Western Discrimination Will Destroy the World Pt. 1
How typical Western thought will lead to the world's downfall.

The only โlogicalโ endpoint for a society based on division, is destruction. When you separate parts from the whole, then pat yourself on the back for โspecializingโ, you have planted and watered the seed for your own destruction.
People feel a sense of pride from dividing themselves further and further from the collective. People do this to prop up their own sense of confidence. This confidence results from feeling unique because they arenโt like everybody else. But this is a false sense of confidence, derived from a misunderstanding as to what matters in life.
From Range, by David Epstein:
โHighly specialized health care professionals have developed their own versions of โif all you have is a hammer, eveything looks like a nailโ problem. Interventional cardiologists have gotten so used to treating chest pain with stents โ metal tubes that pry open blood vesssels-that they do so reflexively even in cases where voluminous research has proven they are inappropriate or dangerous. A recent study found that cardiac patients were actually less likely to die if they were admitted during a national cardiology meeting, when thousands of cardiologists were away; the researchers suggested it could be because common treatments of dubious effect were less likely to be performed.โ
These doctors increased specialization led them to an intellectual arrogance that hurt the people entrusted with their care. This parallel can be seen over and over again throughout American society.
Another story from this book details how banks' lack of communication between specialized departments ended up causing homelessness for many families. One part of the bank would lower payment, then another part of the bank noticed the family was paying less, so they declared them in default and seized the home. The lack of communication between specialized departments and the inability to know how one decision affected the whole picture, led to the unjust removal of these families.
Without acknowledgment of how parts relate to the whole, there is a stunning lack of respect for the natural order. When everything is meant to work together for the greater good, when every act affects natureโs balance, the western obsession with separation has led us to our doom.
Western doctors treat the human body as a collection of disparate parts through a mechanical medical system that ignores the brainโs effects on overall wellbeing. They treat the collective body, the general population, as a group to be taken advantage of and mistreated, dividing society amongst arbitrary lines created out of the desire to divide and conquer and attempt to one-up the natural order that is unity.
The story of Adam and Eve parallels the discriminatory nature of Western thought. Their willingness to listen to lies and eat the fruit of knowledge put a discriminatory idea in their minds. Whereas previously they were happy simply leading their God-given lives, after eating the fruit, they realized they were naked. They judged their nakedness as bad and clothed themselves.
If you take this story literally, this is the earliest instance of man separating themselves from the divine blessing that is nature, through discrimination, โlogicโ, through dualistic thinking. Western thought obsesses over seemingly making advancements by dividing concepts into smaller and smaller boxes. All the while, further losing the intimate knowledge that everything and everyone is part of a whole.
The toxic individualism Western thought breeds, the dualistic thinking that is capitalism's foundation and which it champions as โrightโ, is leading to the very downfall of America and the world. Quite frankly, there was never any other way it was going to end.
When your society is based around personal ambition that becomes abject greed, your economic system is based on taking advantage of as many people as possible in order to personally profit, when your political system is based around division and binary thought, champions a spirit of arguing, is buoyed the idea of a win at all costs, regardless of the lives lost in translation, your destruction is guaranteed.
People donโt acknowledge us all being linked together by sharing the same time and space in history and act accordingly, in a selfish and nonthinking matter. Many people define themselves only in comparison to others. They can only gain a sense of self from relation to concepts and ideas blindly followed.
When we limit the awesome scope of the individual, an individual who has infinite potential, to such flimsy and unsatisfactory lines of division, is there any wonder why so many people are deeply unhappy in civilizations that champion Western โlogicโ aka dualism?
With no focus on contributing to the greater good, or even worse, buying the lie that abject greed and selfishness contribute to the greater good, Western thought poisons the very roots of its civilization, the people. People are interested in becoming billionaires, a group whose reinvestment into the greater good, whether the public or the planet, is exponentially less than what they extract. Billionaires profit off public goods and work and hoard these profits selfishly. Somehow, this is a worthy goal for nearly everyone in Western society.
Western โlogicโ divides the human race across color lines, sexual lines, gender lines, and cultural lines, then asks why our society canโt generate enough collective energy to take serious steps to hold these robber barons accountable. Robber barons enabled by greedy government officials more focused on profiting from their place in politics, than actually serving the public they were elected by.
