12-25-2012, 10:07 AM
(12-25-2012, 04:08 AM)Parsons Wrote: What positive goals should we be striving for, zenmaster? I hear you criticize a lot of positive ideas, no matter how fanciful they may feel (some not so fanciful). Should we just want to sit back and let stuff that is in our control (to some degree) just happen and continue to get worse? How long are we going to sit back and let the elite play with our lives and the financial system via slavery through consumerism (over 70% of our economy is based on consumerism)? Do you thing this world has to be this negative for it to be normal for you? Are all the positive changes meant to happen after you're long dead and buried of old age?
If you haven't noticed, the OP calls for waiting for a future time where change would be allowed. Yet more of the incipient change on the horizon meme. No thought provided for solutions. No thought of yours provided solutions. Continue bitching about your lack of freedom, framing separation, shoulds and should nots. Keep asking yourself those questions, and maybe someday you will bother to answer them for yourself. The only 'slavery' is due to lack of responsibility. This is how it 'should be' so that you may eventually learn to take it. It's actually a gracious allowance of which you may one day be thankful.