I love to work. Always have. I also loved raising my children. There is an interesting trend toward putting children into day care, nanny's or something like it so that both parents can work outside the home. Both parents can make more money to consume more of our natural resources. Ultimately, that IS what happens.
A neighbor was reading the book, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin. I can't read any more of these books. They simply waste paper to tell us what we already know. The history of humankind in an unevolved society is about power, money and greed. Show me one case where it is not. Simply put, we academize everything. We plot some economical strategy to explain how things are. They are the way they are because of these simply things - the quest to control.
Moreover, I can safely say this having studied a lot of this bs myself at Cornell, Rutgers, med school, etc. Only in a poorly evolved culture is it them vs. us.
Why do we partner? Marry? We want an 'us." I loved being an 'us.' I long to be an us again. With the
right person. But that doesn't preclude expanding the us to a larger circle. The spiral continues enveloping others. While I do not think people can get beyond their own egos, I do believe we can do it better than we are.
In a short amount of time, people have destroyed natural resources, one another, families, nature. What's next?
People ought to be able to live reasonably well, cutting their hours back to raise families, take more time to just 'be.' I am just not so sure being productive is what it is all about. We produce far more than we need. Just look at the racks of clothing, over-abundant supply of pharmaceuticals, so-called food (and that is debatable because it isn't nutritious) while many starve because of lack of access to it.
And here I have done it. Written another article (do we really need more articles to tell us what we already know?).
Viva la revolution. But this time - a revolution in thought.
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