WHAT THE F*&^ is wrong with us?! [It'll Be Okay. And You Will Be Too.]

Part 2: The SOLUTION

This is the best answer I got. 

Live your life. Live the life that is yours. Stop trying to control someone else's. Find the ones that you connect with. Include the ones who have struggled to find their 'ones' more than you did. Stop making it about what you have or don't have. We're all morally bankrupt. We're all poor. We're all corrupt because we've ALL let the world forget about the rest of the world. We're all responsible for where we are today. And we're all going to be held accountable. But if we keep blaming each other, blaming things or others that have nothing to do with the hardest problems to solve, we'll never solve them. And the hardest problems to solve are the ones we have with ourselves.

This is how selfish I am... I'm not writing this rant for you. Or for me really. Or because I think I know how to solve the world's problems. I'm writing this rant because all I want is to figure out how to turn it into a compelling story that will captivate people enough on Netflix that they'll watch it - and maybe if I'm lucky, they'll be some nuggets in there about how and why the world is so fucked up that could potentially wake someone up or teach someone something or make them pause or think or reflect in any kind of meaningful way.

But am I lying to myself to think that even that would work to make me feel less empty? To take away the feeling that sits like this vacuous pit inside me? This pit of disappointment in our race - the human race - the only one we have. And our ability to have let it get this far? Despite our technology, our capability, and our capacity to do revelatory good - we've gone off the rails.

So... can we stop? Can we step back from the freneticism of today or tomorrow and step into the reality: we've collectively lost our way and none of us know exactly how to fix it because there's so much crazy and so much extremism and so much pain and so much dogmatic thinking everywhere we look. But we have to start right now. With this moment. We have to begin to teach others that what might feel good in the moment - the best in the moment - is often the most painful in the long run - and that if we can step back from our own psychosis - our own need to avoid our own pain even when it's temporary, we'll be much more capable of seeing the bigger picture. And facing our own demons, our own dissatisfaction with ourselves - and actually managing to come up with some ideas for what to do about it that are likely to be a billion times more effective than blaming our neighbor, our friend, our teacher, the kid at school, the parent of the kid at school, your boss, your government, your spouse, your gay/black/female/Jewish/Chinese/Trans/Mexican/Japanese/Indian/Christian/Tibetan etc... [insert every race, religion gender] whoever - whatever dividing line that isn't real and never was. Because it isn't going to work. Did you hear that? It isn't going to work for you.

It's not their fault. It's not their fault you're in pain. It's not their fault you want someone to blame. It's not their fault you're not where you want to be. But you say -

"IT IS! But it IS! Let me tell you how and why!!!"

To that I say - "Will it get you anywhere? If you tell me the ways you were wronged and by whom - will it solve the problem? What is the path of least resistance to solving your problem? To solving your pain? To solving what you don't have? To solving why you don't have enough? To solving why it hurts you?"

Let's talk about a solution... but I can almost guarantee you, the solution has nothing to do with "them". It has everything to do with you. Look inside first. But how can we ask the world to look inside first when the world has become ALL about what is outside? What everyone else is doing/having/getting/saying/wanting/thinking?

We have to reflect. We can't solve our problems unless we reflect. There is no easy way. There is no one who can do it for you. Step back. Stop blaming everyone else. Ask yourself why you feel so strongly about something - is it because you're scared? Why? Are you scared because it breaks your model of the world? Are you scared because... if you let go of this model of the world - of this particular belief - the one that blames other people - does it mean that the whole way you made sense of the world would be turned upside down? Then that's probably a good thing. Because the sooner you can accept that there is no model, there is no adherence to the way things 'should be' as deemed by you or your God or anyone else - that the world is just other people who love and need love and feel pain and breathe and eat and sleep and shit like you do, the sooner you'll accept that the way you thought things should be was never really real in the first place.

And that all we have is each other. And all we have is our ability to assess what we have and what we don't. And that's how we evolved to the place we're in now - but now that we have evolved- supposedly - it's time for us to move past the greed/fear view of the world. We can't control anything but ourselves. It sucks. But the sooner you can accept it, the sooner you'll realize it's going to be okay. And you will too.