there are some things that everyone simultaneously knows and acts in spite of
and we live in a world where pointing these things out gets you labeled as a try-hard
it's ***** in a bucket syndrome

the ***** instinctively bring each other down
because competition is all they know
cooperation is foreign to them because they are scavengers
most people are scavengers

you've got the scientists and engineers bringing truth down to earth and making meat of it, you've got the market cooking that meat and packaging it, and you've got the investors deciding which meat is the best and which meat to make more of but also eating most of the meat in the process of making that decision

the rest of society just gets the scraps
so anyone who wants a better life is seen as a try-hard, someone to be competed with and brought down

it's a brilliant system developed and implemented by the rich investors to keep the middle and lower classes fighting amongst ourselves over whose scraps are less filthy instead of claiming the meat for ourselves
or better yet putting our efforts towards turning more truth into more meat

but, because of their intention to keep things as they are, and despite the fact that most people are very aware of this
pointing it out gets you labeled a conspiracy theorist, or a crank or something.
you don't get to both speak truth and be taken seriously.

no one cares because they were brought up not to care

it intrigues me that the truth can be shunned in the first place
those who know the truth should be praised
like why isn't that how it actually works

people are extremely stupid jealous creatures with no vision

WHY
IT HURTS

the majority of people are little better than animals but we must live among them because we have no other company
we keep things this way because the alternative is loneliness and that's even worse
that's why we all pretend
we're afraid no one will follow us off the path laid down by those more fortunate.
we choose company over truth and humans always have.
we are not simply being pulled back into the bucket
we're hesitating to put our full effort towards climbing out of the bucket
because while we're in the bucket at least we're not alone
outside the bucket, who knows? most people haven't even seen over the edge of the bucket.
what if everyone spreads out and becomes lonely out there?
suffering is a common experience which people can bond over. the relationships among the upper class are strained and artificial because they have far less in common with each other than people like us do with each other
they're in an even bigger bucket
but their bucket is one they built themselves, by choice
the bucket called earth, they killed the interest in interstellar space travel
now no one at all gets to leave
we will fill the bucket with excrement and ***** and we will all drown together

and the lord said let there be light. and he saw that it was good.

amen.