Our world rate wealth over courage and comfort over commitment, we think that nothing will ever disturb our lives, we are surprised when people get sick and die, we think that technology can fix everything, we take our safety for granted, we have more degrees but less sense, we have more medicine but less wellness, we have added years to life, but not life to years, we build everything bigger, but not necessarily better, we have more convenience but less time, we have more communication but less understanding, we make heroes out of actors but have no idea who the real heroes are.
~a faceless, nameless army personell
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Verbose
"All of the crimes committed by the highest, wisest, most principled species the planet have ever produced shows that beyond a doubt; that we are also the lowest, craziest, most blood drenched species. This is our shame, our Paradox."
~ A Moral Ape
There are people who describe the behavior of Homo-sapiens (Man-smart) as nothing more then an effort to get as many genes as possible into the next generation.
Freud has already nailed this point in his essays on Human Sexuality. More specifically the Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. But I am not here to discuss his Essays. What I am here to discuss is about you. Yes, the individual who moves through life without knowing your impact or role in the grand scheme of things.
Why do we do what we do? Following the norms and mores of today’s society, we are convinced by people in positions of “authority” that the best if not only route towards self sustenance is via the acumination of wealth, by wealth I mean monetary wealth. The generation which is hemoglobin of our great cities is infected with the vastly temporal “religion” of money-chasing. Submerged in this religion one easily forgets that money is a means to an end, and not a means in itself.
But how often does one question in depth to what ends does this wealth serve them? Does it even serve them well? Does it, after all that’s been said and done, doest it make one happier?
There are people who describe the behavior of Homo-sapiens (Man-smart) as nothing more then an effort to get as many genes as possible into the next generation.
Freud has already nailed this point in his essays on Human Sexuality. More specifically the Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. But I am not here to discuss his Essays. What I am here to discuss is about you. Yes, the individual who moves through life without knowing your impact or role in the grand scheme of things.
Why do we do what we do? Following the norms and mores of today’s society, we are convinced by people in positions of “authority” that the best if not only route towards self sustenance is via the acumination of wealth, by wealth I mean monetary wealth. The generation which is hemoglobin of our great cities is infected with the vastly temporal “religion” of money-chasing. Submerged in this religion one easily forgets that money is a means to an end, and not a means in itself.
But how often does one question in depth to what ends does this wealth serve them? Does it even serve them well? Does it, after all that’s been said and done, doest it make one happier?
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