Krishnamurti once said that “it is no measure of health to be well
adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” However, being born and brought
up in such a society, most people can’t realize that it is sick, let
alone that they are part of this sickness, just like fish, which, living
in water, cannot realize that they are in water and part of the sea
life.
What does it mean to live a normal life? In the modern world,
especially in the West, it means to be brainwashed at a very young age
for over a decade by what we call schooling, to later on work as a wage slave for almost the rest of your life competing with others so as to merely survive, to mindlessly consume products without end because manipulative advertising convinced you to do so, while at the same time you unconsciously harm the planet we inhabit, to slowly poison your physical organism by feeding it with disease causing foods, to obey to the rules and believe in the dogmas handed
down to you by those in authority, to be passive and uncreative,
suppressing yourself in countless of ways, living in suffering yet doing
nothing to overcome it.
