Why do humans make life so complicated? What is the underlying purpose in making life more complicated than it is? Why do humans create fear, division, & other unpleasantries regarding life?
It is really a powerplay. Humans love to create fear, division, & other unpleasantries to gain & exercise power. Power is behind the intricacies of human behavior. It begins in the family environment where parents have control. There are parents who use fear, division, & other forms of social dynamics to control their household. Children who conform are rewarded while those who don't are made outcasts. From the home, it proceeds to the educational system & then the workplace.
... you talk about parents. What about the saying, "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world?"
what if women ruled the world ...
or do they rule the world?
My other question is, are people today more gentle because they were more mothered? or more callous because they were less mothered?
... or is this line of inquiry politically incorrect?
After reading the thread, I see you have already answered your own question. I would like to expand upon the notion of "power" though, and say that it is a misunderstanding, and subsequent misuse of power that causes the suffering. Most people do not realize that instant gratification is not power, it is weakness.
One can find power anywhere they go if they misuse it at every turn. Shoot someone and you have the power to end lives, bully someone and you have the power to control their emotions, post a biting article or piece of information that destroys one, or multiple lives in a single day... all of this is the misuse and misunderstanding of power. The uneducated, the slow, those who refuse to pull themselves from their own misery favor this form of power; those same individuals are why the world suffers incessantly.
Real power, self-serving power in its truest, purest, most-refined forms serves everyone who orbits the individual in power. Real power is long-term, it is unarguable, and it does not ring true with any idealism nor misguided ideas of gratification in the short-term at the expense of future gains. People who turn from power are the ones we should fear most, because they would see you lose any form of power in the long-term for their own false sense of security.
So, to answer your question concisely, it is not all humans who make the misery of life what it is, but it is the uneducated, spiteful majority. We all know how sweet it is to spite your enemy, even martyr yourself to do so, but we also know the bitterness of powerlessness it brings in the long-term. If we could all measure things in long-term gains versus their short-term consequences, we would never dwell ignorantly on the concept of power being bad.
( ... by the way, those eyes are the same eye.)
To answer the question, I would say that money, power and a self-serving focus is the reason for all the trouble in the world. It is one thing to find happiness by serving others and it is another thing entirely to try to find happiness by serving oneself only.
One way to find joy in life is to help others.
The other way never seems to work.
I agree with Kathryn hill. I think we human beings are selfish humans and need to be taught to serve others.
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