Don’t you ever feel torn between multiple paths – different rights and wrongs? Your space, your job, your friends, your family and your “formal” education bring it all into play. What you want may not be what is responsible, “right”, or plausible but you still hope that it can be achieved? Where is that point were you just say WTF? Why is that not part of most people’s repertoire of thought? Most of the time it is in mine, shoved in some memory closet of my mind, but that voice called a conscious brings be back to responsibility when ever I don’t want to show up to work or play the game or discipline myself from my financial engagements. It seems that money is the cage that hinders my visions, but I really think it’s my own perception of that cage forced into my mind by society, like Christianity on the Native Americans, that keeps me entertaining these thoughts. We are all bread and raised to think we are going to be great, Rockstars, or even just popular…Then the majority of us get jobs that really don’t mean anything. What am I working for? To pay my debts, to buy a better life or to live it? Where is my life going? And what does society ask of me? “So where are you going with this whole career thing?” …… too many questions…..maybe you have the answers…. What’s with this intellectual rhetoric lately? This is supposed to be a forum of interest not preaching. Well I often entertain many powerful thoughts of Tyler Durden (Fight Club). One relevant quote :: “Fuck off with your soap units and string bean stripe pads. I say never be complete. I say stop being perfect. I say let’s evolve! Let the chips fall where they may!”
Don’t you find it ironic that the very institutions that instill and perpetuate the desire to collect consumer goods that aren’t really necessary are the same people who make films like Fight Club? A film, which in many respects goes against the grain and openly, challenges consumerism. You got to love the media!
Well as a disclaimer, I have to say this is actually the first time I have had a high responsibility job, and I absolutely love it. I like the challenge of it despite the fact I am feeding the consumerism. I justify it because I provide a solution that promotes security and solidarity of capitalism, rather than trying to just make a quick buck. Besides my company is number one in our market! We all wish we had those 4 day work weeks though…2 years…2 years…tick tock…
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