Value and labor have been intertwined since the days of Marx, anything worth having must be earned. The value of everything is derived from the labor involved to make it the way it is. If one is not producing, he or she loses their sense of value, and it many cases loses how to culturally define themselves. The system of production works through people who have jobs, and it depends on having future people to one day being able to inherit those jobs. Keeping production right where it needs to be; characterized by upward mobility. The only problem here is that we have gone crazy with production, everyone sees the market as their ladder to a big piece of the pie. Which people have a right to, but in reality all but the sincerest of attempts actually end up with more pie than they need; guidelines of the system. So we end up with a hordes of bad ideas, manufacturing gone awry, useless clutter that sits their depreciating waiting to be disposed of. Now in many cases you need a few bad ideas before you get a good one, that’s all good, but don’t shit out a new spring line every year just because that’s what your competitors are doing. How many times is their leftover halloween decorations marked down in the stores come November. Do they figure that everyone lost their decorations since last year, or do they just like adding clutter to the isles and make people say “The holidays are coming up quick.” We are plagued by this system that we are expected to perpetuate, barely given a fair chance. Forced into working, forced to stress and feel inadequate when you’re not producing or making a living. You may ask what else might you do if not this? Now this is true freedom, the freedom I experience in my mind can now be channeled through me, behaving how it may. Not when this live is being wrestled down to a desk job, anchored to a chair, dreams wiped off on the doormat. That job provides a service to people who have needs created by the very system that creates the jobs. An example, people who do your taxes, making one part on the system so complex that it must grow itself to accommodate for its careless over complexification. From this point on that’s all that will ever happen within the system. Consuming just to consume, the most inhuman value that has arisen out of this cultural fabric stretching, obesity. We want you to sit all day and then when your back hurts from sitting all day, come to us and we’ll give you pills that slowly turn you into a zombie and ruin your life. It all feeds into itself. Is this the place the human endeavor has brought us to over time? Or has the need to be constantly stimulated gave way to the world economy? Building people a life around comforts of the American ideal so we can be stimulated in a more artificial way. Experiencing life from behind doors, from little screens, eyes cast down avoiding the light of day. It is not all bad, maybe we’re right where we need to be. Although sometimes society feels like an uncomfortable shoe when I just want to be barefoot. A happiness, a contentedness comes from within you, within relationships. We’ve had those times when you’re with a person and you feel in that moment you don’t need anything else. Those are what life should be based around, not a system that we need vacations from. Build a life around happiness, whatever that means to you.
Tag: Society
Nature, then Something else entirely…. Literally
Are some people content with not achieving great things? If giving the opportunity who wouldn’t? Many of us settle with what we can get by with. Is that because his or her dreams seem to far away? Is it the way a person is raised from a young age, or the environment they’re born into? Are some people just more naturally driven towards success and power while others are happy with what life gives them. Perspective is everything, I could wake up each morning and be happy with the food, comfort, and security that many of us desirer so badly. But even then unless I am a monk or an removed from society, that wouldn’t satisfy me or most people as it appears. Does this show us a glimpse of human nature? That if a person knows what is possible economically then he or she won’t rest a day till they are satisfied. But in early agrarian civilizations I think it is known that people didn’t behave this way. Or perhaps whoever grew the most wheat got the most women? Since our physical needs are accommodated so easily in modern society that it allows us to be creative and competitive. Then why aren’t all of us driven the same way as other? Is it television’s fault? Maybe a person does believe he or she is doing great things and that alone is enough for that person. In that case what is the determining factor between that person and any successful figure that has worked their way to the top. Where I arrive at now is that people are different, interest and what makes them happy. We are all born with different skill and ability, therefore what makes one person happy does not have to apply to the next. Why and How? If you believe in destiny then I know your answer. Or is that just what makes humans so successful, interesting and beautiful creatures. We vary more than any other known species, but we know that our genetic make up only differs by less than 1%. So it has to be our awesome brains then. It is true that some people are born with higher intelligence than others, but does that cross over to drive and competitiveness. Are others just more animalistic which causes them to want to out do his or her neighbor.
If you live in America you were told that competition is good, a sort of laissez faire mentality; and in sports it is completely necessary. But perhaps we have reached a point of interconnectedness through the internet, that if something is good people are going to find out about it. The reason we have a hundred different brands of toilet paper is because someone thinks that it is profitable to sell it. Lets say we got ride of every single unnecessary company and job and only kept business that sold a good product or service at a fair price, and anyone else was told to go home and do the thing they love. Perhaps you wouldn’t need a job, perhaps for every Facebook like you got was worth a bit coin or some sort of adjusted currency that if you were to express yourself online and when people like it it would be profitable. Maybe you had to work a real job that people in a functioning society depends on i.e. construction worker. work as that for till a certain age then if you feel ready you could stop and pick up a hobby or do what ever it is you love. There would constantly be a new body of employees ready to put in there time. If it turns out that working in a restaurant is what makes you happy you would be free to do it for as long as you liked, obviously earning more than you would as on the peer rewarded retirement so to speak.
I’m going to end it there, my point being is, I think there is a better way to run a society, who knows what the future will hold for us, with nano technology and such, where are we going on this crazy ride. 
Walk Where You Want 