The World as We Think We Know It

There’s a lot of things about life that I just don’t like. War, disease, poverty, famine, senseless killings….the list is endless. Thankfully I am in a position where the big problems aren’t in my face every day. Not to say that I am numb to them but it’s easy to fall out of touch with those things when you turn CNN off. (I hate CNN by the way, all they do is lie) That’s not to say that I don’t think about those things and feel sorry for the millions of people who suffer and perish in much worse conditions than I do.  On a personal level, I hate the fact that money is ruining everything awesome about life, and my life specifically. The saying money is the root of all evil, it didn’t come from nowhere. It’s true. People say it all the time, but I don’t think the majority really think about what that means. I find it funny that the more “grown” I become I realize “grown-up” problems aren’t really that much different than childish problems. Also that some of the “grown-ups” running this place don’t think like they have any sort of wisdom with age.

All the pain and suffering in the world could be prevented if we wanted it too. Most every problem, every headache, every fight, all the evil….it all stems from money. I’ve watched money ruin people I know. I’ve felt that evil in my heart of hanging onto something and not sharing with another in need because it’s “mine”.  Greed is a bitch. We’ve all been raised and indoctrinated to worship greed. Our society is a big game of who can collect the most shit. Individuals have proven time and time again that they will do horrific acts to get what they want. All in the name of what? Money? What the heck is money anyways? What did people do before money? Does anyone really know? Does anyone really even care? Are we all too busy and consumed in our super important lives to stop and think about what it is we are actually doing and who or what we are doing it for?

I’m tired of playing the game. I know many of you who have probably played longer and harder than I have, have to be sick to your stomach and ready for change. I mean real CHANGE, not the kind politicians promise. The problem is the system is broken. Well that’s not even really the problem, the problem is the system was designed to fail for the majority and succeed for a select amount of people. The problem is when they are “fixing” problems they aren’t addressing the actual problem (the entire system). Instead they are trying to patch it up to appear like it could be better or they purposefully make it worse and call it something fancy regular folks don’t take the time to try and understand. At what point do you stop throwing money at a broken appliance and just get a newer more efficient one that gets the job done better?

Everyone is a slave to money. We think we need it. We can’t envision a world without it. It has us by the balls and we will do whatever it takes to make it happy. We will watch people perish because they don’t have enough. We will lie, steal and cheat to get it.  Bad company corrupts good morals, well i guess money is the bad company and we’re all best friends with it. We don’t always like it, but we like it enough to just talk shit about it behind its back but keep it around. Will it ever end?

Is capitalism really the best way to live? Does it really make sense to consume as much as possible and gather as much “wealth” as you can while others suffer or work their butts off to just have the bare necessities. Where are the truly happy people? Even if you’re rich you still have problems with money, their just on a bigger scale. Money is debt. Money is slavery. From the moment you are born you become a red negative number.  From that point on anything you ever want to do becomes an addition to your negative number.  Eating, Sleeping, Pooping, Education; basically breathing. I mean technically you can breathe for free but you can’t do anything else and two weeks later you will probably die of dehydration/starvation.  People make the big decisions in their life not based on what they want to do or what brings them happiness but rather what they can or cannot afford.  Money has put a serious damper on your ability to live a free and happy life.   Even when you die you are still a red negative number. It doesn’t make sense that it costs money to die. This system sure does make life seem like a burden. Someone somewhere surely must be making all the money and having all the fun.

Not to say that you can’t find happiness, joy and good in the world. Because you can. I do it every day. But does anyone really ever just do exactly what they want and have fun? Does anyone rest their head at night and not feel a care in the world? Is it crazy to think that we could or even should be able to do that?

Imagine with me for a second that money is no longer around. What would we do? Would we run around pillaging and stealing and taking what we could? Maybe. What if we had some organization?

What if everyone did exactly what they wanted to do all the time for nothing more than the simple joy they knew it would bring to others? What if people found passion in their life? What if we took away the selfishness of life. People could do things not based on what they would get in return but what they could give and contribute to the whole. Everyone could spend their day being active experiencing anything they wanted to. No one would be left out. The beautiful thing about ourselves is that we all have unique skills and enjoy different things. If we didn’t have to worry about money we could just do it. There are so many people all the passions would be covered. People wouldn’t just do one thing. They’d do lots of things because they could. You wouldn’t be defined and restrained by something that only exists because of the blind faith you put into it.

This is the world I want to live in and one day it will be so.