Martrutt
7mo ago
Founder of Midlife Accent | Featured on She Owns It | Consciousness mastering the art of being human.
I am tired of this world.
Not in the dramatic sense.
In the quiet way you feel when something about the system doesn’t quite make sense anymore.
Most people feel it too.
They just don’t say it out loud.
We are born into a package:
A name.
A flag.
A nationality.
A religion.
A social code.
And an invisible message beneath it all:
Without these things, you are nothing.
Religion promised something extraordinary:
Suffer now.
Obey now.
Accept now.
Your reward will come later. After you die.
A remarkably efficient system.
The powerful remain powerful.
The poor remain patient.
And justice is always postponed.
Then there is money.
A number on a screen that entire civilizations agree represents value.
Empires were built on it.
Wars were fought over it.
Lives were spent chasing it.
Technology arrived.
The world became connected.
But look carefully.
War still exists.
Power still concentrates.
Nations are destabilized.
Children suffer.
And what do we search for online?
“10 habits of successful people.”
“5 ways to improve your morning routine.”
Endless lists.
Distractions disguised as wisdom.
Krishnamurti once wrote:
Man is still competitive, acquisitive, and brutal — and society reflects it.
But there may be another truth.
Humans are not only brutal.
We are easily manipulated.
We want to believe someone wise is in charge.
Because the alternative is unsettling.
The alternative is realizing the system might simply belong to those who learned to manipulate psychology better than everyone else.
So what do we do?
I don’t have the answer. Maybe none of us do.
Maybe the first step is simply this:
Thinking for ourselves.
But even that raises a difficult question.
Is it still possible?
Because while we scroll, argue, react, and chase the next trending idea…
The machinery keeps moving.
Quietly.