From The Objector:
Is the deep, gnawing disconnect that many of us feel a result of contemporary societal pressures, from our economic and political structures, or is it an innate feature of human experience?
It seems specious to rely on either to fully account for experience.
Buddhists claim that dukkha, which translates to suffering or dissatisfactoriness, best indicates the human condition. I would not hesitate to disagree with that analysis, but we should, for the moment, put aside metaphysics for, shall we say, an examination of our political reality. And it really is a reality of which I speak, because our structures of consciousness absorb political and economic ideologies, often subconsciously.
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