I can almost hear my many therapists, saying fix the problem closer to home, fix MY problems, but that’s just it, this is my problem. I tried for years and years to become more passive, more like others. I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t work 60-100 hour weeks and barely make enough to cover expenses. and now I live off of my family, and a part of me wants to feel guilty for that. I’m doing it though, I’m not going to be some passive jerk keeping the system corrupt. I like to believe that even without my family, I’d rather be homeless than kill myself for the company.
I live in the United States, but I never went in for nationalism or exceptionalism. Yes we’re different in some ways, but in so many we’re the same. I just watched a documentary about South Korea, how workers are literally working themselves to death. I wish I could imagine it wasn’t a US problem, but it is, it happens in the city I live in. Maybe it happens less? but watching this documentary, this is where it is going. People want to work hard and that’s a fine thing, but they give that work to corrupt and evil people and organizations.
again I try to step back. It’s so hard to find the real villains, they all hide behind a company or non profit or government entity….. and I cry, again; people are too passive!
If just enough of us stood up, if just enough of us said to the managers and companies “good luck running all this without us”….. maybe there’d be some chance of fair compensation, of an economy for people and not for rich investors.
and everyone loves to complain. We’re all good at that specific part, but we aren’t directing those complaints at the source of the problem. People come online and complain and then go to work the next day. Liars! It is because of two faced people like that, and I understand the economic motivations, they are strong, but people have to be stronger.
I want to have hope, but I don’t, not really for anyone other than me. Because I don’t mind being a madman on the fringe. I’d rather be someone people listened to, but they’d rather listen to their bosses saying “just work a little harder” how hard should they work? Until they die? I don’t know any healthy young adults anymore. History is full of tyrants who have drained every drop of blood out of those who follow them….. but in the modern world we’ve systemitized it, turned it into public policy. No more the leader with a strong hand, now it’s a faceless name on the side of a building.
and this is what people are afraid of? This is what they give their lives to? their young people to? their futures to?
I don’t want violence, or hurting other people. It’s a false choice, pretending that it’s just submit or violence. Rather, can’t we get more people to stand up and say “no more”? Can’t we just stand for getting enough off hours for sleep, eating and having children? Is this so much to ask? for healthcare and retirement? I feel like some sort of lunatic clown out on the fringes, dancing to try and bring notice to the people being ground to dust all for the profit of so very few, and to the harm of us all.
will I remain alone, as I cry out with every last breath; people are too passive
bring out better people, be the better people, be a humanity worth saving. I am sad to the point of enduring silence at all of this. The silence brought about by the missing people, stolen for “the good of the economy”
then why isn’t the economy any good? huh? noble sacrifice? what f***g nobility? the nobility of a short pointless life?
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“If just enough of us stood up, if just enough of us said to the managers and companies ”
Don’t hold your breath. Americans won’t.
and no, humanity is not worth saving.
…in the least. A blip on the radar screen of evolution that learned how to destroy one another, made some nice music and art, eradicated themselves through their own short sightedness and greed, and left behind a planet full of their trash.
Bad as our economy is, alas i personally see the problem runs deeper. Nature would have us dying at age 40, diseased to the point where we begged not to live so long, would have us scratching our existence off the rocks. (De)volved with bodies that aren’t of any real use we’d not only starve but also get destroyed by the conditions of a perfect for life planet with our useless forms.
We’d be – and by extension of history – are ground to dust just trying to survive at all. This economy is only an extension of our desperate need to survive and compete with eachother for the abundant resources that humans are to weak to obtain in nature. Our big brains that – by some theories – were paid for by us losing physical usefulness, were meant to compensate. To a point they have and did in the years before trade based society grew and hijacked our problem solving abilities.
Having to make money is no different whatsoever from having to desperately find food and shelter. As I have chimed many times before, the mere existence of an economy mitigates and invalidates any and all technological development we have made. We are still scratching our lives off the rocks, not with the assistance of, no…but rather in spite of our technological progress.
And thus, with useless bodies, a brain that failed to balance the de-evolution, our stratospheric compensation for our abyssal depth of inadequacy has resulted in a malignant tumour upon the earth. That will teach nature/G-d/net consciousness etc. for evolving us so cheap…put a better effort in next time?