2dreem, are you familiar with the theories of David Icke? If you hear of these theories summed up briefly, you can just dismiss them as paranoid BS, but if you care reading at least one of his book, the evidence presented is so huge that you can't possibly say it is BS any more. Of course it is one of the possible metaphores, I like better the one that I call of the "dark lords" because I saw them with my own eyes.
No, I also don't think that all this sufferance is a natural state of existence. And no-one can go anywhere without taking some serious strategy to integrate the dark side, inwards and outwards.