Why we feel bad.

1.  It serves capitalism for us to feel bad. Women are particularly targeted; just go to a mall and you'll see that 90% of it is aimed at women (even the men's departments). We shop, eat, watch TV, drink, all to try to feel better, and none of it works. The shopping is about us thinking that if we buy this outfit or that makeup, then men (people) will like us better and maybe that'll finally make us happy.  Capitalism does not want us to live in the moment or be happy.  The system would fail otherwise.

2.  This is a weakness of our human mind that is exploited by the practice of Capitalism because most people are not honorable or empathetic. Changing the Capitalist system will do no good unless you manage to get people to change their hearts. This is what Jesus tried to do, (and Buddha and many others) but his message was once again co-opted and perverted by the slave owners and business owners and kings and queens. It is the slave owners and business owners that want you to feel bad. It is those individual people that are discounting your pain in order to enrich themselves. Don't blame a philosophical system for the meanness and selfishness of opportunists.

 But you are correct in that America wants you to feel bad. That is how we train horses -- We "break their spirit."  That is the same thing the education system, the government and the business owners want to do to you -- "Break your spirit."  They want a society of  "broken little automatons" that roll over and die at age 65 once their economic usefulness has been exploited. But again, this is the actions of individual hateful, mean spirited, and ignorant people. It is the people that are the problem. It is the weakness of the human mind to function effectively in a deceitful and complex society that is the problem.

Friedrich Nietzsche discusses this concept in his book "Twilight of the Idols" in Chapter 6 and 7. In particular his examination of the Law of Manu (from Hinduism) is used to highlight the fact that the ruling classes consciously make unhealthful life environment for their slaves and subordinates so that THEY (the rulers) can maintain wealth and control. THIS is why unhealthful behaviors are promoted in the USA American media as being "cool" -- to keep the lower classes in their place. Alcohol, Crack cocaine, Heroin, marijuana, Oxy Cotin, Cigarettes, Eating Hamburgers, Eating Ice cream, Eating cheese, Eating steaks, Having unprotected sex, Prostitution, Driving Fast, Getting into fights. These behaviors are ALL promoted by the ruling class to keep the worker class in debt and "in line."

It is up to you to take back your life from the slave owners and overlords.  No one else will do it for you.  I am rooting for you and I give you my heart.



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William Schaeffer
Lee Crowe