What if there is more opportunity than ever right now?

But it is part of the design of the elites to brainwash you into believing your at the most incapable and hopeless part of your life right now. That your fucked, that you can do nothing...

When really, this point in time in history is when we need to be at our VERY BEST in order to build a new world and better system.

What if the all this shit of the economy, recession, inflation and what not is just part of the design to massly depress people in order to try to suppress there will and their instinct to build a new world and system to completely surpass the existing one.

 

I don't think in terms of this as 'if' but that it is truth, man - it is definitely truth. Media wants us addicted to unhealthy obsessive behaviors, so that we buy things to make us feel adequate.

not to mention that most the crap we buy would ONLY be bought by us, and not even by the people making money off of it.

i was thinking about something similar earlier today actually. i was watching a program about how our society is SO dependent on electricity. it got me thinking...before electricity, we were once dependent on steam/coal/combustion(of unrefined fuel) for light and mechanical energy. electricity since took the place of those things (which had taken the places of previous modes of production - manual labor)

soon (or not) we will surpass the efficiency of electricity. there will be a new method of energy and production


much in the same way, there will be brought forth a new way of living - but only if people realize this, and realize the ways we are being taken advantage of and marginalized as commodities

 

grass grows the best when there is more bullshit going on it..

 

probably neither more nor less, but also probably outside of any context an average person is likely to think of. even this matter of defining what is meant by opportunity. opportunity for what? opportunity to do and be what each of us individually were born and are meant to be and do? quite likely. opportunity to stab a fat hog in the ass where little green pieces of paper are involved? probably not.

 

i think that was probably my infancy.

 

I think it's easy to point your finger at a boogie man pulling strings behind a curtain, but I think our problems are caused simply by overpopulation.

 

There's no less opportunity than before, or no more. It's just that the opportunities aren't nearly as attractive to Americans as they were before. Shiny things and smart phones are our BFFs now, and are put before us to focus on rather than the real goings on. Most people would rather play Angry Birds on their droid than learn about the Occupy Movement.

Mass consumerism has bred an apathy like no other. It's a disposable society in the making, and we are not immune to the recycling process ourselves. It's gonna get ugly.

 

dude those days you can get a tan from a can
what more opportunities u need?

 

is ineffectively protesting really an opportunity though?

 

^If nothing else one could say it's an opportunity to have an experience and story to tell. One that will probably be in the textbooks one day and you'll be able to tell your kids that you were part of it.

Anyway, theories such as these have been around since pretty much the beginning of capitalism/the free market. Because it has forced people to feel like mindless cogs in a machine and brainwashed them into believing that happiness is something to be purchased and enhancing yourself means doing so in the standardized ways that society parades. Marcuse was all over this.

 

I have all the opportunity in the world, but little means to get far.
I need to hurry up and decide some college business, people want to give me money for my test scores.

 

Play angry birds or learn about angry people?

Personally I would rather play angry birds. It is generally not a good idea to give into a childs tantrum.

 

Money will buy you freedom.
To me freedom is happiness.
So money will buy me happiness.

It became some common saying that 'you cant buy happiness'.
Which could be true, but not having your ideal living conditions, having to stress about your car breaking down, never being able to fly to a foreign country for an extended vacation, having to always fuck with old shitty computers because you can't buy a new one, having to spend 40 hours a week working a job you don't like, getting to the age of 50 without any substantial amount of money saved up to retire, having to work till you die to live. Those are all some things that can sure make you pretty fucking depressed, that money could 'undepress' you from. Perhaps you won't be HAPPY but atleast you won't be buried under hopelessness depressed.

Having 50 million dollars vs 2 million dollars probably won't make you hugely more happy. But making 200,000 a year instead of 20,000 a year (AT A JOB YOU LOVE) will make you incredibly happier.

 

certainly a contributing cause to all of them, and would still cause many of them without the help of anything else. nearly everything that is a problem for the environment is only because there are so many of us to each add a little bit to it, that adds up a big problem.

their are one or two other things we can change more quickly then long term solutions to the population problem. which, along with them, certainly needs to be addressed. simply put, stop burning oil and coal and put something in the water to lower human fertility without bias or exception.

we need to stop putting little green pieces of paper ahead of what needs to be done and pretending to call doing so freedom.

economic interests may have people they can be blamed on, but they'd be doing the same harm it the deck chairs were re-arrainged.

it's not like we don't HAVE the technology to completely replace oil, coal, and nuclear.

we need to get rid of policies that are just as ignorant as my (mundane world/real world/next door) neighbor is at this moment demonstrating, by pretending that thoughtlessness is freedom.

 

Opportunity is what each person has and if they choose to action that they have choices.

 

Good post!!

In principle, I must agree that most "..would rather play Angry Birds on their droid than learn..." However, haven't we, as a people, by engaging in "mass consumerism", only created and empowered those many now denigrate; the system many now protest?

Those "shiny things" put before us are so placed by our desire to have them -- we're an easy mark. Are we blaming others for our own short-sightedness?

 

There is more opportunity than ever.

Yes the system is designed to entrap you. But anyone who is willing can rise above it.

 

Exactly !!!

 

Has anyone beat Angry Birds - Birdday Party yet or what?