Hamster Life

There is no doubt that a community and the collective matter and make for a well-functioning society. The individual, however, has the right to live within AND without. Reducing the value of the individual to his/her membership in either a community or a collective alone diminishes the individual and forces him/her to live a hamster life.

That’s not a “conspiracy theory”. We live a hamster life in a well-oiled collective system of selling and buying; therefore, life is about selling and buying. You sell yourself and your time to have money to buy things. You don’t exist as an individual. You won’t last a day without selling or buying. You are totally helpless and unprepared to survive outside of the selling and buying system. You have no time to live because you’re constantly busy either selling or buying. (Obviously, of the two, buying is much more gratifying, which is why so many of us are in debt.) The little time you have to think is being hijacked by the media (TV, social media, or Internet) that constantly lures you into buying things you don’t need.

Among the secrets of life is this one: sell a lot but buy as little as possible. Personal property always declines in value. Financial assets are more durable.

A human being isn’t supposed to live in a hamster wheel. Life isn’t about becoming an impressive hamster. It isn’t about impressing hamsters. Don’t compete on having. Don’t try to become the fastest hamster on the wheel. Why be a hamster and live a hamster life in the first place?….