Perception of the world

• My experience of the world feels unique/personal to me but is very similar to a lot of other people (every single human being/mammal to some extent)
• What I see in the external world/how I experience the external world is completely dependent on my mind! For example when I was 7 & first came to London – it enthralled me. Now if I go there (Baker Street), I feel depressed & miserable. The actual street hasn’t changed but my mind has.
• Growing up to realise that nothing is as glamorous as it once seemed. I remember I was still so naive when I went to New York. I was like “woah, look at all these tall buildings, big roads & glamour”. Now I fully well that its not heaven on earth, but I still had that childish sense of false awe! → Keeping yourself young & youthful for as long as possible is worthwhile. The life will slowly drain out of me as I age & my body becomes frail.
• As a child you think that the world is simple. As an adult you realise that its very complicated & you don’t know anything (the more you know the more you realise how little you know!)

“Happiness” is all in the mind.None of my teenage dreams have materialised

• I don’t have some great amount of freedom – I haven’t shunned my parents. I am living at home with them.
• I am not greatly famous, very rich & have bitches all over me.
• I don’t feel as invincible & made of steel as I used to

This whole “happily ever after” is complete & utter bs. There is no such thing – you have to put in constant effort to sustain & maintain.
• X individual: “Moved to the US, life is set”.
• So, & so went this uni or works at JP Morgan therefore his life is set. Utter bollocks – to keep his job the poor sod has to work 80hrs a week. He’s worse off than you.
Life is a constant struggle. Conflict is ever-present. There is no such thing as an ideal world/time in future/place.
America has to do a lot to maintain its geopolitical influence. If I sat around passively, it’d quickly get eroded away.
The only thing you don’t have to put in effort to sustain & maintain wisdom, experience & knowledge. That’s permanent. That’s the aim of my life.
Happiness (an emotional state) comes & goes – that can’t possibly be a worthwhile aim.

Life just doesn’t stop. Everyday I have to reach to something new → No such thing as a day off. It never stops. → There is no idealistic or perfect time in the future. The modern world has its pros & cons over hunter gatherer times. For the example the Internet allows me access to a such a vast storehouse of information vs hunter gatherer times (in Technology Revolution as proposed by Ted Kacynzski) or pre Internet when maybe face to face communication was higher. Point being that there was never & never will be an idealistic time in human history. Each era has had its own pluses & minuses & human beings have survived through it all.

You’d think that or you are told that: “people will learn from history” → But why is that the case? When you are born, you are fresh & raw into the world. You know nothing about the conditions endured by former human beings, in fact you don’t know the conditions other human beings are living in right now e.g. hunger, pollution, slavery

• Humans today behave similarly to humans 20,000 years ago. Sure the man made world is far more complex, there are more human inventions such as light, electricity, chairs, clothes & modern humans are building upon the work of former human beings i.e. even in society such as abolishing slavery → but humans are still humans → No baby knows what WW2 is, dinosaurs existed, what living conditions were like 200 years ago or there is a rainforest in Brazil that’s shrinking in size over the past few years!
• Take me on an individual level. I have learnt from my subjective past history – but I haven’t learnt anything from human history. → It interests me & I read about it. That’s really it. I don’t apply that knowledge to my life in any practical way.

Growing up you thought that life was about ruling the world – having your name everywhere & having infinite fame & recognition. Everyone sucking your dick. World domination. → Real maturity has proved to be letting go off the ego. Realising that you aren’t all that, no one is going to remember you after you die, there have been billions that have come & gone like yourself. What a relief. → & its all been a personal journey & a personal revelation. No one in the world has come told me that it has to be this way – I have discovered it all myself
I am just another man. I don’t use the word average because that implies comparison. I am not comparative. Absolutely nothing special about me.
If there’s one thing that I have learnt as I have gotten older, its that what you see superficially is always deceiving.
“Rich” people don’t have perfect lives/aren’t role models necessarily/something I aspire for per se, people have a certain outward personality due to their MBTI but their introverted functions are hidden, “hot”/good looking girls aren’t better human beings than less endowed girls. Also people’s actions are far, far more relevant than their words. Actions speak far louder than words.
Nature is absolutely brutal e.g. crocodiles & hyenas eating their prey alive. Nature isn’t subject to human conscience. Hyenas & crocodiles perceive the world differently to human beings! à Just like ESTJs perceive the world different to INTPs
Nature also isn’t subject to human understanding. I think by definition that makes it hard for human beings to understand the Universe – I think that human intelligence has its limitations. For example, cows or tigers will never reach a point where they’ll comprehend that Earth is round & orbits the sun. Similarly, there are things in nature & about the Universe that the current species of human beings may never be intelligent enough to comprehend – they’ll forever remain blind to these truths.
Human beings may be the most intelligent animals but other species have other strengths which human beings don’t have. For example, wolves have a far better senses of smell.
The reality is that everyone alive right now – given that the oldest person alive is from 1904, has never lived in historical times → Therefore one can research, study & learn about history or evolutionary theory but no one can experience it. No one alive right now has been around for it – they can only know the world they have inherited from their ancestors i.e. the 20^th century & the 21^st

Yes I am spot on. There is so much about the Earth & Universe that is beyond human perception → Human beings understand that other species are incapable of perceiving the world like human beings do e.g. pigs & cows don’t understand that the Earth is round & a Universe exists. → Similarly a more intelligent species will be able to realize our limitation.
I am just one little monkey on a small planet in a massive Universe. I think that there is so much that lies beyond human perception – & we can never find out what it is because it is beyond our perception.
Its crazy that people born now inherit the world & they don’t know what it was like during hunter gatherer times because human infrastructure covers the whole planet.

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