How Does this World Work

I have always asked myself that question, that never-ending quest of seeking answer of why are we working so hard and making things so much more complicated than it needs to when we have the choice to stay simple and remain like that. I came across this video of this university freshman talking about this the other day and I think she is right—we give other people our needs and want, they fulfill it for us, and we give them more of what we need and they fulfill more, and so on. For example, we need tastier food than just raw meat and blood, so there are restaurants for us where more food options are served, but to manage those restaurants and to make those foods, we would need an extensive amount of labor and time. Another example is our desire for knowledge, to help us understand more and to decode more of the world, so there are schools and institutions being built to help educate people. Humanity operates upon greed and with more greed comes with more and more. This is why humans are passive to a lot of things, such as work and school, which would take us higher in society, but would probably not fit everyone’s desires—and that is the issue of this system. We often don’t recognize the difficulties of each other when being in a society like this, and everyone might end up not thinking about their purpose and their reason for being once they enter the competition and the never-ending rat race. 

If we go back to how we were when life was “simple” without the needs of work and school and any other labor-intensive demands, the word “society” might not even exist as the rule here is that labor will lead to a result, it is just the amount, time, and difficulty of which that matters to the end result. Our society advances under the rule of law and regulations that we have set as our brains mature and our level of desire advances. We sometimes forget that the law is here keeping order (although some do need modification), which is constructive to us as humans as we advance in society. If we were to have no rule, people would not get equitable treatment for their labor, nor would we have direction and a sense of guidance as we grow—just think if we were to be put someone on an island in the middle of an ocean and we tell them they can do anything they want, will they know what to do? Perhaps no, because we are so used to being in this society where the setup is given to us by the government and private firms as of what to do where to purchase what we need, etc. 

I do not have a conclusion to this splatter of thoughts, but all I can say is perhaps this is what we are destined to be in (supernaturalistic thoughts sometimes might be the only way to resolve myself from sophisticated realistic matters)