Perspective Reevaluation

Feeling a little discouraged with the human race today

For the longest time, I wanted to believe the world was good. Life was good. People were good. These past few weeks, I am starting to think that people are like sheep. They are week, profit driven, and stupid.

We have polluted our world and continue to do so recklessly.

We allow greedy corporations to brainwash us as they peddle their cancerous goods, and we just keep supporting them.

Please ... tell me I'm wrong. Show me that people are smarter and are not as foolish as I think they are. The notion that humans are fully aware that the sugary, nitrate laden foods they are eating will bring them health problems, and the continue to not only consume them, but promote them to others ... that's insane.  It can't be true ... it's unfathomable to me that people are that stupid.

Is this really the world we live in? Cancer ... heart disease ... diabetes ... obesity ... just because we want to "enjoy" life ... because it tastes good and dammed be the consequences?

We are willing to sacrifice everything for the selfish pleasures afforded to us by the death merchants? We are just standing here, smiling and swallowing this bitter pill?

Please tell me I am wrong. I refuse to believe that people can be that stupid.

I WANT TO BE A HAPPY, POSITIVE PERSON. How can I be a happy, positive person with the knowledge that there are so many people in the world making poor decisions?

Now, I know the big, greedy corporations are mainly responsible for this. They go to any and all lengths to keep the profits rolling in ... despite the consequences to OUR health ... but still, the notion that we continue to allow them to keep doing this to us ... I am having great difficulty consolidating all of this.

Yes ... we are creatures of habit. Yes ... we get in our comfortable grooves and it's easier - simpler to just keep doing what we've been doing. But I can't believe that once armed with the knowledge of what is healthy and what is not, we are so weak that we just keep allowing these destructive things to pollute our bodies and our world.

It is killing our friends and loved ones ... it is preventable and ridiculous ...

People continue to normalize these sugary, deep fried, unhealthy treats every day ... everywhere. Fat and happy ... many of us justify our excess weight with cutesy posters trying to glorify the excess weight, with no mention of health. We post food porn on FaceBook & Pinterest, share recipes to further spread the garbage everywhere possible ...

Refined white sugar, genetically modified gluten filled wheat, processed nitrate laden meats ... we keep eating them and even celebrating them, even though they are as harmful as cigarettes ...

Is ignorance bliss? Is the key to happiness the ability to stay sleeping in that numbness our society has become? Am I to simply disregard these injustices and carry on as if all was well and good?

Is the problem free will? Perhaps the answer lies in more legislation ... obviously people are not strong enough or smart enough to make smarter choices ...

Our greedy, profit driven world has produced cancer, disease, pain and misery ... and yet most of just keep right on doing what we've always been doing.

I DON'T LIKE WHAT I SEE HERE.