As soon as someone experiences any pain in our society today (even on a micro level) it’s often framed as a basic human rights violation. Because of how this proceeds everyday in our culture, you would have to assume that everyone who lives here in North America arrived on the same boat and the only promise tabled, as they walked ashore was…. “welcome to North America, we promise you nothing, other than a life that includes NO PAIN.”

The odd thing about pain is that it’s designed to get a human motivated to take action. Hunger pains for example, are created to ensure that the human animal doesn’t starve too death. If you sedated or tranquilized your hunger pains because they made you feel “uncomfortable”, you would actually die. Pain plays a major role in human survival and evolution.

It used to be that when a kid finished last in a race, everyone in the society realized that although painful, there was a hidden benefit inside the pain. Children who felt the sting of coming in last place would train harder, to one day hopefully become the best. The pain again being a signal to change, evolve and learn. But as already stated, it appears a very odd pact has been made in this society, to protect all the citizens from even the most mild forms of pain……and this has stalled our society’s evolution full stop. Because of this downgraded life philosophy, most people are living in a very primitive form of arrested development. Not only are we not permitting children to experience the gifts of normal every day life pains and failures, like finishing last in a race or even failing a grade in school………this no pain society concept has spread out into the adult world as well.

Most adults today want nothing to do with pain and the benefits pain brings. Let’s take a lady I know named Judy. She bet that she could go study something she wasn’t interested in for 5 years at University and then work 30 years at a soulless government job, where she executes the exact opposite of her institution’s stated mandate…….day in and day out. Because the job is futile, acting more like a 30 year prison sentence than a vocation, she started feeling the PAIN of wasting her life inside a conformist’s dream……….which of course registers as a nightmare inside the psyche. Instead of feeling the pain and the benefits that would bring, regarding change and evolution……she told the pain to go away with junk food, boat loads of coffee, toxic medication, wine every night, lots of distraction based media, some porn, lots of weed and endless appointments with this specialist or that. She bet that a conformist life of futility and addiction would make her happy……and the pain she gets back means she bet wrong. AND THAT’S PERFECTLY OK but she wants nothing to do with the pain, the message it whispers or the evolution it can deliver if she would just trust the process. If you’re stepping on a nail, it’s your job to to step off it. If you stay standing on the nail but just eat more and more pain killers……your evolution HAS STALLED.

Welcome to the no pain society….a society crashing back to earth from some great heights because the people who live here have forgotten the benefit of life saying….”the pain means go back, try again and become better. “