Echoes from Abyss

27 July 2025, 1:00 PM

Life is utterly meaningless! We're stuck in an eternal loop of finding out the meaning of our existence but only end up doing things that are meaningless in the greater scheme of things. Some go after wealth, some after knowledge but the truth is none of them truly make your life something of value. From a young age we're put into school and taught to abide by the framework and we become hopeful that it will lead us somewhere, but once you pass-out, you're left with a void in your heart, one void of any meaning. All these years you were hopeful that it would lead you somewhere but now that you're there, the future seems bleak and since your life doesn't have any framework anymore (it's basically the wild west), your life suddenly loses all meaning. All these years you were focused on getting good grades with the hopes of making it big in life, but the truth is even if you're in the top 1% in terms of skill in your industry you're still nowhere close to being rich even in 7 lifetimes.

Absurdism and Übermensch seem to be the only way to truly live your lives. All the social structures are nothing but an illusion that lead you into misery and meaninglessness. Of course money and a good career is important, but it is much more important to do what you like and live life for yourself and not for the corporate overlords. I've come to the conclusion that creativity and relationships is the only real way for one to achieve happiness and fulfillment. The 12 years of education that we get is nothing but useless when it comes to actually living one's life and not just surviving. Schools put too much of an emphasis on building a good career but it is only a very small concern when it comes to actually living your life. Life is about being creative, meeting people, and questioning the essence of existence, not slaving away to hyper-capitalism. It's important that we work for ourselves and not for corporate profit since corporations are built with only one goal in mind - providing profit to shareholders, and have no concern about the society or its employees. Capitalism has ruined our lives but the sad part is it's not going anywhere any time soon. So, we have to look out for ourselves in this time of dire need and aware of our real wants and needs. We're made to believe that owning goods gives us happiness but it is only a hedonistic pursuit of utter meaninglessness. We, humans, achieve fulfillment through building, not via consumption. Consumption is only a result of corporate greed and not of human need. The world currently serves the interests of corporations more than people, the irony is the corporations are themselves run by people who are often very miserable.

Success in the present world isn't based on merit or good will but rather on dark personality traits. Whoever has more of these traits seems to be more successful. The more void of morals you are the higher are your chances of success. I think this fact alone screams more about the nature of hyperconsumerism and capitalism than any book or article of propaganda ever could.

It is sad how people who are the biggest victims of capitalism are made to believe that all other means of production and distribution were bad when in reality, they were only bad for a very few people who control most of the wealth in the capitalist world. The rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer and are made to believe in theories such as trickle-down economics. The people who would benefit the most from systems such as social democracy are made to believe that it would make their lives worse, and of course the people who make them belief such things have significant dark personality traits. The world is governed by the psychopaths and we're expected to fit into their world of darkness.