The common person gets up. We'll call them bill, or jane. Bill or jane gets up every morning, and goes to work for any regular place of work. They would go for a jog, but the previous nights alcoholic indulgences had left a groggy laziness to their mood. They feel bad that they're not doing enough to keep fit and stay healthy, and they would have health insurance, and a gym membership, but they bought Sky+, and one of those Ab-9000's from channel 754, and gave it to Gran for X-Mas. At least they made the effort. Bill or jane go to work so they can afford to keep going to work. They invest their earnings in whatever their heart desires - or so you would think. Ever since he was a child bill wanted a boat, that feeling of freedom was something he used to aspire to. Same with jane, she always wanted a horse - she had been riding with her sister and always loved that feeling of power and freedom that she felt then could take her anywhere. Now those past wants represent the desires of the adults they became, but they will not be fulfilled. They, like the majority of those in the affluent world, have sold their spirits and smashed their own dreams. They work toward building their own prison by contributing to a system intent on keeping the worker ants opiated on their own cultural and social excrement.
You know, considering your name is "Free Will" one would think you would have figured out why the people you described live the way they live: They CHOOSE to live with that attitude. Jane can still ride horses in her spare time, and Bill can still save up his money and buy a boat. I'm not sure what the point of your mini-rant was...are you suggesting we all forget about growing food, providing ourselves with shelter, and just ride horses all day? Life isn't about being happy 24/7. If that's your goal, get ready to lead a dissapointing life. Oh, and newsflash: Alot of people work hard in school, get a good education, and then, thanks to their hard work, are able to have nearly any job they want. Yes, some may have to work harder than others, but we're all hear to learn something, and it does no good to complain when you yourself choose the attitude. BTW: You are not a slave. Nor are the fictional characters in your story. If you'd like to learn more about REAL slavery, go here: http://www.iabolish.com
In many ways, people (americans) really are slaves. We can't buy a house or a car without "credit". Many people live in HOA areas, which obviously puts major limitations on freedom. What you own ends up owning you. You save up money to buy a car and a house, but you have a morgage and car payments to pay, so you keep working. Then you meet some girl(or guy) and end up having kids. So you sell your house and move into bigger one, and start the payments on your new house and car all over again. Then you die, but you forgot to make a will, so the government takes it all away, and your family ends up on the street. Really, americans have shit. Anything we think we own, we don't. Now, just because we're up to our assholes with car payments and morgage and life insurance and college debt does'nt mean we can't be free. Money is freedom, in this country. As bleak as it sounds, it's the truth. If you work your ass off, go to school and get a good job, you'll have the money to do whatever you want. Even with out the TV and the magazines and the billboards feeding us bullshit, no one wants to live like a bum, so you work. The "system" is not some big government conspiracy to keep us working, the system is life. Always has been and always will be. PS: Freewill, you sound like rod serling
I think that we are slaves. We are born in this country so that we may go to school and be trained to dedicate our lives for the betterment of society. We go to school for an average of 20 years maybe a bit more. Then we work our asses off to live, and enjoy things that they tell us makes us happy. Then when we are 65. starting to get sick, senile, etc then we are free. Your retired woohoo! Its just a wonderful cycle, and some people actually do break free. They either say fuck you to the gov, or get rich.
well, stop buying bullshit. don't buy into the system, and only buy what you absolutely need (water, food, rent, and transportation). if you live like that, you shouldn't have to slave away. I mean, as sad as it is, work is necessary in order to survive in this country, but you can minimize the amount you have to work, by not buying worthless and trivial shit. It's so sad that society has so many people brainwashed into wanting this and that. You don't need it, and once you stop being attached to those wants, you'll feel much free-er. you can't really be rich, and free. if you want to be free, you'll have to give up that bullshit dream of riches (that you'll probably never attain, anyway).
Well thanks God, i like to see someone agrees . Strawberry Fields, my whole point was that Bill and Jane will never get their pony or their pretty little yacht, and that somewhere along the way they've allowed what they wanted as a child to be washed away and put on a billboard and sold back to them as their own living MIND-PRISON. My rant was a tangent from the regular "I hate the system!" or "look what Bush did again" content that usually litter the halls of Hipforums. So what if the country's led by Duche-bags ( the U.S....oooh and mine as well - england ) doesn't give the rest of the population an excuse to be as apathetic. Oh and the people I describe are eventually turned into Shee-people, baahing and bleeting along with the rest of the flock at the outsiders, as their Guardian, the Great and Powerful Farmer/Shepard, sharpens his knifes and gears up for the cull. We ARE slaves. The fact is that if you work under the £ or the $ you are working for a system which is out to fuck you over. If you have no hope of this system ending you are doing yourself an indignaty and you are in effect kiilling your children and their future world. ps. for those that want interesting and rewarding careers in marketing, law, publishing, as a pilot - Higher Education so to speak...Well Done, Don't take life too seriously, visit www.2012.com and use your intellect in only positive ways....you might save the world. pps. any bill and janes reading, i'm sorry! And they're only simple stereotypical constructs i know, but this isn't the place for essay writing.
