We are all just prisoners

Two posts in one day... I know it's a bit much but maybe I'm just hyper creative today. Thoug the real reason is that I'm just a little hyper... Enjoying one of those little, wonderful, manic phases in the midst of depression. Of course, I'll pay for it tomorrow, but for the moment I'm just going to enjoy the experience. For now, just about anything's possible.

For now I'll give you some musings on modern life. Have you noticed how modern life basically sucks? Conformity to society's 'norms' has you working your tail off for 9+ hours a day so that you can enjoy 20+ days a year of rather expensive vacation time.

Basically it's a con. Wage slavery designed to subjugate the masses. It's the bondage that keeps modern economics (and global growth) going. The truth is that our hunter–gatherer ancestors only had to work on average two hours a day to keep themselves and their families fed and clothed. OK, so they were susceptible to drought and the vagueries of nature (but so are we, we just haven't faced a major natural challenge to our society in the past century or so).

The modern world is little more than a con. We're all so busy working for someone else and trying to live our lives in the interstices of time that are left to us that we don't consider what our lives would be like if we didn't have to do this. And even if we do consider downsizing we're often far too locked-in to the vagueries of modern life (call that an euphemism for debt) that we can't afford to do that.

All this ignores the fact that money itself is a sham. A con trick bought into by the western world because if people didn't believe in it they'd be penniless. Ultimately it becomes a self-sustaining myth. A bunch of nonsense where we work for the edification of someone else and the ruination of our own lives.