Why oh why did we set it up the way we did?
1. Most men are polygamous by nature, it is said, but polygamy is outlawed in most of our country.
2. Few find passion in their work, would rather have more time for themselves, but the established workweek consumes the better part of 5/7th of each week.
3. Humans have the capacity to think conceptually, but its two essential tools... thinking objectively and reasoning logically...are not taught in any elementary, middle or high schools I know of.
4. The unique ability of humans to make choices is subverted by society's relentless pressure on its members to conform to prescribed protocols and standards.
5. Freedom is extolled, but adults are not free to use hard drugs, and, in some states, to pay for sex, or to engage in certain types of gambling...and when our freedom is threatened, we protect it by violating it in the most insidious way: requiring young men and women, via the military draft, to risk their lives against their will.
6. Almost every major city has extensive rush hour traffic, wasting time and causing stress, when it could all be alleviated by some companies slightly varying their 9 to 5 workday.
7. Almost all humans seek meaning and purpose in their lives, but from early childhood they are told they will not find them in the real world, the only world they will ever know, but must look for them in an imagined fantasy world they cannot know.
8. We are told that money is the root of all evil, and spend most of our lives trying to figure out how to acquire more and more of it.
9. We talk readily about the tragedies of life, but hesitate to talk about one of the pleasures of life...sex...and treat it publicly as if it were something we had little interest in.
10. If we do what we must do to healthily stay alive...think of ourselves, seek pleasure for ourselves, love ourselves, we are labeled selfish, debauched, narcissistic, all used derogatorily...but if we do the same things for and toward others, we are compassionate, benevolent, magnanimous...all words of praise.
?way this it designed Who.
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