Eric Durland
Bio
My only goal is to say all the things you don't want to hear, to make you think about the things you don't want to think about.
All I offer you is the truth.
Stories (16/0)
Living the Myth
One revelation that I've recently come to, derived from a question I've pondered greatly—that had been asked of the legendary Joseph Campbell in an interview he'd done—revolved around if we are, in the present, creating myths. And the revelation I've come to is that we ourselves, right here and right now, are living a myth—we are the myth.
By Eric Durland5 years ago in Humans
Depression, Addiction, and Crime
(VLOG at bottom for those who prefer to watch and listen rather than read). Perhaps, I am biased, being someone who has himself suffered and defeated years of both addiction and depression. But, when I see things like addiction, depression, suicidal thoughts, or even crime, I see the statement of a soul that is crying out that it needs something that it isn't getting. I see a soul that feels trapped within the series of unfortunate events that are its life, and the pain, anger, and resentment these events harbor. I see a soul that hasn't had a positive mentor to teach them to think constructively and deductively; or had the ability to be educated fairly; or had the positive environments that breed confidence and promote seeking self-discovery, self-betterment, and self-growth; or had the connections and assets necessary to pursue their passions and their dreams. And it certainly doesn't make that soul "weak" to have to succumb to the weight of a deeply lost and misguided world quite clearly owned and operated by Darkness—despite, this "tough-guy" society we've created, attempting to paint such an ignorant picture; one that deflects all blame away from the true root of the problem, and places it onto the lost and suffering soul for the actions that were only ever manifested because of the pains that haunt their past.
By Eric Durland5 years ago in The Swamp
Seeking Truth
(VLOG at bottom for those who prefer to watch and listen rather than read.) One massive problem with our society is, those of us most lost to this Game of Triumph we live—to our societies popularity contest, seeking to be "cool" and "popular," and thus, ultimately, seeking any of a number of facets of superiority over our peers—don't even understand how intolerant, prejudicial, egotistical, narcissistic, selfish, self-centered, duplicitous and meretricious they in-fact are. They don't even understand how lost they in-fact are to the constructs of conformity and unanimity within this game we live. In-fact, they fervently deflect and deny this reality insofar as their entirely negative social habits are just normal to them—to the full extent that they don't even understand they are doing wrong. The worst of these individuals so easily controlling those they influence. Clandestinely bullying and trolling their peers in order to flaunt and maintain their social dominance, placing those of us they influence into a coma with regards to the negative nature of our thoughts and actions as they pressure us to unconsciously conform to this fight for Triumph the status quo embodies. They reinforce our negative behaviors—our duplicity and superficiality towards others—with positive reinforcement. As the acceptance we come to receive makes us further embody these negative social traits, we then hide within in-group settings—closed social networks in which in order to be allowed to see the truth of the tainted intolerance, judgment and prejudice that group members actively embody, one has to be an in-grouper. Ergo, once we are an in-grouper, we clandestinely conceal our privately shared thoughts and feelings from out-groupers,creating the facade—the lie we live—through deflecting and denying the ignorance we've come to embody in the form of duplicity, prejudice and judgment that is carefully concealed within these in-group settings.
By Eric Durland5 years ago in Humans
Rising Above Adversity
Nine months ago, I arrived at the revelation that I'd had enough of wasting my life pursuing useless jobs that meant nothing to my heart and soul nor to the attainment of my passions and my dreams. And having become fully fed up, succumb to pursuing an archetypal lifestyle and subjecting myself to people and hierarchies that did nothing but depress me, I did the only thing I could think of: I packed my car with a tent, a 50 liter pack and my dog, and surrendered all my material belongings in pursuit of a dream gleaned from an epiphany I had back in 2015: that my destiny was to write a novel on par with that of Divergent, Hunger Games, Twilight, The Maze Runner, or Harry Potter.
By Eric Durland5 years ago in Criminal