antwone
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I had to quote this because it's so precisely right. Society wants nothing from you but for you to be successful, and if you aren't successful you are quite simply ignored, trampled, and spat upon. If you do not have the qualities that society deems worthy then you do not deserve happiness, or food, or shelter. If you do not have the qualities that society deems usefull then you do not deserve a beautiful wife, or happy life, or anything that makes people smile.
I know this is true, I read it on the Newstands and see it on the TVs.
If you don't serve your purpose you are laughed at, ridiculed, and generally left to die of disease and starvation in the streets of some horribly overpopulated city.
That why parents act the way they do around their children, they have to act that way in order to ensure that their children never stray FROM WHAT SOCIETY DEEMS USEFUL.
The whole system at large has wound itself so tightly that the people inside are beginning to find it harder to breath, harder to understand, and almost impossible to be comfortable with.
Perhaps it isn't capitalism per-se, though it is fataly flawed, more likely it's just another repetition of human greed and shortsightedness so severe that every hedonistic act it sets out upon is a negation of it's future well-being.
Perhaps the greatest irony of it all is that all these grabbers, these tyrants, who manipulate and abuse the natural world and the people for their own pathetic ends, they have all been toppled and brought down and made to suffer greatly in their fall. But, thats not the irony, thats not the natural justice of the thing, the trully fascinating aspect is that tyrants always die for nothing, tyrants that follow fallen tyrants never learn from each other, they follow each other into the same gaping maw of failure and pain that haunts the entire history of dictators, supreme rulers, and presidents of the world.
Rise and fall, rise and fall, rise and fall, the only things that stay the same are the things that never were.
I have realised this is what religion is for, so the tyrants can convince themselves that the mighty hand they reign with is governed by a holy force beyond their own. To me that is the greatest trick they perpetrate on themselves, the supreme irony; that in the end, on their deathbeds, when all should be reconciled and made good with the world, there will but nothing... For alas, the gods themselves never were but a figment of their own imaginations.
| Originally posted by Iron_Dreamer I feel the same way, but I'm not even old enough to buy a beer! Right now U.S. children are treated more like machines then people, with people only considering the future earning ability or lack thereof. |
I had to quote this because it's so precisely right. Society wants nothing from you but for you to be successful, and if you aren't successful you are quite simply ignored, trampled, and spat upon. If you do not have the qualities that society deems worthy then you do not deserve happiness, or food, or shelter. If you do not have the qualities that society deems usefull then you do not deserve a beautiful wife, or happy life, or anything that makes people smile.
I know this is true, I read it on the Newstands and see it on the TVs.
If you don't serve your purpose you are laughed at, ridiculed, and generally left to die of disease and starvation in the streets of some horribly overpopulated city.
That why parents act the way they do around their children, they have to act that way in order to ensure that their children never stray FROM WHAT SOCIETY DEEMS USEFUL.
The whole system at large has wound itself so tightly that the people inside are beginning to find it harder to breath, harder to understand, and almost impossible to be comfortable with.
Perhaps it isn't capitalism per-se, though it is fataly flawed, more likely it's just another repetition of human greed and shortsightedness so severe that every hedonistic act it sets out upon is a negation of it's future well-being.
Perhaps the greatest irony of it all is that all these grabbers, these tyrants, who manipulate and abuse the natural world and the people for their own pathetic ends, they have all been toppled and brought down and made to suffer greatly in their fall. But, thats not the irony, thats not the natural justice of the thing, the trully fascinating aspect is that tyrants always die for nothing, tyrants that follow fallen tyrants never learn from each other, they follow each other into the same gaping maw of failure and pain that haunts the entire history of dictators, supreme rulers, and presidents of the world.
Rise and fall, rise and fall, rise and fall, the only things that stay the same are the things that never were.
I have realised this is what religion is for, so the tyrants can convince themselves that the mighty hand they reign with is governed by a holy force beyond their own. To me that is the greatest trick they perpetrate on themselves, the supreme irony; that in the end, on their deathbeds, when all should be reconciled and made good with the world, there will but nothing... For alas, the gods themselves never were but a figment of their own imaginations.
