attempting to understand the idea of inadequacy

The climate of the world created by modernism seems so to crave social control that it denies an individual person their value. We are so subject to the comparative statistics (as reported by a favored politically correct media) that we suddenly become obsessed with gauging our net value to standards written by advertising moguls and plagued by an undermined ethics degenerated in a justification principle. Yet, there so often exists a resilience to change in the wake of this new world that we succumb to the symptoms of this mania, unable to recognize the core truth of ourselves beyond the unit of society who defines us.

I feel failed in attempting to understand this, to define this, or act upon this while witnessing countless acquaintances absorbed in a mass hysterically proposed idea of consumerism, mindlessly buying or devouring items of little necessity for the sake of ‘raising’ their value. There are others I have witnessed that choose to substitute their emptiness by taking power from those around them, controlling behavior in management, or the practice of using romantic facades to temporarily satisfy a false sense of self worth or physical fulfillment. Another acquaintance feels her net worth will rise if she dates ‘socially upward’, sacrificing any and all other responsibilities in her life for the sake of momentarily being able to use or control a suitor for his status, until her emptiness and boredom sets in and she harshly cuts him off. The hurt and negative energy forms multiplying channels of exponentially increasing negative forces, yet each person echoes a justification principle meant to find absolution without truthful confession.

What is this torturous adoption of inadequacy we have chosen in this society? It has become a wonderful tool of the corporate and government financial wheels, as the targeted masses of individuals have become the desperate fund raisers for an ever impulsive power system with only selfish cause. Perhaps history lessons were not clear enough with previous fallen gluttonous empires, as consumers have so willingly paid increasing taxes and purchased store houses of unnecessary goods designed to funnel money to the ‘managers’ of power, military, sweatshops, energy and resources. At the whim of an advertiser’s remark, or a popular celebrity, entrepreneurs and business moguls alike seem thrilled to mass sell millions of ‘fad’ symbols.

A question comes to mind: Where does this end? How many trash bags and storage sheds are needed to supplement the bottomless pit of inadequacy that is the psychological generator of buying frenzies?

Maybe people just require a moment of reconnection of their mind and spirit and body—with more energy to feeding the mind and spirit with the things that have been forgotten, the things of a simpler world and time, the things that remind us how valuable each one of us actually is.