“None Of Them Knew They Were Robots”

(Title Stolen From, Yet Unrelated to, Mr. Bungle)

You probably don’t deserve to be happy. Happiness is a lot like health; some are born with it in abundance – most however, aren’t so lucky. The only one’s who truly deserve it though, are those who work to get and maintain it.

Most of us wander through life half-asleep. Victims of the programming from both our quickly evolving societies and our slowly evolving brains. If we don’t realize this we’re just meat-machines, mindlessly going through the commotions.

There’s a lot of shit wrong with us, and with the world, hiding from it only allows things to get worse. Conversely, wallowing in all the negatives and ignoring the beauty that’s out there overwhelms and paralyzes. Like in everything, finding our balance is key. “

There is no difference between the pessimist who says, ‘Oh, it’s hopeless, so don’t bother doing anything,’ and the optimist who says, ‘Don’t bother doing anything, it’s going to turn out fine anyway.” Either way, nothing happens.” ~ Yvon Chouinard.

Knowing how we work; our brain-meats individually and our ridiculously large bald-ape tribes collectively, lets us to see the patterns we’re stuck in, and helps us decide if breaking them is worth the effort. Knowledge can be the slap in the face that helps wake us.

When Socrates was found guilty of corrupting the youth with his ‘heresy’ and given the choice between death and a life unable to philosophize with the rest of the tribe, he decided, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”