Tuesday, April 21, 2015

A long post.

Working in a cubicle is a terrible life. Not that I'm trying to disrespect people who do it, and I guess it really depends on the cubicle you're working in. I work in one right now, doing repetitive mindless work day after day, week after week, year after year. It's difficult and odd and I don't even understand how it's a thing that people are okay with doing. I'm certainly not okay with it. It's not something I'm passionate about, it's not even something that I vaguely like.

Now let me tell you what I am passionate about, what really drives me. It's quite odd actually, and I think the place where I work matched against my passion is like putting oil and water together. you can mix and mix and mix but it will always separate. I love motivating people, I love making people feel better and giving them hope. I look at these motivational speakers everywhere and I think to myself, I want to help people. Make them realize their dreams and passions. but maybe it's not just that? I disagree with corporations and fortune 500 companies and this general idea that you have to settle when it comes to your life, that making other people money is the big deal in life. I hate that a CEO, a board of directors, a person with some fancy abbreviated title thinks that they deserve 70% of the profits while their lowest employee can barely survive.

Now I'm not saying that every person that works in a company should be getting equal shares and I'm not saying that the owner doesn't deserve a lot of money. But when you have so much money that you couldn't spend it all even if you tried, and your lowest employee can't even afford rent, see that's a n issue. That's a problem and that's what makes the world wrong.

How can people, not people companies, even let themselves do things like lobby for a lower minimum wage, lobby for more ways to underpay employees, to treat employees badly. What kind of country do we live, what kind of world do we live in? Don't tell me it's corrupt because I know that's not the case.

I believe that people are inherently good, we're not creatures of evil. Maybe misguided, or ignorant but not evil. Good people, we hold the majority here in the world, and yet by sloth, by way of laziness. Or maybe simply by way of  misinformation, we are constantly stepped on, again and again by corporations and big business.

Social media is a wasted tool. I love cats and funny jokes as much as the next guy, but the fact of the matter is, this tool that could unite all of us is a waste of time and energy. We are only ever distracted, we are only ever wasting our time. We have the ability to rally from New Jersey to Hawaii. To stand together as one in our protest of what is deemed "Minimal wage" in what is deemed "Standard of living" terms and words that are thrown about and so destroyed by liars and thieves.

How do we not stand together, how do we not make a cry. We can make a cry when a celebrity dies, we can make a sound when somebody hurts an animal, when a man is shot, when corruption and injustice is so plain to see. And yet when it's on us, when we are being accosted and destroyed and spat on. Who cries out what are we doing? Why are we even letting this happen? Almost nobody. sure there are voices, but they are so far apart and quiet next tot he white noise ofeverything else, it's hard to see, hard to know what's going on.

Information controlled by the media. News blocked by ignorance. The more ignorant we are, the more easy it is to keep us that way. Look at the Arab Spring, look at the revolutions all over the middle east and Europe.

We need that here, but as of right now, as we stand apart there's not a thing we can do. And as much as I love to speak and to motivate and to talk, I don't feel like I know how to do it. It's frustrating, but I need to figure it out. How can millions rally for Kony in 2012, but none can rally for better living conditions and better opportunity in 2015?

Why do we spend billions on the military and our public schools still suck. How can we be required to go to school and yet what we learn is useless. We are taught world history and economics of other countries. We are taught the very basics of politics, but it is not drilled into our heads and socially we believe there's not a thing we can do. Why do you need to be a certain age to run for president, why do you need to be elected by a party, why in certain states are you not even allowed to run unless you are part of one of a two party system. Questions that aren't asked can't be answered. But I think the answer to these questions are clear.

I've rambled so long and my topic so inconsistent that I wouldn't blame you for thinking I'm crazy, but I hope you understand that sometimes you just need to let it all out in order to think clearly. I hope you readers do the same.


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