Sometimes it seems designed to keep those of us who were born into a lower class, kept in our respective class. It's not a matter of hard work and dedication, it's all a matter of who you know, and how well you can suck up.

One of my business classes, the instructor tells us of one of his "rules of wisdom", which is Suck up Sincerely. And if you can't do it sincerely, fake it.

What happened to honor and dignity? What happened to proving your capabilities through effort and sweat and being recognized for those abilities? What happened to the American Dream? It's turned into a commercialized, techno-color, vision. Buy the house, the plasma TV, the BMW or Lexus. The ideals of honor have been replaced with a drive to fit in, to compare yourself with the purchases of your neighbor. So sad that we have fallen to such a level of complacency. Working hard only to maintain the level of purchasing power needed to keep our level of status in a world that seems controlled by the programs on prime time TV.

Shut your TVs off. Look around and see how detrimental these programs are, how much they steal from you with their filtered numbness over your life. Wake from this sleep, and see your life. The dreams you've lost. The ideals you've set aside, the beliefs you used to hold. It's so much easier to let your mind drift in the sea of the screen, to let go and forget who you are. To forget that you used to dream; when you were free.

Category: My Life