Total Burn-Out, Part 1

I've been feeling this way for some time now, so here you have it, served up warm.

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[seaslipper1]

Curious, what religious background is your family?

[TheLogicJunkie]

My parents were educated in Methodist and Mennonite schools, and then they took me to Presbyterian churches for awhile growing up.

[RLviddy]

The common good is indeed being continually subjugated to the needs of the few. It's completely inside out. That creates all the loneliness, the anxiety, the depersonalization, etc. etc. etc.

[TheLogicJunkie]

That's exactly right -- we've all been dehumanized into being inferior "widgets" that only exist to aid in the psychopathically narcissistic and immature schemes of the Bilderberg Uber-brats.

[sanitary103]

so true man..very very well said...the daily grind of life is hitting harder and harder and i'm only 29

[marinello6]

I wish you were my brother.

[missunbounded]

Come to Hawaii were people do nothing but relax! lol Come into the light and the sun (-: It is hard to be lonely here. I can't get out of the grocery store without running into six different people. And here... it is amazing... you can strike up a conversation on the city bus and people will talk to you and not think you are crazy!

[b45100]

I am so glad that I found a person like you. I can so relate to you and I have a whole story under my belt. People always want to blame the individual and not society. If you talk about these problems people say you have to be more confident, sociable and friendly. When the truth is that the society is very sick and makes you a conformist.

[WJValente]

Most people don't like to hear another persons depressing and cynical thoughts, but I completely AGREE with everything you say and if that makes me a cynic then I guess I am a cynic. We DO live in one fucked up dehumanized, mechanized, and materialistic playground of endless work and toil, consumption and "growth". It's pathetic.

[WildAxe07]

I am feeling with you my friend. Its really a pity that we are measured only with performance and having money. Dehumanized machines, thats it... now I want to break out somehow, don*t exactly know how but time will show.

[FragileButFree]

@MRTEL7777 I think you have it backwards...living to work is what dehumanizes you and takes all the joy out of life. Working to live, on the other hand, implies that your job is something you do just to pay bills and don't give up your life for it.

[TheAwakian]

us as busy as possible and separated from our emotionally close human beings.

[TheAwakian]

> worker that doesn't really give a damn about what we do in our later lives and gets emotional pleasure from giving us this hostile advice when it comes to making food and standing in front of the kitchen while we clean everything up at the end of the day -- really reminds me of this impulsive, power-hungry fear vampire of a sado-masochistic circle. Absolutely minimal emotion, more 'professional approach' to things.

[Kinlywarlock]

it is a very impersonal society... people do not show their hearts and compassion for other humans anymore. I've been on the end of the stick where for wanting to show my emotions for a woman and she looked at as being crazy or mental just because I wanted to express my undying gratitude and love for her because I knew her for so long... at least I though I knew. Why must humanity hide behind their social masks, once you show your heart to them, they hide behind it.

[seaslipper1]

So one gets depressed because the world is pretty much hopeless. As much as you wonderfully challenge your society and your schooling, which is its primary instrument of control, you are still a product of it if you remain the secular man. I'm not promoting Christianity or anything like that, just suggesting a spiritual approach of some kind.

[MRTEL7777]

LIVE TO WORK NOT WORK TO LIVE.