An insanely sick society…we are all lubitzes..

this is as surreal it can get. a plane load of passengers hurtling towards certain death in minutes. nothing to do but wail away. say prayers...think of loved ones...death is a certainty for all in its own time...except here...someone has decided by choice to take lives of 149 people with his own.

there have been innumerable incidents where one deranged person takes the life of many. these demented people want to go out in a blaze taking many with them. maybe it gives them a sense of power or maybe they like being together with many at their end to feel that they are not alone. we have indeed reached a surreal inflexion in human mind history.

this can pan out in so many ways....train and bus drivers...policemen going rogue...so far all loved seeing these in movies or reading in books only...but now it’s for real...already in most places these have become recurring themes.......schoolboys,,, psychotics…loners and so on...with guns being so easy to get...mass shootouts like mass hysteria ....terrorists are also in the same category...love for dying with many....surreal ….no it’s a high surreal….magnified...multifold…manifold options of the the root cause of most of these happening is depression. It is gradually taking a stranglehold over the global population. As society becomes more complex and has greater threshold values for success, etc, many are not able to cope with these insane norms of a society which is run on similar insane principles. These drop outs become depressed. Again depression is very difficult to diagnose. Many of them are intelligent and are able to camouflage their depression well.

but if we truly introspect…at a deeper and fundamental level…we are all murderers…murder need not culminate from the barrel of a gun…or bombs…or a crashing plane…murder can take on so many insidious hues…murder which can kill silently and slowly over time…sometimes taking decades…take the life of its victims…slowly…as deliberately…in that sense we are all lubitzes…and hitlers…all of us are contributing to mass genocide in the most gentle and indirect ways…killing them softly…

if we all analyse all the so called sane and non murderous activities in the world…on the surface most of them seem like human friendly and value creating…innocuous..almost humane..maybe even kind…the milk of human kindness…but the list is indeed endless….and all of us are directly or indirectly involved in these industries / activities (of mass doom and annihilation) …as either perpetrators or victims or both…..by using then…enjoying their benefits….

1.      Food industry: where antibiotics, hormones, steroids are pumped into cattle, poultry; fertilizers, pesticides, hybrid disease resistance genetically modified seeds are uses for cereals, fruit, vegetables; chemicals, lurid colours; cancer inducing foods like GMO cereals, refined sugar and flour, diet foods, hydrogenated oils, processed grain fed meats, microwave popcorn, grilled charred meats, farmed fish.

2.      Carbon emitting entities like ACs, fossil fuel, fridges, cars…

3.      Armaments industry, weapons of mass destruction, guns….

4.      Plastics…

5.      Alcohol, heroin….the former is legally acceptable though it has the most harmful threshold.  

6.      Urbanisation…which is energy intensive…

7.      Religions which spread hatred, terror

8.      Modern lifestyles…which are comfort seeking…and again energy, technology, internet intensive…

9.      Healthcare industry which in the name of health is actually exploiting the patients and sucking money out of the system

10.    Capitalism with its insane profit motive which is forever replacing labour by machines..and creating a large under privileged class…

11.    Hyper competition…for survival…excess capacity…giving birth to dying companies, industries….unemployment…

12.    Entertainment industry which insidiously plants the seeds of wanting to become like the celluloid characters…forever reaching out towards a lifestyle which is vapid…meaningless….

So basically all of us subscribe to values, products, lifestyles, aspirations, gadgets, consumer durables, transport systems…the list goes on…which are inherently detrimental to the healthy future of the human race…all of us are mass murderers and rapists…carrying out genocide….killing mother earth…and the future of our children…

Its indeed a very sick society we are part of. Hence in a way depression is perhaps a much more widespread malaise than most of us can ever imagine. It’s like two time bombs are ticking close to each other…human madness and mad society created by humans…both are intertwined…feeding upon each other…a most toxic and malevolent combination indeed…. 

indeed depression is the new normal....we all love it in so many ways...wallowing in it is the new enjoyment....like zombies we all need our daily fixes of modern societies...wonder toys..gadgets..amazing varieties of food which melts in our mouths.....oral gratification...cars...speed...adrenaline....one large composite drug...how we love watching the murder thrillers...violent games on screens...indeed mass murder instincts are wired within each of us....