I'm CHOOSING to suffer

[Infinite Unity]

Perhaps I’m not explaining myself very well, because I am not saying “I’m out” or EP should be “out”. Recognizing the illusory nature of the ego can help us analyze and process the experience we’re going through by adding additional perspective.

I understand what you mean. It's similar to how race and culture is illusory but at the same time, it is NOT illusory. You can only get to a point of illusory when you understand the greater whole. For many people, they dismiss race and how race could be an issue, and the differences in one's culture. We can see it all over the place. For example, currently that's manifesting as anti-Chinese sentiment among the western sphere. If you look at the underlying issue, people do not understand Chinese culture or it's people. If one did make an attempt to understand, then they can come to a point where they can identify where aspects of Chinese culture is the same as our western culture, and that the differences can be quite beautiful (or ugly as not everything is perfect). This is coming to a point approaching unity. Only then can you call it illusory because you now understand that people are more similar than they are dissimilar.

Alot of the culture aspects in America is designed/influenced from the corporate/bussiness and military sectors. In which decisions/policies are in acted and the entire system, from entertainment to news is then aligned in there actions to these policies.

It's natural for us to be influenced by each other, it's in our nature it's akin to gravity. So when you have whole sectors spitting in the same general direction, most people follow suit. Not because there stupid, but because that's the reality, aspects, stimuli, influence and literal world is made out of, there not aware of any thing further, beyond or without those inputs/outputs(aspects/stimuli).