Okay here. I think that human beings have overlooked the potential effects that our domestication of each other is having on us. We have to answer to too many demands- demands that ONLY exist because of our  dependence on money/human productivity. However, I don’t believe that humans were meant to work as much as they do- 2/52 weeks to themselves d during those weeks only 2/7 days to themselves and their families, and out of those days ~7 hours to themseves and their families. Mental illness is on the rise and I think that having forced ourselves into domestication is the main contributing factor to this sense of dissatisfaction- I mean, 70% of people (in the US, at least) aren’t satisfied with their work- which is too big a number to overlook, but I don’t necessarily think that it’s only the TYPE of job that is the cause for dissatisfaction; I think it’s the having of a job itself; the sacrifice of one person’s time to another’s authority which ultimately decides whether you’re worthy of your pay (which one needs to survive). This is wrong; no person should be allowed to determine whether other people are allowed to survive; no one person should be considered above anybody else because at the end of the day, we’re all going to die and then decay; nobody looks at the skeleton of a former king and says “wow his bones are SOOOOO regal!” No; everyone’s bones are the same; everyone uses the bathroom and picks up after their dog. We are all the SAME and yet we allow accumulation of money- something that was never present in our nature to begin with- to distinguish ourselves over others. Which gives regular people feelings of inadequacy because  we’re never gonna be able to accumulate as much money as the super rich- who’ve achieved their goals thru the manipulation of numbers/peoples’ time while there are people who can barely afford to feed their families despite being on welfare and working multiple jobs. This is another potential contributing factor to the rise in mental illness- a sense of hopelessness; a sense of wonder as to where their next meal will come from- but hard work IS the answer (despite how hard they’re working already and how little time they get to spend with their families)- while rich warmongers, and resource thieves can spend barely any time working because their jobs require very little if any energy at all- we’re busy doing all their grunt work. They get to retire early and live comfortable lives while everyone else works their asses off and has to decide how “responsible” they want to be with their money- as though that was something that EVERYONE collectively agreed upon. But no, the majority of people HAVE to worry about the potential of going hungry because of a system that is drivin by greed; we HAVE to worry about allocating family/friend time because if we get too consumed in our jobs, we just end up tired and not wanting to do anything with anybody, and we have to deal with mental health disorders that I believe are caused by excess stress, minimal autonomy over one’s body, and lack of personal time/time spent in nature all of which are integral to the advancement of American capitalism because our society relies on the subversion/suppression of human nature in order to survive- which is mentally unhealthy.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by Ramsey.

Can you give me any recommendations?  I feel like I had lost my ”juice” once I graduated. I didn’t have a plan throughout college because I didn’t know what to study, so I settled for history. Now, I don’t have ANY relevant experience to put on my resume and I’ve been stuck at home for the past 7 months; but I don’t want to get a job that I’m gonna have to settle for like I did with my major; and I CERTAINLY don’t want a job that’s gonna bore the crap outta me. But nobody will hire me, I’m injured so i can’t exercise, I’m getting fat again, I don’t get out and see things, I didn’t make friends in college, I still have yet to even KISS a woman, and I’m supposed to just think “Hey, it’s normal for entry level jobs to require 2 years of experience, and you’ll find a woman, Ramsey; don’t worry; just keep looking up and things will eventually look up with you!”, but I’ve been staring too long at the sky; my head’s in the clouds and I’ve been blinded by the sun, so I’ve lost sight of myself, my purpose, and everything that’s made me me over the course of my life thus far and the last thing I wanna do is confine myself to a lifetime of working as someone else’s “employee” so I can maintain the rest of this oh-so-wonderful life that I didn’t ask for but am REQUIRED to be happy and grateful for, regardless of whether I had any say in the matter. Do I want to keep thinking like this, no… but I’ve never been one to think positively about myself so I don’t know how to not think so pessimistically.

Dear Anita,

I’m sorry if I gave off that impression. I just got tired of talking/thinking in circles and decided to open up a little bit.  I just don’t wanna wait until I’m 65 or older to stop working  because that’s not fair.  This whole “retirement age“ thing is bull, and having people  work their entire lives away for a society that was not part of nature’s plan is inhumane in my opinion. Animal rights organizations may be a little on the crazy side, but they’re 134% right when they talk about the effects of domestication on non-human animals; and as I’ve said before, I think that domestic life has the same effect on humans, but I’m going back into that circular cycle.

Regardless of whether or not I can find a job I lime, at its very core, employment is slavery,  because like I’ve said before, we only have contextual freedom-  and in this context, it’s freedom on someone else’s terms; freedom to spend money… but that’s it. And for some odd reason, being required to do everything that a person is required to do with in our society, is considered freedom and I just don’t see how that’s true-  especially if you look at what happens to people who don’t have jobs and how they’re treated/regarded by people who do have jobs and money. Sure there are people out there who work to help those people, but the general populace does not give a sh*t about anybody who suffering at the hands of the system; and that’s partially because we believe that everyone’s fate is within their own hands; and while that may have some truth to it, it’s not entirely true…  The way I see it, every institution is bought, and is thus pursuaded to brainwash us into thinking the way that most of us do; that spending more time working a job than taking care of yourself/your family is a noble way to live. But I don’t see working a job as part of life, but rather as theft of life; regardless of how you wanna soften that. I get that all the things that work takes us away from- our families, our homes, our pets, eating, showering, etc., is all considered work, and that there’s no avoiding work and that we’d still have to do those things if work magically disappeared, but working a job by which we can make money just adds more work to our lives; and a lot of people end up neglecting themselves, their families so that they can “at least be alive,” but what’s the point of being alive if ALL you have to focus on is working/falling into trouble if you can’t get your stuff done? In addition to all my loneliness, and my inability to exercise, I don’t want to add something that’s gonna bring on an entirely new realm of stress, even if I like doing it. But… recently, I’ve been writing a lot- essays, letters, but mostly lyrics (to which I’ve received lots of good feedback) so we’ll see how far that gets me.

-RA