The power of the people has been scattered by dualistic thinking, that eagerness to separate from the whole. This leads to being blind to the overarching issues our planet and its people face. This idea of โgood for me, good for everybodyโ or โgood for me, I donโt care about everybodyโ will lead us to our doom. On a worldwide scale.
These robotic and inhuman methods of thinking that form the very basis of Western thought, have poisoned the world, literally, figuratively, spiritually, in every aspect of life imaginable. The worship of money and the excuse of any underhanded trick to secure it, lead people down the path of callousness. When the concept of the greater good is invoked, it is only a lie put forth to trick citizens into following underhanded leaders.
The Westโs desire to be different is apparent. From the English language to American measuring systems, it's apparent that even if an arbitrary separation might cause mass confusion, it's seen as โbetterโ because of the fact that it's โdifferentโ. It doesnโt matter if, upon closer inspection, it doesnโt make sense.
America is so young in the grand scheme of civilization and so obsessed with presenting an air of superiority, that it will make the lives of its citizens worse in order to project this superior attitude that is rooted in godlessness. Overall, God forsook this country long ago and probably was never truly present.
When a country is founded because of a money dispute, espousing the ideas of freedom while employing slavery, and as it develops, shows a willingness to further divide its people by its racial, economic, and religious rhetoric, it was never chosen by God in the first place. It was chosen by the forces of evil to disseminate its evil messaging throughout the world and bring the end of the modern world as we know it today.
When I read about Buddhism, I canโt help but think about how restricting Western thought is. How Western thought, from religion to economics to class mobility, is focused on disempowering the individual and transferring power to the system they must conform to in order to advance. Buddhism is individual-based and empowering. It believes that the original mind of man is pure and unbounded by concepts and ideas. Tapping into the purity of mind and spirit will help you advance in this life, mentally, physically, and spiritually.
There is no outsourcing taking place, it's all about freeing oneself. The power to free yourself comes from within and cannot be granted by any outside sources. It is up to you to work, to practice, to put in the time and energy to save yourself.
Compare this to the idea of Christianity, where we are only lowly sinners who must be saved by an outer presenceโs hand. Only certain chosen people, pastors, and prophets are qualified to interpret the Word of God and then they will tell you what to do. The altruistic spirit of Christianity has never existed in America, and the Bible has been used as a tool for profit and control.
Can you be a very rich man and consider yourself a Christian? Can you dedicate your life to becoming rich within our capitalist system and still believe youโll enter the kingdom of God with no hint of hypocrisy? The religious attitude of Christianity seems to be one of constant judgment, a state of mind that lends itself to constant disturbances due to constant discrimination between ideas of โrightโ and โwrongโ that youโve been given by the church.
The true spirit of Christianity seems to me, that you subscribe to the idea God exists in all his creations. You do your best to be like Jesus and show unconditional love in the face of the worldโs evils. You encourage people to unconditionally love themselves despite their mistakes because God is within them. You inspire them to get back on the path of righteousness as soon as possible. You love all of Godโs creations and respect his handiwork. To sully this beautiful thought with ideas of profit and personal gain, because you are one of the โchosen peopleโ, shows how spiritually bereft even the Westโs most widespread religion has become.
Buddhism says everyone can have the divine experiences of connection to a higher power. This higher power exists inside us already and must simply be unlocked, and cleaned off from the worldโs discriminatory, dualistic thinking. Learning this is actually our natural state of existence, rather than praying for an outside source to touch you and give you your โeurekaโ or moment of divine inspiration, is a huge difference in my opinion.
You are the only goalkeeper to unlocking a better state of existence and thereโs no need for religious texts or divine leadership, only a need to be disciplined in your practice and free yourself from the limits the world has placed upon our minds. Buddhism opens the mind, modern religion closes it. Modern religion has concepts of good and bad that people cling to and manipulate to preserve their own personal comfort.
Their comfort level frequently is an attempt to feel superior to others through judgment. Rather than attempt to understand the whole of a situation, the whole of a person, they are set on judging from their (im)moral high horse of fake piety