What do you do when you earn well but have no obligations? when the stupid job that makes no sense to you makes you rich. You resort to derive satisfaction from ostensible extravagance in the company of friends, strangers and relatives. Never bargain or ask for the price of anything on the shelves of a lavish store even as you secretly suspect of being overcharged.You let go of your rightful water at the food court choosing to buy a coke, instead of claiming the water you're obligated to be served. We are the highly educated ignorant bastards from the finest institutions who clog the corporate asylums to fill our hollow lives with meaningless wealth. We swivel without direction in our vulgar quest for excessive material wealth. In the process we invariably forget our responsibilities towards our family, society, nation and humanity at large. The tradition of learning without questioning has crippled our ability to boldly question the illegitimate practices of the many immoral business houses that have proliferated the neighborhood. Thoughtless bidding on limited natural resources like living space in cities, water, food and cereals have inflated their costs to such heights where they're out of reach to the large masses that truly value these resources. It's not just others lives that we mess, our profligate tendencies and complacence over our accomplishments haunt our relationships too; something that we never understand even after being through a dozen of them. Friendships, to us is the limited human experience of sharing cocktails, jokes and birthday bums; and the occasional accomplice in abusing the mutually disagreeable in drunken confessions. They never mature beyond being a mere companion at mischief.
The end, an overly simple life without fulfilling friendship, soulful love or meaningful objective filled with useless materials that ensure our distraction from the true pleasures of life. We are piling up more and more of materials in a mad race for their possession, competing and comparing ourselves with peers and fellows for social dominance and admiration.Confused as we are, our priorities are skewed. We refuse to spend even a fraction of the time we spend at work with the people that love us. We appreciate music we don't understand, embrace styles that discomfort us and work to impress them who don't give a damn for us. Unfortunately, none of us realize what we miss until it's too late. Sadly, our irresponsible lifestyles affect the economically under privileged who are unequally challenged by our consumer exploits. Course correction is long over due and utmost for us to reclaim our lost pleasures and peace of mind. With all the wealth creating capacity that education has endowed on us, if we recommit ourselves to humanity and social welfare, not only will our society improve, also will our lives become much more rich, purposeful and satisfying. We are the corporate generation, a generation that is a product of a confused education system. Yet we are the hopefuls for a combative comprehensive change; and change we shall bring.
The end, an overly simple life without fulfilling friendship, soulful love or meaningful objective filled with useless materials that ensure our distraction from the true pleasures of life. We are piling up more and more of materials in a mad race for their possession, competing and comparing ourselves with peers and fellows for social dominance and admiration.Confused as we are, our priorities are skewed. We refuse to spend even a fraction of the time we spend at work with the people that love us. We appreciate music we don't understand, embrace styles that discomfort us and work to impress them who don't give a damn for us. Unfortunately, none of us realize what we miss until it's too late. Sadly, our irresponsible lifestyles affect the economically under privileged who are unequally challenged by our consumer exploits. Course correction is long over due and utmost for us to reclaim our lost pleasures and peace of mind. With all the wealth creating capacity that education has endowed on us, if we recommit ourselves to humanity and social welfare, not only will our society improve, also will our lives become much more rich, purposeful and satisfying. We are the corporate generation, a generation that is a product of a confused education system. Yet we are the hopefuls for a combative comprehensive change; and change we shall bring.
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We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear.- Tyler Durden
Economically under privileged? Natural selection da. We cannot help it.
"self-improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction is the answer" Durden, again.
We can macha, if for once we wish.
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