Overcoming the World - Kapil Gupta  ## Metadata - Author: **Kapil Gupta** - Full Title: Overcoming the World - Category: #books ## Highlights - The primary reason that school exists is not for the purposes of education, but convenience. Parents need a place to leave their children when they go to work. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hr2y9jp6g25mkp3y32cy7qd8)) ## New highlights added March 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM - The world is a circus. It is a place of neon lights and loud sirens and shiny objects. It is a place of institutions, dogmas, and propaganda that is created to control the masses. The world is a place of half-truths, and outright lies. It is a place that conditions and brainwashes the masses into believing various fantasies. Politics, religion, schools, teams, spirituality, self-help, and all the institutions and dogmas it creates are to arrange individuals into competing groups so that they may be controlled. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jprjwxmt8xgcqcen2d0aqcmn)) - Governments are responsible for the majority of evil in the world. Government is a thief, rapist, and murderer that creates laws absolving itself of the very sins for which it imprisons its citizens. Government views its citizens as a compendium of slaves. Government views its citizens as people to be controlled, in order to retain its power. Government views its citizens as an open field of cash to pilfer-from to stuff its own coffers. If there is a form of evil incarnate in this world, it is government. It exists solely for its own engorgement, at the expense of its citizens. It is a parasite that sucks the life out of its citizens. The reason that it continues to exist is because the world has brainwashed the masses into believing its propaganda. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jprjzxecrx2xvwvrqwvb3kbc)) - It is possible that one may find an individual in this world that remains with them through easy and difficult times. One who is genuinely interested in the welfare of the individual and has a calm and supportive nature that provides a respite for the individual. Such individuals do exist. But they are extremely rare. In most cases, friendship is but a form of acquaintance. A shallow affair borne of an individual’s aversion of being alone, as he pursues life’s empty pleasures. Someone to go to the movies with, the club with, the shopping mall with, a party with. Someone whom to gossip with, and make nonsensical chatter with, in order to pass the time. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jprk443s09n1gm0q343vcytj)) - When the child is young, he longs for the parent. When the child has grown, the parent longs for the child. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jprk9kyczxzzy6rakqe8m122)) - To overcome the world is not to change the world. To overcome the world is to cleanse oneself of the world. The world is a place of half-truths, and outright lies. The world is a place of illusions and fabricated concepts. The world is a place of brainwashing and conditioning. To overcome the world is to realize within one’s being, that this is what the world is. And that this is all it can ever be. Overcoming the world is not recommended. It is not a “good” thing to do. It is not the “right” thing to do. It is not the “healthy” thing to do. It is not a thing that one “should” do. To overcome the world is to become free of the world. Free of false notions and concepts. Free of a life attempting to live up to external ideals. Free of the need for validation from the people of the world. To overcome the world is to find Freedom. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jprkfvzcqe1hbcvz6dt3kk3b))