A new world
What is VaLuE? why do we value what we do? Look at us! Our world has no idea what value is! We pay millions to people who chase little rubber balls, we idolize and practically worship people who pretend to be someone else, yet farmers who bring us the food we need to live are poor and being bought out, builders who make it so we have a warm shelter to stay in are considered the dumb uneducated ones who are too stupid to do anything else.
Why do we think this way? it makes no sense! We spend millions of dollars on an old baseball card or a piece of canvas with some paint on it. I admit that it may be rare and may look nice but why should we waste so much money on that when we could feed other countries for the same amount of money?
Over the past generation our world has gone under large changes. We now don't care about the quality of an object so much just so long as we can get more of it. The idea of making a small buisiness where it's nice to work and you can help the public by giving them what they need and also by giving them a good place to work has suddenly become replaced with people wanting money and creating a large franchise. They'll never know the people who work for them or how the employees are treated, but they no longer care. It's not about others now it's about the money and their comfort!
Even our morals have changed and why shouldn't they of? afterall we've claimed religion to be nothing but fairy tales and replaced it with our much more brilliant science. What purpose do we have now? as soon as we destroyed a maker we suddenly created the fact that we have no reason for being here. there's no longer a fate after life, we no longer have to answer to any greater authority. The modern man currently believes that there's this world and that's all there is. But if we believe this then what's the point of morals? I mean why can't we kill, steal, or any of those other things? after all if this is all that there is in the world than why should it matter anymore? This is why I roll my eyes when people say they're baffled by the raise in violence in the world.
Some people have tried to fix this by creating purposes for life such as to aquire a great wealth. But why would you need great wealth? Do you like little metalic disks THAT much??? what comfort is money? sure it's handy for paying bills and it's nice to go on the occasional holiday but what's the point of getting money for the sake of getting money? it's not gonna help you at all.
others try success. These people work hard, putting everything else aside in order to become the best at one tiny thing. The only problem is that no matter how great you become there's always someone better. And even if you did become the greatest person on earth what would you gain? those who knew you would just be jealous. And after they passed on you too would soon be forgotten.
No matter which way you slice it, there's something we're doing wrong now a days. We're playing with money we don't have, scaring people with disaster's that aren't happening, so they don't notice our laws that don't work together. Yet still people walk on, they hum about how great the world's working out. They focus on the splinter that hurts another country while they don't notice the ever growing tumor in their own.
Why do we think this way? it makes no sense! We spend millions of dollars on an old baseball card or a piece of canvas with some paint on it. I admit that it may be rare and may look nice but why should we waste so much money on that when we could feed other countries for the same amount of money?
Over the past generation our world has gone under large changes. We now don't care about the quality of an object so much just so long as we can get more of it. The idea of making a small buisiness where it's nice to work and you can help the public by giving them what they need and also by giving them a good place to work has suddenly become replaced with people wanting money and creating a large franchise. They'll never know the people who work for them or how the employees are treated, but they no longer care. It's not about others now it's about the money and their comfort!
Even our morals have changed and why shouldn't they of? afterall we've claimed religion to be nothing but fairy tales and replaced it with our much more brilliant science. What purpose do we have now? as soon as we destroyed a maker we suddenly created the fact that we have no reason for being here. there's no longer a fate after life, we no longer have to answer to any greater authority. The modern man currently believes that there's this world and that's all there is. But if we believe this then what's the point of morals? I mean why can't we kill, steal, or any of those other things? after all if this is all that there is in the world than why should it matter anymore? This is why I roll my eyes when people say they're baffled by the raise in violence in the world.
Some people have tried to fix this by creating purposes for life such as to aquire a great wealth. But why would you need great wealth? Do you like little metalic disks THAT much??? what comfort is money? sure it's handy for paying bills and it's nice to go on the occasional holiday but what's the point of getting money for the sake of getting money? it's not gonna help you at all.
others try success. These people work hard, putting everything else aside in order to become the best at one tiny thing. The only problem is that no matter how great you become there's always someone better. And even if you did become the greatest person on earth what would you gain? those who knew you would just be jealous. And after they passed on you too would soon be forgotten.
No matter which way you slice it, there's something we're doing wrong now a days. We're playing with money we don't have, scaring people with disaster's that aren't happening, so they don't notice our laws that don't work together. Yet still people walk on, they hum about how great the world's working out. They focus on the splinter that hurts another country while they don't notice the ever growing tumor in their own.
posted by MD Tolman at
1:55 PM
3 Comments:
I don't agree with most of this but I will say that your writing has gotten a lot better!
1) It's *always* been about the money. It will *always* be about the money. Unfortunate? Maybe. But that's the way it is.
2) The world was much more violent in the past than it is now. The fact that much of the world was spiritual didn't stop the Crusades, the Inquisition, or any of the World Wars.
The thing is now we have the wonders of mass media. There were lots of murders, rapes, pedofiles, etc. back in the gold old days, there just wasn't Dateline NBC and Fox News to scare the crap out of us.
3) Even in a secular society, morals and rules are necessary, otherwise society cannot function. The rule of God's law does not supercede the rule of Man's law.
The difference is that God's law is driven by the fear of an afterlife in Hell that may or may not happen, depending what one believes.
Man's law is driven by a fear of punishments that will occur in one's lifetime (prison, death, etc).
If you take me for example, you can tell me not to do something because God won't like it, and I'll ignore you.
But if you tell me I'll go to prison for it, I probably won't do it.
I'm not trying to put down religion/spirituality, just saying that Man's laws are more effective in controlling most of a population, rather than a part of it.
The media tells us what we "need", what to "fear", how we should "behave". People are controlled best by fear, whether religious fear or political fear. My biggest concern with our western culture is our rampant materialism. "Things" can have more value than people. We don't think about where our cheap goods come from and how workers/farmers in other countries are treated. It is about money, for all of us! And giving food money to starving people doesn't work well either as so much aid money is siphoned off by corrupt political leaders.
None of this is new, for sure.
Bad things happen in the world (it's the way it's always been), and I think we're lucky to be around at a time where it isn't World War 1 or World War 2. However, we should never ignore the things/issues/problems that occur around the world, even at home.
Times change, generations come and go, but really, is there anything that hasn't happened yet in the world??
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