Is Your Goal To Accept And Serve?
We are told to be analytical. Analysis produces pieces. Synthesis – the ability to create a whole out of parts – helps us understand the world.
We live within a system. The system has its benefits. It also has drawbacks.
• Toxins in the water supply and food are not intended to make you more intelligent or healthier.
• Aggressive wars aren’t fought to keep you safe.
• The persistent dependence on fossil fuels decimates our natural environment. It also lowers life’s quality and reduces your lifespan.
• Natural disasters aggravated by climate change (caused by our dependence on fossil fuels) are becoming more and more severe, threatening your health, life, and property.
All this stuff, whether you like it or not, whether you approve of it or not, is intended to make the already rich and powerful richer and more powerful.
Where does it leave us? Our purpose in the greater scheme of things, from birth to death, is to be revenue generators for the rich and powerful. Most of us accept and serve.
The moment you’re born, you get vaccinated. (Vaccines aren’t free.) In your productive years, you work, pay taxes, and shop. You have a baby, and here you go: medical expenses and shopping. You buy a car, use credit cards, get a bank loan or mortgage, and here we go again: you generate money for the system that enriches a few. While you’re ill, all the medical treatments benefit someone. Once you die, the funeral-related expenses make someone richer still. Most of us accept and serve.
Look around you, most people wake up and rush to work. They come back tired in the evening. Some have extra jobs because their main job alone doesn’t pay their bills. Is it a life?
The rich and powerful control what we breathe, what we drink, what we eat, how we live, how we use our time, how intelligent or educated we are, how healthy we are, how long we live, and a lot more.
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The point of the story is to recognize that we don’t decide about our lives. We live in an illusion of freedom, while in fact our lives are predetermined for us. (I don’t know whether the preposition “for” is correct in this context. It isn’t “for” but “against” us as individuals, so the select few would continuously expand their wealth and power.) And yet, most of us accept and serve.
Until we all realize that we are nothing but screws within a large machine that works against us, change isn’t possible. Meanwhile, it is up to you to decide whether you’ll accept and serve the system for the rest of your life or make your way out of the system of manipulation and exploitation.
