Something I was just considering is the damned rat race in which we all find ourselves in. Mostly, it be our jobs, on other cases it is the societal pressure to constitute a family. Be “successful” in life (according to materialistic and consumerist standards), have this, buy that, achieve such and such…
And still, if we come to look at it, at the very structures from which we are held, if you look under it, everything stinks. Quite literally I mean. Corruption worldwide, the uprisings we are seeing again and again due to stupid administrations. Some kind of truce seems to have been observed at Davos, but not from it was needed the most.
The major grifts of technology are close to being called a hoax (albeit already being called a slop), and the ones in power just refuse to look better into it, because of course all they are capable of looking is their own deep pockets.
And all at the expense of what? Of our collective will… Everything’s being pushed to an extreme these days. Ram prices, the public opinion, non-sense, memes, whatever more you wanna put in the basket. And then in the end, there’s the rat race which we find ourselves in.
There, you see it, those who are still fortunate enough to hold somewhat steady jobs, day-in, day-out, contribution to their own lives with paychecks, to be able to afford the serevitude which we find ourselves in. The race seems to follow, always expecting more of us, always seething for the “better enterprise” of our carreers.
Truth be told, in the end, what carreers? Of that which was to be accomplished of us that we have provided value to the company we’ve been part of, what portion of that was brought to us? What portion of it did benefit our lives? Of course, there’s always the bills to be paid, medical insurance, survival matters to be taken care of.
But besides those modern survivalist points, what I am confronting here is then: what portion of our work dignifies us? Or what most part of it just flat out entrenches us in illnesses and stalemates with our own guilty counsiousness?
Because, in the end, if you will, even if you win the rat race, you are still a rat.
How to avoid then, being bludgeoned into the mere existence of a rat? That begs the question… From within the same system that makes us keep chasing the hamster wheel? I doubt that.
Alas, let us all, in the end don’t be the rats.