The World And Ideals

when one starts to question the world, one objects to very specific things at the beginning usually; maybe the government; or big business; or organized religion.
then, as one goes on, one realizes it's more complicated than that.
the workers are oppressed, yes; but they often don't come across as being the heroic fighters that people like marx painted them; when giving the chance to join a complacent bourgeois life, with luxury and comfort, and money, they're eager to give up the struggle quickly.
or the anarchist groups you admired are not as idealistic as you first thought; ridden by in-fighting and failure and narcissism.
this is when things get complicated quickly, as you realize there are more and more things in the world you should object.

this is when people usually give up. they think, if you go on, you can't see anymore what or against you are fighting for as everything seems to connected to bad things and this evil spreads through all of society.
so they stop the fighting and join in to normal life with less lofty and far-stretched goals.
because, it would be a fallacy, to try to fight a problem as large as this one, wouldn't it be?
but that is wrong. they stop just before realizing an important truth. it is indeed not just the government or big business that is evil. and it's not almost the whole of society. it's the whole of society. it's the whole of the world that is evil.
let me further define this here. it's not that there is some evil that for some reason extends to the whole of the world. the evil is not "in" the world. the evil *is* the world. the world is rotten to the core. there is something in the very nature of the world that is corrupted, corruption, and corrupting everything.

let me give an example. we all know the anarchists, or the hippies, or the punks, had revolutionary ideas, ideas of a better world and justice and peace and equality. and they tried to put these ideals out into the world and change the world.
and in a sense they all failed. this is why people think: there must be something wrong with these ideals and thoughts and theories they had. because they didn't work in the real world.
but this is wrong! the ideals, the theories, were all correct, pure, just and beautiful. but by putting these ideas into the 'real world', by trying to 'realize these theories and ideals' they ended up corrupting everything and themselves, because the world corrupts everything that gets put in it.
the ideas stayed grand and correct and right and true; just the world stayed corrupt because it will always stay corrupt.

so is there no solution? there is one. become an idealist, stay an idealist. leave the world aside. further your ideals and great thoughts and poetry and dreams. don't let yourself be corrupted by the world. keep your focus on the ideals.