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Detach

Today I found myself shredding what once was such an important document but now has no purpose, value or meaning

It reminded me of the times back in college where for a semester I would hold on to my Syllabus’ like they were gold only to later toss them in the recycling bin never to be worried about again

Gahhhh…. this life

What a bittersweet experience
To work for it all only to let it go

The Buddha says the attachment to desire is the root of our suffering

Attachment. Keyword.

We think we own something, but really it’s all borrowed. Borrowed land. Borrowed body. Borrowed time.

I don’t even know if “borrowed” is the right word to use though. Because that implies there is a lender. Who is the lender? What is the lender?

I don’t know. I don’t want to get too deep in philosophy today.
I just wanted to complain a little.

Complain about all this effort just to let it all go. Which begs me to think about what actually truly matters? I don’t want to waste the opportunity chasing nonsense I’m just going to be shredding. Building castles that I’m just going to leave behind.

This idea of leaving behind is interesting though. Legacy. What do I want to leave behind? Perhaps a little land. A little land where good things have happened to continue to usher in a brighter, kinder world where more humans do good for goodness sake.

I’d like to think, if we are going to exist – might as well make it epic. Make it enjoyable. Make it worthwhile. Don’t you think?


Capitalism

Something isn’t right here with our systems.
Anybody else feel this?

The Earth provides every resource we need

We, the humans, use our intelligence to manipulate materials into goods for our use

We cut the tree, turn it to wood
We take the wood and turn it into houses, chairs, tables, paper

We, the humans, invent our systems… we co-create our reality. We’re just making it up. We make the rules, the laws, the systems.

Let’s chat on the money system…

We’ve invented the money system to aid in the trade of goods and services
But the way we are currently operating feels to me less than optimal

It’s NOT optimal that we capitalize on our basic needs, because then so much of our energy is wasted when it could be better allocated for improving operations, well-being, enjoyment, pleasure and an overall better life experience across the board.

Because of the current operating system so much of our time is spent working to make money to pay for goods that would otherwise not be necessary to continue to pay for, but we do because of capitalism.

I’d like to speak specifically on HOUSING for the sake of illustrating this point.

After you have built your home/shelter, the thing is built. It’s DONE. It need not be bothered unless some repair is needed. Outside of repairs and upgrades being made over the many years, for the most part the home is DONE. There is no need to keep “PAYING” for it, AKA exerting ENERGY, AKA make MONEY to keep PAYING for a thing that is already DONE. But whyyyy do we do it? CAPITALISM.

And beyond that, we have governmental forces wanting to TAX (aka make money) on LAND, whereas LAND is intrinsically free of monetary value. Land is a natural space that has no actual intrinsic monetary cost. It is humans that are putting a monetary cost to an otherwise costless thing. Why? Because of the current system at hand.

There are many people who benefit from the way things are who would have no incentive to make any changes. There are many who have studied and understood the “game” and are playing the “game” and thus perpetuating the system as is. Even if a new person becomes wealthy from capitalism and now is blessed with riches, opportunities, ease and comfort, that person will still not thrive as optimally as possible because the world in which we are co-creating isn’t an optimal world.

Ok, I kind of went off the rails with that last point there as it’s quite a high level perspective.

The point I am making isn’t that capitalism is bad or good. The point I’m making is that there is something off about how we are currently operating and I believe it could be better.

I believe we could have much better systems that waste less of our personal energy. Systems where we don’t have to waste time to make money just to pay for certain resources that could simply be a given. Instead our energy could be better allocated and put towards doing epic things that make us more intelligent, help us have more fun, joy, pleasure and have an AMAZING TIME on this beautiful Earth.

The point is we could be LAUGHING more, loving more, we could be healthier, happier, and more at ease in our bodies. We could be seeing the world. We could actually make it to MARS in our lifetime. We could feed EVERYONE. We could probably even figure out something mind blowing like creating a TIME MACHINE!!

But no. We are POORLY allocating our time to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for wood we found of the Earth in nature for free just because it turned into a house.

Like come the fuck on. I KNOW we can make a better system than this.





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