This is my late night drunk post true of my chest. I have a dark view of the world and I can’t understand anybody who doesn’t. I tried to fit in and think about the good things in my life and have fun but it feels fake. It seems like there is a truth which you can only see if you are able to take yourself out of the equation. Because everybody wants to feel good and it makes them complacent. I have seen very few people who are comfortable in their life and not scared of seeing the dark side of the world, not scared of facing uncomfortable truths about their life or their behavior. But being too scared to even acknowledge the bad things happening in the world will never change anything. Seeing it will not always lead to change but avoiding it will surely never lead to it. I think everybody who has the privilege to have a good life should have the obligation to confront himself with the bad things happening in the world just to have the motivation to fight for a world in which everybody can live a good life. I know this isn’t the way and there has to be a better more positive way to see the world but I can’t find any arguments to change my view. Not with all the self-righteousness and egoism.
Respectfully, idk what’s so “dark” about understanding that we have a responsibility to this world, and that that responsibility starts by being responsible for ourselves (our thoughts and actions), and that can only take place with at least a modicum of self-knowledge. That’s just the right way to see the world if you don’t want your existence to be, by default or on purpose, a net negative in this world. Because if it is, you either change yourself or end yourself, and that’s the responsible thing to do. The biggest problems in this world come from those who deny this responsibility and self-centeredly, sociopathically live only to please themselves, regardless of who suffers from it!
Your view isn’t “dark”, it’s just mature. Of course, depending on your culture, this could be rare, and the societal repercussions of it will be obvious. Or it could always be in the back of your mind, pushing you to be better and to repent for your momentary lack of virtue, as it is in cultures who believe in God and His judgement, for instance. And if this knowledge brings pain, it is because “in much knowledge there’s much sorrow” and “ignorance is bliss”… but we’re human beings, not beasts, and we have the capacity and responsibility to know enough to act right and make the world a better place to whatever degree we can.