Fake it till you make it

Fake news, fake wisdom, fake friendliness, fake optimism, fake sincerity, fake friends, fake love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe9B4LdZcDI 

Misconstruction

You have forgotten where we are coming from. We are all the result of exploding stars. Now we are here, forming hierarchies and complaining about the weather.

Harmful ideas

Beliefs and ideas can be as poisonous as heavy metals. Nazism poisoned German minds in the 1930s; religious beliefs are poisoning fundamentalist Muslims in the Middle East and evangelical Christian Trump supporters in the US. You can also be poisoned by personal beliefs. You can, for example, be deeply convinced that you are a loser, a slob, or a superior human being. We can become deeply convinced of many things. 

So, how do you remove heavy metals and venomous ideas from your brain? Meditation, celery juice, and modern psychotherapy will obviously not cut it.

Insight

I'm stupid. I can't even explain how my cell phone works. I can't play any musical instrument, I can't sing, and I can't draw. My writing ability is minimal. Without the spell check, I wouldn't be able to write anything intelligible at all in English, because English is not my native language.

My subconscious mind is unreliable. I am usually very unfocused, and I often get caught up in daydreams and negative thoughts. I would probably score high on a neuroticism test.

My life is OK, though. I get by. I shouldn't complain. The vast majority of people who have ever lived through the history of civilization have lived horrible lives. They have been slaves, serfs, cheap labor, cannon fodder in idiotic wars, always hungry, suffering from painful diseases. I really should be grateful.

10-15% of the general population today has some kind of personality disorder, 6% are clinically depressed, and more than 50% are overburdened and stressed out.

I really ought to be happy.

Change

If you experience a mystic synchronicity or some kind of spontaneous telepathic phenomenon you will probably become greatly surprised. It will make you wonder about the nature of reality. You may ponder over this for years. However, nothing much in your everyday life will change. Your bad habits and endless daily chores will continue. A fundamental life-changing experience requires something much stronger. You have to hit rock bottom, I suppose. You have to face death.

Pessimism

The world has always been a mess: horrific wars, slavery, poverty, diseases, pain, religious oppression, psychopathic kings, emperors, warlords, and presidents...

Well, there have also been small patches of peace, love, and optimism here and there, at times, for a lucky few, but the overall situation has always been horrible.

Pantheism

Everything is real, everything exists in this universe: atoms and electrons, galaxies and stars, fantasies and dreams, delusions and lies, consciousness and ego, deceit and deceptions, love and fear, cats and dogs, viruses and bacteria, escapes and sin, synchronicities, and NDEs...

You select which subjects you find interesting, like a kid in a toy store.