I feel you. People are often pretty blind to themselves and admitting that they are part of the broken systems of control (even when they think that they work against it) is painful. The thing is, if anyone ever hopes to have any impact on the way things are they require an awareness of their own part in them.

I don't know what the right answer is but it doesn't take 20/20 vision to see that things are more than a little fucked up in this world. Is it in our nature to be this way? Have we been poisoned by toxic ideologies? Have the oppressors brainwashed the oppressed? Is it greed and corruption or the Illuminati and lizard people? Does the cause matter or is the effect the only thing we should focus on correction?

There are times when I want to take refuge in nihilism because if nothing matters, there is no reason to be upset by them but that is an untennable position for me. Despite my tendency for misanthropy, I tend to be a sympethic person. I don't like seeing suffering regardless of who is suffering and suffering is something there is no shortage of. Usually I end paragraphs like that with a "but" and whatever I think the solution is but I can't here. This is a topic I struggle with myself. I can't seem to find a position that I can consistently stick because one is harmful and the other is painful.

I suppose I am rambling at this point but that is probably a sign that this was a good post if it set off such an intense stream of consciousness in a comment lol.