To put your mind at ease life on Earth has always been crazy and it probably always will be. That is a given. So don't expect sanity within any human culture. However, we all have to survive here too. So developing a strategy for survival within an irrational framework is necessary for long term survival for all of us.
I remember a Priest Friend now passed away who was counseling a suicidal young man between 17 and 25 years of age. The priest who was a very intuitive soul said to the young man, "You know everyone is crazy don't you?" When the priest said this to the young man he stopped wanting to commit suicide. It was exactly the right thing to say. Because no human is completely sane. You cannot be completely sane and live on planet earth. Even the very act of survival can at times be considered insane from a logical point of view. So, in the end we only have one choice, "To Be or Not To Be". That is the only real choice we have as beings here. The next choice would be, "Will I be kind or will I be cruel?" The answer usually depends upon how you perceive others have treated you while you were growing up. However, I have found that life goes much smoother if one is kind to all those around one. This kindness adds to the possibility of your happy long term survival.
If your whole life becomes about revenge for what happened to you growing up then it tends to greatly shorten your life. Because in reality "What goes around comes around" or "do unto others as you would have them do unto you".
Survival is rarely about physical confrontation and in the long run mostly about wise right mindful kindness towards all beings. Once one learns this one can then survive quite well in this really crazy world.
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