This fascination for CAUSES!

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Don't you see it my friend...

As an individual, you are violable; you are a miniscule, insignificant pawn, harried, battered and infirm; above all you die - complete annihilation.

Yet the moment you give yourself over to a CAUSE, you can defy all this. By being the ephemeral cell of an organism which might survive to perpetuity, you try to gain significance, power and immortality.
Through absolute surrender you try to gain absolute liberty.
Through absolute slavery you try to attain absolute freedom.

Yet is the 'you' which might attain freedom even related to the 'you' which wants the freedom?

And you've given various names to celebrate 'the CAUSE',

You've called it 'the fight for justice', 'socialism' or 'capitalism' ;
you've called it 'democracy', 'autocracy' or 'theocracy';
you've called it 'the institution', 'the business', or 'the company';
you've called it 'the Colosseum', 'pyramid' or 'Taj Mahal';
you've called it 'Hinduism', 'Islam', or 'Christianity'
and so many other things.
You've called it God...

My friend, can't you see through it all?