Why We Are So Frustrated
According to some medical theories, our bodies are engineered to
live for at least 120 years. Even with the disease fighting
advances in medicine, I doubt that most of us will ever be able
to live that long. The reason is basically that life is just too
mentally trying, and we are slowly killing or mutating our cells
with our minds because of our daily challenges.
Most people are addicted to something. Alcohol, smoking, drugs,
gambling, sex are some common addictions. Most of us probably
know why we need these addictions. The more corporate our
society becomes, the more frustrated we become. Forty years ago
you can buy a car in few minutes with some money and a
hand-shake. Last time I bought a car it took four hours to
complete the paperwork and that was fast according to the
dealer. To get even a menial job now requires a resume, filling
out a complicated application form, getting a drug test, getting
a security check, and in some cases even getting a credit check.
At work, there probably are a lot of forms that you need to fill
out during the course of the day. You may have to sit through
some boring and probably useless weekly meetings. Most people
acquired some form of debt, and those bill paying days are
exceptionally draining. Then, of course, there are all those tax
forms that need to be worked on prior to April 15th.
Someone is always trying to warn us about something. Even when
we try to watch television, there comes a "Click it or ticket"
commercial telling us to buckle our seat belts or else. When we
buy a DVD we get the famous FBI anti-piracy warning. When we
sign our income tax form they warn us that if we were not
truthful, we could be charged with perjury. Before installing a
computer program, we must accept some legal document that we
never read, nor would we understand its legalese if we ever did
read it.
In the fifties, large computers were beginning to gain
acceptance. Experts said that computers, because they would be
able to do so many menial tasks, would give us more leisure. The
computer is actually a very good machine to manage details. If
computers were left to perform the tasks of the fifties, we
would indeed be living an easy going existence. But as computers
got more sophisticated, corporate aliens invented new tasks for
them, so that presently we actually live much more hectic lives
than our parents or grandparents did back then.
I think the problem is that working people do not feel they have
control of their lives. In the past, if we did what we were
supposed to, we were rewarded with a stable life and a happy
retirement. Now governments and corporations are constantly
lying to us. Our leaders are all seeking wealth and power at the
expense of the working class. We can't believe their promises
any more. Once society begins to recognize the worth of the
individual, liquor stores and drug dealers will start going out
of business. Since corporations are getting larger, the worth of
the individual is slowly dying. Booze and drugs are here to
stay.