An introspective look into the state of ‘World Culture’ today.

As a human in my early 20s, venturing out into the world as my frontal cortex develops, I cannot help but mourn the loss of what I used to believe was freedom. The freedom of financial responsibility goes hand-in-hand with the inefficient and downright unethical work culture we have enslaved ourselves in.

Make money to generate money to chase money to have money to spend money.

To surrender yourself to true happiness, you must first surrender everything you’ve been groomed into wanting. A stable house, a stable job, a stable income. You will thus be equipped with all the tools necessary for an unfulfilled and unhappy life.

Of course, I am not discounting those of us who relish the mundane, or those less fortunate than us, whose daily life consists of a constant state of fight-or-flight, where survival is paramount, where even the simplest of pleasures may appear as paradise.

I believe we should study the latter example. Why is it that to achieve a fulfilled life, we have to succumb to the ingrained lie that more is better, and to waste our days generating income is more worthwhile than truly living?

At their simplest, humans are animals. In the same way that an ant or a water buffalo spends their ’24 hours in a day’, we humans resolve ourselves to sit behind a desk for, sometimes, more than 8 hours a day. Blue collar, white collar and all in between are under a spell of disillusionment.