We need to stop lying to ourselves, there is more to life than economics, yet every aspect of life has been commodified and there is no escaping it other than isolation and self-deception. Yet we are communal creatures.
No individual can effectively go back to an agrarian lifestyle by themselves. Oppression happens at the collective level, not individual. We participate every day. Social shame for thinking differently than what has been shown to lead to success and power (wealth).
WHY DO FOLKS ARGUE IN FAVOUR OF CONTINUING IN ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY? This is fact, not opinion. Greed does not justify homelessness and child poverty.
So many people think collectivism based societies means giving up; personal freedoms, being able to contribute in their own way, ability to be successful, being themselves, ability to self-express or foster a unique personality etc.. That viewpoint is so far off the mark. Competition does not bolster humanity as a species, working together does. None of us are all important, but we are all unique and deserving of a free and dignified life at the expense of a small few psychopathic resource hoarders.
Competition in every aspect of our lives and in the way we think of ourselves in relation to others is based on economic principles. We must think about how to change or we will continue being shortchanged by fools who believe in their self-importance and worship economics.
Lineage, geography, circumstances and the economic stability of one's parents shouldn't bar access to what should be a human rights around the globe. The necessary conditions for children to flourish free of restraint with a guaranteed dignified standard of living thereafter.
For humanity to flourish we need a free, encouraging and nurturing environment for children. The only thing holding back massive utopian levels of change is people in positions of power, wealth, abundance, influence and privilege afraid of losing what they have. Prevented by greed, fear, willful ignorance and cowardice. Truly disgraceful to see my fellow human reduced to such a mockery of their purported ideals. We would all flourish under the fundamentality of unity.
Instead we are fed constant messages of division and everyone clamors with their own small and insignificant opinions obfuscating what should be the truth unclouded by ideology.
Question everything. Always doubt, always think with deliberate intent, always question the validity of the content you consume. Is there an agenda, bias, intellectual dishonesty or logical fallacies? Is there someone trying to gain something from you; wealth, status, sex or power?
Practice caution against dogmatic belief as it is easy to convince someone that something is true if they want to believe it is, or if they are afraid that it is. Belief systems that preach no personal responsibility about the way you interact with the world are pitiable.
Don't pin all your hopes on technology, businesses or politicians helping us, we have to save ourselves and not be tricked into feeling content because we believe in something/someone. We all need to act to provide a better future for the coming children of humanity as future generations are as much an extension of ourselves as our own children.
We should all be rooting for each other to realize our potential, leading to an abandonment of economic slavery and artificial scarcity.
Unfortunately most people believe other individuals think like them and if they are selfish/greedy/full of desire/ignorant/a perpetual follower/unable to separate success and wealth/opportunistic/negative etc.. They have this assumption that others will behave the same way and there needs to be people in positions of authority and leadership to tell us what to do.
There is neuroscience confirming the adage “power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely”. The brain rewires itself not only when one attains wealth/power, but when one desires power/wealth. This is the result of an evolutionary instinct that served to protect us in the past.
As our society equates success with power / wealth, and we don't really have a dignified alternative for the youth to seek freedom, pretty much everyone is limiting their potential perceptional abilities and preventing expanding thought patterns.
The lack of authenticity being displayed by virtually every single human who has something to lose, or desires to gain something, is so horrifying and hurts one's soul to the core.
It has resulted in an intrinsic conflation of freedom (which is natural and instinctual for every human to yearn for), being successful and wealth (resource hoarding). Generally people want to contribute, be successful, be free, be themselves, self-express, foster a unique personality etc..
Unfortunately the success we crave under nepotistically restricted capitalism, or what could better be called feudalistic consumerism, comes at the price of one's soul to the monster of greed. This vile impulse suppresses one's natural instincts for generosity and altruism. It promotes individualism at the expense of societal health and willfully ignorant egoism.
What can be said other than “This embarrassment, this global failure of a purported 'advanced' society hurts the heart and soul”.
How have we lost our way like this. Please let everyone wake up and find the power within themselves to help change the world for the betterment of future generations.
The current systems of democracy allow for the easy mental alleviation of personal responsibility of shaping a better world for future generations from the common citizen. Allows for easier absorption of ideologies and doctrine that promote division, hatred and greed. These vile concepts are learned, not inherent human traits as most believe.
Where is the international code of conduct regarding some basics like income discrepancy between different levels of employees, ethical conduct in regards to foreign workers, revisions in advertisement structures, ecological initiatives, transparency and ethical objectives that must be adhered to by multi-national corporations in order to operate in “civilized” countries. They do not abide, they lose their assets and cannot operate in country.
Marketing needs to die. Look into high-level advertising theory and tell me it isn't evil to intentionally incept brand familiarity into children for the purposes of unconscious bias during shopping decisions later in life.
The Folgers jingle is clearer in my mind than the face of my deceased Father, and that fact brings anger to the forefront of my active mind. Sickening to the very core of my soul.
Demanding nationalization of all industries that human life and success is dependant on is so obvious. Who can argue that it is moral to profit off of human misery, human life, the future living standards of our children just because we have gotten thus far being in the wrong. There must be another way. Unity against greed.
Let our children work for nationalized industries dedicated to helping others reach their potential and refrain from the decadent form of life known as profit-seeking if they so desire.
Once we collectively realize, every single one of us has the ability to change the world through informing ourselves, being intellectually aware of our sphere of influence and uniting against greed, fear and willful ignorance, we will be truly free.