One of my favorite comedians Tweeted this today. It isn't meant to be a scientific statement. Nevertheless, it made me stop in my tracks and ponder it.
82% of Americans are addicted to grievances.
I can't speak to the number but when I watch the news (which I know has a negative slant always) I can't help but muse that it sounds about right.
Like saying my job is so hard and wanting sympathy for the hard work I do.
Or...
I have it so hard....No, people in the past had it much harder than you. Meaning they had to work more for what they wanted. You wanted food, you have no choice but to grow it. You want to be warm, you had to go out, cut down a tree, chop the wood, and then build it into a fire. That fire also served the purpose of cooking the food.
A lot of people do not realize how easy humans have it today. So much in fact some people can afford to be lazy.
But the industrialization of society into urban life created consequences such as people not being able to acquire land to do these things. Even in sports, it was getting harder to find land to play on and this was needed as a form of leisure for the intense working conditions of the factory jobs. Or else there would've been riots and grievances.
This is a big reason I talk about comforts of life.
While I do enjoy these comforts, I also know they can easily be taken and I will be forced to work harder for the things I want.
But that's how it is right in Capitalist Society, you work hard hours for the money, and that money is based on what exactly? The necessity of the job or the education that you spend many years studying for the degree that gives you more money for being put in debt?
Or, you could just live off the Grid and just work more to survive.
Actually, some people are content with having little of these comforts where they do not take them for granted when given opportunities.
I notice a lot of Americans take this for granted and do not see they have it better than a lot of other people do. Even us Native people are doing better. Humanity in general is acting with more unity than before.
But, as with all things, you have separate ideals and beliefs butting heads, where one way declares itself the one true way all of humanity must abide and live the lifestyle of. Which does not and will never happen until all of humanity sees that we are all the same, only we do things in our own ways, which in turn each of these ways helps the world to continue to spin.
Grievances have occurred for quite a while now, especially during the Industrial Revolution. And I see that happening again as we move further into the newer reality of the Technological Revolution. Which includes the Technology of medicine and vaccines.
The consequences of this will be seen further down the road of future generations, like we are witnessing the consequences of the industrial revolution with the climate, the toxification of the soil and land, and the effects those industrialized products are having on the world itself, all so us humans can enjoy these comforts of these products.
Topic: Things I find a tad exasperating v.3 (Read 115388 times)
