Damien Reflects

Tag: philosophy

  • On Authentic Human Connection

    On Authentic Human Connection:

    The internet has been around for decades and we have witnessed it develop to its full potential. Connecting billions of people, and giving us complete access to everything the heart desires while simultaneously alienating our entire species from each other. The reasons for this are many partly due to our capitalist society also innate human desire and information overload.

    In recent weeks with my heightened popularity among people on the internet, I have witnessed my self absorbed desire to see larger like count numbers and hearts on my stories grow. The question thus arises to what extent do I sacrifice my own identity in the name of a bigger like count? And what must I do to see that like count?

    Truth is, I have sacrificed a good bit of my identity to satisfy the innate desire for a dopamine rush through human acceptance, and while it does fill that appetite, the void of emptiness and hollowness remains. By being a businessman or media star you are selling your soul to be a puppet to human pyschology and desire, i.e telling people what they want to hear.

    I have 890 friends, but at the same time I have no friends. How many of them do I speak to regulary? Do we connect on a personal level? Is the time devotion equal? All the answers to those questions are deeply scary to think about.

    Every time you see the smile of someone on their yacht, surrounded by people and living this apparent on the surface life of luxury, the question must be raised is the yacht a rental, are the “friends” really friends and is the smile genuine.

    Genuine friends are rare and become more and more infrequent as the internet through its social media, dating apps and information makes us all desire something more or better. We do not realize that “better” is subjective and may not really exist, we unknowingly lost true happiness and live a lie.

    The art of friendships and relationships is something that is becoming more automated, less authentic and more a matter of pure sexual and financial appeal. Our capitalist system and innately part of ourselves have a tendency to dwell and breathe self-constructed misery.

    Human power comes from knowledge and the ability to change, our tendency to sway to less authentic human connection is one that is becoming more discussed as mental health becomes a more serious problem. The question then is, do we have what it takes to change the way we view human connection?

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  • Handling Change

    Recent thoughts: On Pressure and Change in Contemporary Societies

    It has been about a couple weeks since I last typed out my thoughts for the internet to consume. Summer final exams and finding a summer job took a pretty large toll on me. As is habit, my mind tends to find itself in the darkest potential corners meandering on the void of despair. Out of those trials and tribulations arises the necessity for change, the personal analysis, philosophy, and understanding of human aspiration comes full fold.

    There is a popular saying in the self-care sphere of influence that states “fundamental human change, and reflection can only occur under real pressure.” This phenonema is needless to say an aspect of our fundamental reality, that we can all observe as a part of daily experience.

    The scale of pressure, and desire to change can mount from personal struggles to societal phenomena of core socioeconomic factors. To give examples, the people you know (perhaps yourself) who are in a constant struggle to end smoking due to the fact the pressure on the faculties of the mind have not yet reached that breaking point, an eery similarity can simultaneously be applied to our political sphere where conditions often worsen, and worsen till it reaches an extreme breaking point where a mass movement is mobilized. It is often wondered how it is we need to reach such “extremes” to fundamentally do something to improve our lives for the better.

    When in the presence of other human beings, I often find myself in a sense of awe of the needless pain they push themselves through. It is a case of truly following mass suicide by repeating the actions of other people.

    Human tradition is specifically marked by human beings who are in a state of refusal to adapt to the newer and superior methods of cultural, and social development. These people will consume poison into their blood, and work hard for no return all for the purpose of woefully refusing to embrace the contemporary means of their time.

    Our time is one in which “traditional values” are in direct conflict with the ambition to eradicate fossil fuels, increase bodily autonomy, and increase socioeconomic freedoms of our species. Conservative minded individuals fear change irrationally due to the fact that with developed habit, that one lived their life by it is difficult to let it go.

    Humans by their very nature are plagued by jealousy, by growing up in the 1970s-1980s America, where abortions were frowned upon, the nuclear family was the dominant social functon, and there was still an enigma to the potentiality of interracial relationships, there exists a natural fear to knowing your generation was denied certain liberties.

    It is common for older women who were socially plugged into the roles of housewives to see their daughters doing the things they were denied or unconscious of during their childhoods, and adulthood. They become envious of their daughters, and seek an unconscious form of retribution. Jealousy is very tough weapon.

    The family in the 21st century, is correctly being expanded in form and definition to illustrate more than the mere existence of the nuclear family as a consequence of the industrial revolution.

    The human species is painfully slow at overcoming its downfalls, and is often the cause of its own problems. Man’s arrogance, lust, and desire for “sameness” are the causes for the human species ever ending spiraling controversies.

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