I can't live with or without you.

Some years ago, being a big U2 fan, I recall now the timeless song With or Without You – the song expresses the paradox of not being able to live with something, but then also depending on it too.

Still years later, this essential paradox rings true with me.

I can’t live with mainstream society, but I can’t live without it.

I can’t live with Western culture, but, unfortunately, I can't seem to live without it either.

It’s an interesting place to be.

I think increasingly, over the coming years, people will begin to become more and more disillusioned with Western culture, with what mainstream society brings us – something that is packaged very nicely, but underneath it, dig a little deeper and you find all sorts of cans of worms and unpleasant ideas and realities.

But then what to do? We were brought up in it, raised in it, it's part of our internal architecture.

Do we go for cultural conversion, or do we just tolerate living with something we don’t like? Depending on it for our source of livelihood.

The world is full of unresolvable ethical dilemmas.

Thus, many turn towards a spiritual path to find solace and inspiration in a world gone mad, run by insane people for insane objectives.

In the spiritual dimension where we meet Divinity, a call comes to uplift the hearts of others, rather than just standing by and watching hearts be crushed by the machinations of an (once lucrative, now in steady decline) Empire.

Despite such a paradox as described above, in my opinion, the future looks bright because ultimately happiness should not depend on what's happening in this world, but what's happening in one's own heart.