This is certainly petty, but there are bigger problems than this. Much bigger. Corporations that perpetuate a system where money is more important than anything else are the real bad guys.
23 February 2011
The Country I Live In
Privately commissioned, individual owners of a wide variety of trucks, who happen to also have a plows on the fronts of them, plow the parking lots of corporations before our own government cleans the road for all its citizens. I am unable to see the lanes of traffic, cars are sliding about, and traffic lights trigger improperly, all because of the snow. And all of this occurs while Burger King and Walmart have a spotless premises.
09 February 2011
Our Planet
Money is a coupon you exchange for goods that you need (or oftentimes merely "want," sadly). The ultimate goal of life and existence--past, present, and future--should not be to acquire something as meaningless and worthless as money.
The only thing that matters to a living organism is happiness, or more simply, well-being. The slavery we subject ourselves to in order to earn a worthless coupon is, by itself, unacceptable. The fact that we then redeem it for goods that we usually don't need is another travesty altogether. Society tells us to consume to be happy, but that is not how to obtain happiness. By paying into the system, we encourage greed and perpetual production of cheap, equally worthless products, mirroring the false pursuit of money.
The products we buy with our worthless dollars are cheap, unnecessary, degrade our culture, and pollute this planet we depend on simply to sustain our existence. Why are these products made? What is the ultimate goal? Money--nothing more.
And with money comes the ability to control the distribution of goods. Time passes, and more and more money is earned by corporations. Yet they still want more as they continue to produce sub-standard products. Products that break down too soon, products that don't last, and products that cannot adequately perform the tasks which they are designed to do.
They've bought you, they've bought the government, they've bought the country, and they've bought the entire planet. All with a coupon that isn't real to begin with. We keep working, earning, and spending, thus handing over more and more power. The money in a money driven economy, despite its power in reality, is the most powerful force.
But why empower something that, in a natural world where true happiness and well-being can be attained, simply doesn't exist? Because we've made a mistake, and it's time to change the way things are done on this planet.
The time is now.
The only thing that matters to a living organism is happiness, or more simply, well-being. The slavery we subject ourselves to in order to earn a worthless coupon is, by itself, unacceptable. The fact that we then redeem it for goods that we usually don't need is another travesty altogether. Society tells us to consume to be happy, but that is not how to obtain happiness. By paying into the system, we encourage greed and perpetual production of cheap, equally worthless products, mirroring the false pursuit of money.
The products we buy with our worthless dollars are cheap, unnecessary, degrade our culture, and pollute this planet we depend on simply to sustain our existence. Why are these products made? What is the ultimate goal? Money--nothing more.
And with money comes the ability to control the distribution of goods. Time passes, and more and more money is earned by corporations. Yet they still want more as they continue to produce sub-standard products. Products that break down too soon, products that don't last, and products that cannot adequately perform the tasks which they are designed to do.
They've bought you, they've bought the government, they've bought the country, and they've bought the entire planet. All with a coupon that isn't real to begin with. We keep working, earning, and spending, thus handing over more and more power. The money in a money driven economy, despite its power in reality, is the most powerful force.
But why empower something that, in a natural world where true happiness and well-being can be attained, simply doesn't exist? Because we've made a mistake, and it's time to change the way things are done on this planet.
The time is now.
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