We're all in this together

No, I'm not talking about the High School Musical song. I'm referring to this slogan or narrative that's been spewed for months on end. You see, there's such a thing as conditioning. I'd know, I studied psychology as my major in college. Another concept that exists that's been more obvious than ever this year is individualism. It starts in elementary school, maybe even before that. Community does not exist, teams are based around individuals who get credit or blame depending on the result. There are two sides to everything. It's all designed to keep people separated and never working together. It just makes zero sense why now at all times it would be some sort of expectation that people would care about others. Never have people been more isolated socially, even before this crap started, and never have things been as polarized in general. Old vs young, white vs black, male vs female, "educated" vs not, the biggest one probably in rich vs poor, religions... It all just leads to nobody caring about one another, and it is no surprise that one side of whatever will believe one thing while the other thinks they're crazy.

the thing with this ongoing situation is the stuff above predicts human behavior. If there are so many divisions, even within a neighborhood, which is supposed to be a support system, you have a bunch of strangers scared of each other. One of the craziest things still to this day is when I see people walk out into the road, oblivious of oncoming traffic, to avoid someone. Gotta give the news corporations props for the propaganda, because that is some powerful shit to have people literally putting themselves in danger thinking they're avoiding something that has a 99% recovery rate. Another thing I despise about this whole thing is the idea "you don't wanna kill grandma or grandpa". On a personal level, I couldn't give a shit about that because my grandparents are all dead and have been for 10+ years. Part of this situation that's totally ignored, conveniently, is the mental state of "compromised individuals", mostly old people if we're being honest. I've always said that if I was old enough that something like this, which realistically isn't that bad, could kill me, and I was in say a care facility or on a ventilator, just pull the plug on me and put me outta my misery.

The phrase I used in the title is particularly annoying to me. Remember at the beginning with the "celebrities" telling everyone something along the lines of "stay home, save lives" and all that? Yeah, it's been like 9 months now. To me, so much is being ignored at the moment. It's essentially community + freedom is being destroyed because of fear propaganda. An example of my own family that thoroughly disturbs me is that my parents and sister's family are all under the spell big time. My nephews haven't been in "grandma's house" for more than a few seconds since the powers that be told them they couldn't do that anymore. Now, this may be another issue entirely, and it tails back to the freedom part I mention above. Personally, I think there's a massive difference between what people are doing, in terms of isolation, and what they SHOULD be doing. What we all should be doing is spending time in nature and getting back to our roots. Instead, it's the opposite. People are buying pointless stuff online, as usual, going to big company stores that'll thrive no matter what, and still living close to people that they live in fear of. I mean, it's as if decades of people living normal lives were just erased in a matter of months. I think what bothers me most, and this is certainly a sentiment held by many out there, is this idea that for however long, things will just be in limbo. What I mean by this, and it kinda again refers to what I was saying about old folks, is people my age and younger, probably up to 40 or so, are supposed to be "living life", whatever that means. People that have experienced what they needed to are the ones at risk, yet we're the ones suffering because they might die. That's the harsh reality. I was listening to my favorite podcast months ago and the guy was talking about his twin boys, a couple years older than me, are supposed to be living to the fullest right now. It brings up another issue, which is why not live to the fullest all the time, but the point is young people in particular will be rightly pissed that their lives have more or less been ruined by something that won't kill them. I'm not saying it wouldn't suck for some people, and there may be lasting effects, that's not what I'm saying. Also, it's the "rules for me, not for thee" thing going on where "privileged people" aren't suffering at all, in fact many are making more money than ever. If you're rich and young, living in a mansion with a girlfriend/wife and can realistically stay there indefinitely without issue, you don't now get to act like the average person is in that same boat.

The actual quote that stuck with me, hence the title, was a sign in the IKEA parking lot in Potomac Mills when my family went up there in June or whatever. The point was that this billion dollar company, making thousands at each location per day, is acting like they give a shit about people beyond the dollars they're spending in the store. Same thing with "mental health awareness" and "inequality" issues. I've talked about this before, but brands and companies hop on the bandwagon of trends, acting "woke" because that's what's popular. They don't give a shit about the actual issue, they just use the causes to sell shirts and bring customers in. Anyone associated with government is putting on the same façade. To have these arbitrary rules and "lockdowns", yet all the stores stay open the entire time, sports are being played... Hmm... Something doesn't sit right about that. Like, here in the US college sports are going on. Why is that even happening? Oh, that's right, money. The other related point with this is shutting down anything related to fun, yet keeping the profitable big businesses open like I said a few lines ago. Not to mention Amazon. Holy shit they've been raking in the money this year. It's also what pisses me off about working with UPS right now. I see all the damn money these companies are making and it's absurd. This isn't even a big area, yet you have hundreds of packages on each route each day, and there must be a good number of drivers.

To conclude, we aren't and haven't been in this together since community and the family unit were destroyed. That was not by accident, as docile, isolated people are easier to control. This whole thing, and really any large scale change, is probably based on taking power from the people and putting it in the hands of the government, which is never a good thing. 2020 was supposed to be the year of knowledge and awakening, hence why this planned event took place. Add to that an election, causing more division, and it's the perfect cocktail to created a totally isolated society of depressed, confused individuals.