love & madness & liberation

i want to think about this more, but for right now:
definitely: more alive people= a better-looking world.
but what keeps us from being alive? (see below for my easy-out and over simplified answer)
whose definition of 'alive'

does every one have a right to their own definition of being 'alive'
yes, would be the only reasonable answer... but
what if someone feels alive via something that creates oppression and violence?


what makes us have such different ideas of what/how we want to do/be?

capitalism is a shitty and divisive force which defines being human/the IDEAL in terms that prioritize the individual over the collective.