Rethinking Society

Freedom.  Whatever that means.  But it’s been beat into my head that we have it.  Freedom hints at the notion of “anything”.  Wow…Anything!?  I can be/do/go anything I want, as long as I’m not hurting anybody, and it’s cool.  Sounds awesome?

Every time I get to know somebody, I find that they are a lover of substance.  Whether they are a drunk, a pill popper or a hard core street junkie, they NEED it.  They really don’t know why.  Nobody knows why, but we need a crutch.  Maybe we need to rethink our social structure.  Maybe “anything” isn’t so awesome.

Capitalism!  Democracy!  Freedom!  Let’s revisit “anything”.  I’m brought up to believe that I’ll be rich/famous/beautiful/awesome/INSERT WORD HERE/ and I’m eating it up.  But wait!  I get my first job, and realize that I’m but a pawn in a huge SCHEME.  Yes, a SCHEME.  It apears that my hardwork goes to furnish a SWEET LIFE for a very small percentage of the population.  Bizzare?  Yeah, that’s not fair.  I was the one that developed that flagship product, and you gave me a $0.23 raise, while making yourself millions.  But you didn’t forget about your FLUNKIES.  You found it in your heart to give them $250,000.  The “taker of the progress report” is a HIGH paid position.  I like how you have a special lunch in my team’s honor.  You assure us that WE MADE THE COMPANY WHAT IT IS!  I wonder how our names were omitted from the publications.  Oh wait, there it is.  Is that a footnote?  Well, at least it’s there.

Let me give you %100.  Take your %20 cut of the profits.  I’ll take my <1% cut of the profits.  I question you about the fairness, you retalliate “YOU ARE LUCKY TO HAVE A JOB!”.  Wow, I feel greedy.  Why do I ask for so much.  I’m lucky, I’m fortunate, that’s what you tell me.  In the back of my mind, I KNOW that I can go anywhere else and they’ll pay me what I’m worth.  I must have forgotten about capitalism.  Did I forget that I was but a pawn in far “greater” scheme.  I’m not worth a percentage, but rather the “competetive salary”.  Translating to “We don’t pay much, but if we word it like this, you’ll think we do”.

So, let’s go to our jobs, work our best, and make a grand future for the “haves” of society.  For without us, they’d be one of us.