Life turns to shit so easily. We are surrounded by drugs—not just substances, but ideology and materials. Everything is designed to be addictive: social media, shopping apps, work, AI, even the concept of “human future.”
Humans created names for real life, but bad actors utilized these names to build shit that controls people’s minds, fitting perfectly into capitalism. I acknowledge capitalism has its pros, but I see the other side: many people are brain-rotted by this pattern. We benefit from it, yet it corrodes us. What a fucking paradox.
It’s hard to realize what you’re doing when it feels “normal.” You can be a “good guy” in this system and still be unhappy. Why? Because everything you’ve done right is defined by the system. Your identity, satisfaction, and life value depend on Meritocracy. If you stop believing in it, what is the meaning of your life?
The system won’t break. But if you break away from it, what will you do?
You might want to get out, to reform every piece of shit in your life, but you can’t—at least not instantly. You can’t simply exist without the system you’ve lived in for years. You don’t have the ability to create a new world in one shot.
But changing is good. Like in Trainspotting: Choose your life. Choose your software, choose your friends, choose your games. It’s hard, but I believe it’s the only good decision for your own life.
Maybe you’d say, “I have a perfect life in this system. I use meritocracy to get material and mental rewards. I have a big brain to think ahead of anyone.”
Sure, you enjoy the system now. But you’re just using your brain too much. If you stop for a while, you might still feel the same void as me.