I agree with your statement, “Our society is designed to treat us like cogs in a huge profiting machine for the elite. Even our financial system is designed in such a way there is always more debt than there is money. Coping in this society is unnatural and hard.” There is a better way.

My thoughts on this are that the school environment does indeed lead to vision problems in the vulnerable, like what happened to me, compounded by a letter from one of my teachers to my parents telling them to take me to an optician with inevitable prescription of glasses whose lenses steadily got thicker over the following years. It is interesting though that some of us remain immune to had vision habits developed during school years

It has been said that once the Inuit, who traditionally had very good sight at all ages, got into contact with civilization and told their kids had to go to school, many of the kids quickly became myopic and had glasses fitted. I can’t verify this story absolutely but I think it is true.

So it shows that in spite of the artificial nature of our lives, and being like dancing bears all too often, it is still hopefully possible to relax through good mind/vision habits and attain some degree of serenity.

Dr. λ, I don’t disagree. And since I choose to live in this society with its restrictions, I spend a significant amount of time alone where I can do what I please, and also a significant amount of time outdoors where I feel freer and less restricted, with fewer demands on me. Resenting What Is is wasting my energy, so I continue to find coping skills, and activities and thoughts I enjoy. Thanks for your thoughts.

School is very unnatural. It forces energetic curious children to sit still and focus on only boring mostly irrelevant stuff all day.

Then comes work which is also very unnatural. I sometimes feel like a bear who is made to dance on coals since I am being forced into unnatural behaviour.

The system is designed to be against the people, and coping is such a system is hard and requires thought. Our health and happiness do not come automatically to us here even though they would in nature (that is if we were born in nature, many people have been tamed much like pets to not be able to survive in nature anymore).

Darrel, yes, the more I think about it, and the more I observe my reactions when I get overwhelmed now, the more I think this dynamic is behind my restricted vision as a child. I’m so glad I have better coping strategies than I did then!

Turning off the cell not to be irritated by incoming spam sounds like a great idea.

Darrel