The Carnival and life in Baca are great. I{ve put just a couple photos up so far…but tommorrow i should have a bunch more.
Now…there was a question posed…a friend said this looking for discussion……”a friend told me that people hate wise people. That it is the case with Walmart (walmart works hard to keep people from asking questions about their business practices and products). They are hated because they are smart and rich! So what the hell do ‘we’ want?”
my quick response….
Now, as for what “we” want, interesting question. We want to live in a “relative” world with no pain or problems, no excessive thinking, no anxiety, no worries, no depression. These things are easier to avoid if we “forget” shit and stop asking questions, confronting the true nature of things like how the big wigs at walmart and well…nearly every person in the world who gets the shallow opportunity to make more than salary…would do the same…it´s natural to want to have the easy life…the life where watching TV instead of working…and paying someone to cook for you rather than spending a couple hours cooking…or paying a nanny to take care of your children instead of taking care of them yourself…or shit..buying breast milk from a carton instead of letting the little bugger suck on the real thing (oh no…my boobies will flap and sag afterwards!).
Call me a pessemist…but i call myself a realist. They say ignorance is bliss…. But if you know! but choose to be ignorant…what is it then? Well, it´s a whole shitload of people in this world…
Once i said … “If we are god´s midnight dream, well, surely he´s having a nightmare.”
Unfortunately i do not believe in god, so i have no one to blame but ourselves…who do you blame?
As i see myself as having a great potential to becoming rich….because i started off as one of the lucky ones in this world that comes from a family that is not dirt poor (either your dirt poor in this world, or your rich….middle class is an illusion to ease the anxiety of the rich who only inhereted a position of dominance without knowing it…) I am making concrete discions NOW on how to distribute my money as i make it.
Think about it. The only just way to make money is to share it. This morning i woke up in my hammock thinking about a business idea that i have…and i was thinking, if it becomes sucessfull, the moment i have enough money to convert it to non-profit and a school of tecnology that offers it´s courses at a nearly free cost (or depending on how much money i have…i{d prefer to give them away to those who can not afford them), i will…and in the mean time, as i´m making money…i will give some large share of free services away that is reasonable for the amount of profits i am sucking from the people who need the money more than me.
THINK ABOUT IT. that is business. sucking money from people who need it to live because they´ve come to depend on it rather than themselves. How do we justify it??
And the fan splatter comes down harder when you realize that the only way to truely make a difference in the world (on a super large scale…which is what is needed) is make billions and billions of dollars. But…can it be? Can you make billions….then turn around and make the world a more just place with a more equal distribution of money? I don´t know, and if i ever make billions of dollars and try to redistribute it….well…i probably wont know either because someone will have me killed.
IS THAT WORTH IT? is it worth leaving this finite life for the sake of the rest of the world….whom eventually all will as well die and forget all of their sufferings….
damn, or should i just be like the rest of those who have money…and truely make money, rather than scrape a little in to feed their kids and perhaps buy some satellite TV…and just ignore all that i know, and allow ignorance to be blissful to my soul. Should i just go with the flow…and continue living as if i didn´t know the purchases i make are starving people all around the world….(meaning losing the conscious thought of the fact…and not working to eventually change this…i´m not suggesting that it would be possible to just stop the purchases TODAY…because it´s not reasonable…that´s one of the problems of the day…how to balance…or shit, maybe we should just flip the system, create some caos like the anarchists and punks say! FUCK THE SYSTEM! LET IT ALL FALL! then pick up the pieces and start over…but shit…i know what´ll happen, some smartass business man thinker will take the pieces for himself and start his own puzzle….recylcing the whole damn process again…like has been done over and over in our human history….)
Peace
-Chris
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