The Truth

This is so relatable!!

Yeah, INFP is the second rarest type so it’s hard to find someone like us, even though it’s kind of our special power to track down other INFPs.

Everyone, including myself and you, wants more. More, more, more, more. We can’t get enough. Through my own logical analysis, I came to a conclusion that this particular problem, this greed, could be the fundamental source of all the problems we have to face today, although it probably applies to most historical problems as well. To make myself clear, I don’t speak of basic human needs, such as the need for water, food, clothing, socializing and a few others. However, I do believe that we already have shifted and delusional expectations and views as to what we really need and what quantity of it do we need. Now, up to this point you all have probably already heard about this, and are taking it as nothing new, but from my own experience just a few of you probably gave it an extra thought and dug deeply enough to realize the actual weight, complexity and seriousness of this specific problem. Deforestation, climate change, world hunger, political issues, animal cruelty, our own ignorance towards these problems. All of these can be traced back to the one and only problem of us never having enough, to you never having enough. It may seem like those problems have nothing in common with our greed, but if you search for those interconnections, hiding under the surface, you’ll eventually find out what i mean.

It’s true that our desire for more had brought us many new inventions and technological progress, it boosted our creativity, made our life easier and improved the society in various ways. However, when seeing all of the negative outcomes, i think it’s a good time to ask whether this “progress” we speak of was worth it. Actually, did the progress really help us? Progress has primarily brought us comfort, and more time to be lazy. Statistically speaking, “progress” has shifted our values and priorities. For example, people in the past have been hunting animals just for their own needs, just to have something to eat, to survive. But, when we look at the people in present, when you look at yourself, you eat when you want, and it’s obvious that you don’t eat just to survive, but for pleasure. As always, there are exceptions, but i guess that most of the people that can afford to read this are not. Now, why did people in the past eat just to survive? Simple, to eat, they had to hunt, they had to work, to spend time. The value of food was incomparably higher back then as it is now, when all we have to do to eat is to go to the store, which mostly doesn’t take more than an hour. This is just a poor example, but this principle can be applied to many, many other aspects of life.

To sum things up, progress is playing entirely just on our emotions. Did progress improve our life? We’d instinctively say yes, like, who wouldn’t want these much options to entertain and pleasure themselves? But did it really? I believe the answer is no, it only improved the impalpable part of our lives. Biologically, we are slowly destroying the circumstances our organism must have in order to survive. This “progress” is slowly killing our future. Just think about it. This is a really controversial example, but that’s exactly why it is such a good example to give you the opportunity to see how unbelievably complex this problem is. The overpopulation problem is caused by medical progress, but in reality, if there was no medical improvement, the probability of those who would live to live in a better world would be significantly higher. Of course, there are many moral and ethical conflicts coming up in this particular field, but I’m speaking solely in my own rational and objective analysis. My main proof of this big flaw in our system is that (for example) everyone knows that going somewhere by car is a big source of pollution, but we still choose to comfort ourselves, our feelings, although in the bigger picture we would help our organism, our physical existence more if we wouldn’t go by car. We are knowingly lowering the chances for our species to survive. And this proves how shifted our perspective of what is good, helpful and important is.

The keystones of this post:

Without reading the whole post you might misunderstand this.

We crossed the limit of what and how much of anything we should want long long ago.

Greed could very possibly be the primary source of all the problems we have to face.

The phenomenon which we call “progress”, is not a progress at all.

Our view of what is good for humanity is completely based on and mainly affected by our feeling of comfort, subjective emotions and laziness.

The most important part - we are knowingly lowering the chances for our species to survive.

The complexity of this problem should not be underestimated, and be sure to think long enough to see it from many perspectives, to have the most objective view possible, and just then argue with me if you’ll feel the need to.

Sorry not sorry for the length of this post.

Cara Delevingne as Margo Roth Spiegelman and Nat Wolff as Quentin Jacobsen in Paper Towns, Dir. Jake Schreier, 2015

"You see how fake it all is. It’s not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It’s a paper town...look at all those cul-de-sacs...Everyone demented with the mania of owning things.

All things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too...I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters."

It’s naive to believe that the most heinous acts in human history, such as the Holocaust or the Atlantic Slave Trade, were the result of hate. While many high ranking Nazis and slave traders were hateful individuals, these events occurred because ordinary citizens allowed them to, and most people were not full of hate for the Jewish or Black community. Rather, I would argue, the citizens of these societies just didn’t care enough to speak out. They were desensitized to the atrocities surrounding them, and just kept up the status quo. In Nazi Germany, people watched their Jewish neighbours get carried away to their certain death because their government said it was right, and why question the government as long as they brought food to the table? During the slave trade, Europeans and Americans were happy to allow human being to be enslaved and treated like animals en masse because it was profitable. They didn’t hate the Black community, it was just easier to dehumanize someone if they looked kind of different. It was never about how different the victims were, but how indifferent the offender were. 

Evil is not a fiery monster rampaging with a heart full of hate, but rather is a cold, heartless machine. However, it’s easy to imagine evil as some racist, n-word using white guy in the Deep South or some militant jihadist in Afghanistan rather than look inside ourselves and ask who we care about and we don’t. What atrocities do we ignore because it’s convenient? Lately, I’ve been shocked by how many people, including me, seem to only be as good as they’re expected to be. We don’t hate anyone, but there’s many people we seem to not care about.