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LIFE IS NOT "MOSTLY SUFFERING." IF THAT WERE TO BE TRUE, BIRTHDAYS WOULD BE MOURNED AND FUNERALS WOULD BE CELEBRATED. I WOULD SAY OUR ABILITY TO IGNORE MINOR INCONVENIENCES AND APPRECIATE SMALL PLEASANTRIES PROVES LIFE IS NOT PAIN. EVEN PEOPLE IN THE WORST CONDITIONS IMAGINABLE STILL TAKE THE TIME OUT OF THEIR LIFE TO CELEBRATE BIRTHDAYS. EVEN IF OUR LIVES ARE SHORT AND HAVE PAIN, WE STILL FIND OUR WAYS TO MAKE LOTS OF USE OUT OF OUR SHORT LIVES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. SO NO, LIFE IS NOT SUFFERING. AND I'D SAY MOST OF THE PAIN IN OUR LIVES COMES FROM EXTREME MATERIALISM, WE LIVE IN A THING-CENTERED SOCIETY RATHER THAN A PERSON-CENTERED SOCIETY. PEOPLE SEEM TO SIMPLY DISREGARD OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES AND LIVELIHOODS FOR PROFIT INCENTIVES, IT'S TRULY HEARTBREAKING. AND PEOPLE ATTEMPT TO ACT LIKE THE SYSTEM IS PERFECT, AND THAT NO REVOLUTIONARIES DISLIKED THE SYSTEM. CHILDREN HAVE BEEN TAUGHT THAT MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. LOVED CAPITALISM AND OUR CURRENT STATUS QUO. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WAS ACTUALLY QUITE SOCIALIST. CHRISTIANITY ALSO ORIGINALLY HAD SOCIALIST VALUES, SUCH AS LETTING THE PEOPLE OWN THE RIGHTS TO PRODUCTION. QUITE SADDENING. BOTTOM TEXT