Times have changed..

One step forward, two steps back.

A few hundred years ago white man owned people of color immorally. These people were exploited for their manual labor to benefit their own needs. Have times changed? Well yes, as we have moved passed color and race. From a strawman perspective, we are all equal.

But, we haven't escaped the slavery.. the american dream is slavery. For 8 hours we sign our lives away, but instead of calling us ******s we are simply called the middle class.

hahah awesome, well put

"seperate by class and keep the middle low....instill the order with boarders just for show...build them wepons let them have thier peice of mlind...then stand behin the line and watch the games begin.."

the only power they have over you......is that which you give them....

thier entire world is just as synthetic as their controle over your life... they made it all up and can take as much or as little of it as you like.....

well kept slaves..
i have said this for years...
america has the best kept slaves in all history....
a million and one distractions to earn....got to keep working to earn that...american dream....
what a joke....an amuseing/effective way to keep them all working...
brand new carrots dangled before our ever troding flesh..as so many keep on and on chaseing a dream that was never thier own.....
the true falts world finds ways to make them turn thier backs on thier own dreams...
ways to make them cast aside that which was once most presious of all to us...
ways to make you cast aside you true self ...
all so you can chasr thier falts dreams...be rewarded for fitting in...
give up your dreams...to chase the one they have packaged for you...
the dream they sold you as best.... the one that keeps you working and paying into thir system....


the american dream.....
to be fat and still while constsntly distracted from everything thats really going on,...all the while being told how amazing you are for working hard and buying those products!

eh to say that people are still slaves is kind of a stretch, at least for Americans. In modern times you can find other ways to sustain yourself then working 8 hours a day and you can walk away from society without fears of anyone hunting you down and killing you.

Society has pretty much nothing that I would ever want. ..except Porn, maybe.

The American dream? Ahaha yeah, that doesn't exist. Unless you're the CEO for some whore corporation like Walmart or a corrupt politician, forget living "the dream" & start working your ass off for money & social security, which ss doesn't even exist anymore.

"seperate by class and keep the middle low....instill the order with boarders just for show...build them wepons let them have thier peice of mlind...then stand behin the line and watch the games begin.."

the only power they have over you......is that which you give them....

thier entire world is just as synthetic as their controle over your life... they made it all up and can take as much or as little of it as you like.....

The power is in the money.. i need it to keep food in my belly and a roof over a little boys head... it sucks but these are the things i think about while working.

And of course i'm not a slave, this is the philosophy thread...


My dream, as american, is home ownership, a healthy family, and keeping my rights as a human being from the same place as everyone else... and to smoke weed.

I've tried not having a job... a few times, it always lures me back.

Hey, I'm pretty sure I agree with this whole idea of 'dropping out'...I hear many of my favorite 'philosophers' talk about it, dropping out, checking out of the game, etc...I just am not sure how to practically do it...right now I still live with my parents, which I most definitely know I want to get out of that situation as fast as possible...so the solution is to get a job as quick as possible...then I can get on my own, but that's the typical scenario...I don't understand how to actually drop out, in a practical sense.

but there are more people in slavery now then there has ever been, america is not the whole world.

The trick now is getting out of the rat race. Don't waste money, save it, buy assets that make you more money, let it grow, live off interest once the "snowball" gets big enough. That's wealth- when your money is making you MORE money while you do nothing.

all i need is a hut and a garden somewhere warm and i wont need money. But since everyone claimed all the territory like animals pissing on logs i gotta slave for it. THats some bullshit. I dont know why people would have kids when theres clearly not enough room since we have to fight over energy. Here you go be a slave.

The trick now is getting out of the rat race. Don't waste money, save it, buy assets that make you more money, let it grow, live off interest once the "snowball" gets big enough. That's wealth- when your money is making you MORE money while you do nothing.

I can see doing that with precious resources.. gold, silver, gems.. that kinda thing. Not so much with banking.

I just need to own a shelter.. thats step one.

I can see doing that with precious resources.. gold, silver, gems.. that kinda thing. Not so much with banking.

I just need to own a shelter.. thats step one.

Mines a capitalistic approach I think? Precious resources don't keep making money, they just increase in worth, right? But if you had gold that made more gold, that made more gold... See what I'm sayin?

That way, you'd never have to mine gold again.

We are playing a game don't you see? It's like monopoly with that paper money. It is only as real as the need for the shit you buy. What's the most important information gathered these days? Consumer information. It's the fuel to the economy. It makes you a cog in the machine. How do you separate yourself? Use your mind; it's up to you to set it free.

Play the game or not, but know it's a game and you'll be more equipped to appreciate the things that really matter.

Lol wtf? Youre all a bunch of middle class first worlders who feel its your right to not have to work for the things you get?!?

if you dont like it go move to the jungle and sustain yourself like we had to before civilization! See how much you miss hot water, grocery stores, and animal control

Edited by blackleaf28, 08 July 2012 - 12:41 PM.

Hey, I'm pretty sure I agree with this whole idea of 'dropping out'...I hear many of my favorite 'philosophers' talk about it, dropping out, checking out of the game, etc...I just am not sure how to practically do it...right now I still live with my parents, which I most definitely know I want to get out of that situation as fast as possible...so the solution is to get a job as quick as possible...then I can get on my own, but that's the typical scenario...I don't understand how to actually drop out, in a practical sense.

It's pretty much a global goal to "drop out" but most people just call it retirement.

OP, it's laughable to compare the middle class to a race of people forcibly removed from their homeland, shipped like sardines to a place where they were sold as cattle and indiscriminately raped, beaten and murdered....For real yo....is it that hard to put in 40 a week and feel happy when you can afford a steak and good beer?

What happened to pride...I don't give a fuck whether your building a taco or a skyscraper take some fucking pride in your work...there is no mental satisfaction like knowing you worked hard and did a good job...and don't give me some "I'm above all this minimum wage burger flipping bullshit"...of course you are, everyone is too fucking smart to live through that nonsense but you need to start somewhere. I'm a carpenter and I've worked with dudes who had their phd's and that "I'm a fucking doctor" shit got checked at the door and they were just two more swinging dicks carrying around plywood.

"It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it"