The Illusion of Control
Posted on: March 25, 2008, at 12:37:05pm

This blog may be seemingly pessimistic, and I could see how it’d be interpreted that way, but I’m just being real and sharing one of my perspectives in life. It’s a viewpoint that can hopefully help people of higher opportunity be more empathetic for those who are less fortunate.

Many argue that you have the control over your life. They say that your life is based on which decisions and choices you make throughout the situations you face in life. Which is true, and yet it's your genes, which you have absolutely no control over, that make you who you are, what you look like, and how you act. When faced with certain decisions and choices in your life, you choose a certain path because of your morals, unconscious desires, your personality – or what your genes have made you to be. Even the last second choices, the choices you might intentionally make to ’rebel’ against who you are – those were still influenced by your genes. You may argue that your environment you’ve been raised in alters your morals and personality. Yes, it does. But you’ve had no control over your environment from day one. If you were raised in India, you could be a completely different person right now, but you had no control over your parents or the country you were born in. Those who affect you in your life (parents, friends) make their decisions because of their genetic predisposure and environment they’ve lived through as well, of which they had no control over either. You’ve had no control over which people surround your life. You may influence others’ ideas based on what you do or say, but it still comes back to the fact that you’ve done or said these things because of your personality. Sure, your environment and people surrounding you change over time, but the way you handle and interpret the situations you face is determined by your genes and how your personality has changed over time. Your life has had a predestined path since day one, and you just have to live through its illusion of control.

So next time you look at someone and think "what a fuck up," is it really their fault? Did they choose their genetic predisposure, parents, and environment to be raised in? No. Some people get lucky, and others don’t. There are winners and losers. The idea that "everyone’s a winner" in today’s "politically correct" society is just patronizing and dehumanizing – and really pisses me off – but I’ll save my ideas on that topic for another blog.

Be grateful for what’s been given to you. The fact that you even own a computer and are intelligent enough to read this means you lucked out in life. Enjoy your life and try to help those less fortunate as much as you can without stunting your own success.

And I’ll stress it again. Whatever you do, and however you do it, enjoy life.

1. 1: 13337
   Posted at 1:36am on March 26th, 2008

   Wow, how are you so fucking right all the time... VERY GOOD BLOG <3333
2. 2: Popmeister
   Posted at 3:04am on May 13th, 2008

   More people really need to read this.
3. 3: GG_Guru
   Posted at 1:50pm on May 31st, 2008

   bro i see where your coming from. lol i used to do shit like this all the time when i was 15 i was into philosophy and was interested in human interaction, sociology, etc... but to tell you the truth your going through a phase. we call it 'puberty'. lol not to be a critic or anything but your going to grow tired of this and just move on with your life trust me i know =D