On Selfishness

I've put this off for way too long. I guess I never bothered simply due to knowing that I know what I know. Now I want to share and hence I am taking time off study and doing this. I might regret it and I might not. It doesn't matter anymore. 

A recent post I read by someone talked about guilt for being selfish. It's not his fault. This is what happens when society takes a good seed and fucks it up beyond any recognition (FUBAR) and this fucked up programming runs rampant in almost all 6-7 billion people inhabiting this planet. This faulty social programing goes against our very genetic code of existence and it gets deeper and darker by the day. Rare is the man who opposes the status quo. It's what I do. I thrive upon it. Why? Because the 6-7 billion people on this planet can't be right. If they were, they'd be happy. Most people are either miserable or neutral. Neutral is disgusting. It's better to be miserable than neutral. At least being miserable means you are experiencing an emotion of some sort. Experiencing an emotion of some sort means you're experiencing life. Life is a concoction of misery weaved with joy. Hence for society to claim that one should do away with misery to lead better lives is a dehumanizing notion. Not only is it dehumanizing, but it's also unrealistic. A person who's "happy" 100% of the time isn't normal. The diagnosis for those people is known as "mania." Those people don't even have much reason to be happy. You can call it Zen or just a coping strategy for existence.  We are all gonna give it one label or another to make sense of something within our spectrum of reality. 

Selfishness is the most basic, and important, instinct a human can possibly possess. There is nothing evil about it but we are brought up in a society that puts it in such a light. We need to be selfish in order to survive. Anything can be boiled down to this instinct: When someone applies for a job, this is an act of greed because those who don't get the job remain jobless. When someone chooses a high-quality mate for a monogamous commitment is depriving other people from having a chance to be happy with the person or his mate. This selfishness is ensuring our survival whether it's to procreate with a high quality mate for better offspring or getting a job to earn a living to ensure best chances for survival. 

When someone helps a person in need is done only if it doesn't compromise their life. Those who do are victims of social programing. A lifetime of hearing songs of praise and honor to those who sacrificed their lives and monuments built in their name does it because if feeds the ego. Most egos are out of control and are pleading to be fed. Being able to serve gives the person a sense of self worth since the person being served comes off as the one inferior, the one in need of service. This is not evil since it validates a person's sense of self-worth in this world. People feel worthless till they are able to give back. To give back gives a sense of self worth. Hence to serve is an ego-feeding system. Wording it the way I did merely makes it sound evil but it's nevertheless the same thing that could be worded in a  myriad of ways.