I wake up in the morning feeling just as drained as I felt before going to bed. It only gets harder to get out of bed, but then the same routine takes place; have a shower, some coffee, a few minutes spent browsing the net, check my emails, get dressed, sometimes remember to eat something before I leave the house... then hurry down the tube station to catch a crowded train to work. And then spend most of my day sitting at a desk and starring at a computer.
Growing up, that's hardly the kind of lifestyle one dreams about, is it? Although, to be fair, didn't I spend most of my childhood struggling to wake up in the morning, have a shower, get dressed, have breakfast, and then spend my day sitting at a desk in a classroom to listen to various teachers? But here's the con: they spend their time telling you that if you do as you're told as a child, and go through the mind-numbing process of school routine, then you'll have a better shot at a 'great', 'fulfilling' life later on. And then you grow up, and you realise that most of the 'good' jobs are at a desk somewhere anyway. Obviously by then you've already caught up on the deception and realise that it's just the same mind-numbing process. So what does the adult world tell you? They tell you that if you do as you're told, and go through the mind-numbing process of work as we know it, then you'll get money, perhaps even lots of money, which will give you a shot at a 'great', 'fulfilling' life.... See where I'm going with this?
Then you look at all these rich people, and what do they do? Sure, they have it easier on a material level, and they probably get to travel the world, sleep in on a Monday morning, etc... but their lack of purpose is just as striking as someone with a few coins in his pocket.
Work is an integral part of living within a social setting. We each contribute to the whole, no question about it, and yes, it doesn't always have to be pleasant. If it were pleasant all the time, we would even lose the ability to appreciate what we do have, or the ability to appreciate the pleasant experience itself.
But there is no 'whole' anymore, is there? You or I don't really contribute to a whole, because society itself is now so fragmented and driven by individual greed that there is no longer a society to speak of, but a consumer base, or a giant Tesco, if you like. Not a society.
We're left with the ghost of what may have started once as a society of some sort. Today, all we have is the ghost, or empty shell, and while the language remains the same, and we keep using words like society, the reality does not match the meaning of these terms.
They can use such words as democracy, freedom and society as much as they want, they do not exist in reality. What we have is industries parading behind the terms.
The problem with a lot of people is that they have the habit of believing things the moment they hear it often enough. So if the media, the governments, the schools, hell, all the 'founding' bases of a given area start parroting the same things, then a lot of people end up believing it as truth. It's that easy. Why think for yourself when you have industries out there that can do it for you? They're even paid to think for you, or you may actually be paying for them. Whatever, the result is pretty much the same.
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