The lie about things getting better

[matrixmann]

Wenn alles immer nur gut werden soll, warum wird es dann trotzdem immer schlechter?

If everything shall only improve, why then do things only turn worse and worse?

Comments

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

In fact I keep on thinking how long is it going to last until the total collapse. I am surprised it is not yet but certainly if we compare things even two-three years ago, it is worse.

[matrixmann]

This is somewhat the contradiction I don't even understand in their propaganda. All people notice they find themselves in a worse and worse situation by each year, but still it's "this year we have even more than last year!" that's been cried from the roofs and people even believe (!) in it. They rather believe in what someone tells them than what they get to feel in their own situation.
To me this is a purely psychological matter - as, once as I was young, I tried to do the same too, out of "optimism by force" (the translation "calculated optimism" for "Zwecksoptimismus" in German that the dictionary suggests I don't find that correctly taken) because you desperately asked yourself "that should have been all that life has to offer for me?!", but as I made the psychological step to rather believe in what I see, that I perceive that the world is not the place where hopes come true, rather it is a place where people get kicked, betrayed, beaten, kept on leashes and prevented from climbing up the ladder, since then I mainly lost the belief in such mantras.
It's still been a hard way of defending yourself mentally against people beside you which still keep on talking differently, but by the time, if the experiences fit more only one position of both, and if some people left you talking like this, then you get a "feeling" of deciding which position is more like the truth.

But that psychological experience - drawing that correlation with your cognitive skills -, it's something that must be made and impulses to do so don't come from nothing.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

May be it is called delusional? Like some people I know think if you think positive and be in denial, positive things will happen. And the irony of it, by mathematical probability there is a 50/50 chance either one thing or the opposite will happen and people start believing in this positive thinking crap, and everyone looses control over reality.

[matrixmann]

Perhaps it takes the shape of it. You know, with some things that this capitalistic society fosters and rewards, if you were a doctor for the brain or a therapist, you'd see a lot of patients running round out there as normally you'd call that stuff "pathologically relevant".
At least I could never consider that as something that is "good" or "does you well" mentally or something that I find people believe in all that voluntarily. I always also found that in part of people like forced upon - they only do it because they've gotten told a thousand times and assume it'll be right, it's them who's at fault or has a problem.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Irony of it, this behavior makes them unhappy, think of the rate of suicides.

[matrixmann]

You can say in that part they know it's wrong. At least those which really only repeat it to themselves as a mantra.
The others which truly believe of just have a happy character - well, maybe their experience is, if it's one of them, that they apostatize. And you know how hard that is?