The work week started. Yes, it's Monday, children. This is the day our society believes most people should get over their desire to have time to themselves and for themselves and their families and, instead, devote it to someone else. This, our society believes, is a good thing. It is the opportunity for the individual to contribute to the collective.
Doesn't anyone else get it? The societal expectations of the U.S.A. (and most other democratic countries based on capitalism) are only slightly different from communism. While communism, ostensibly, exhorts the individual to work for the good of all, capitalism exhorts the individual to work for the good of himself. Except, of course, it's a lie. We're not working for ourselves. We're working, primarily, for the State and for the patrons of the State, big business. That's what it boils down to, in my view. While democracies are typically freer than their communistic counterparts, they are no less based on providing opiates to the masses. Lie, lie, lie so the average man or woman on the street will be obedient and believe, at the heart of the soul, that our way is the 'right' way.
It finally clicked with me. It annoys me to think I've been a pawn in this charade for so very, very long.
OK, off my very frightening assessment of life in the near-term. Here is a bit to make even the wierdest visitors think I am still a bit odd: I am only 52 years old (getting dangerously close to 53) but I am ready to retire. What do I do? I have heard lots of retirees say nice things about Hot Springs Village, AR. What do you know? Is it better or worse than "average."
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