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Are we quite ok to be the oil in the machinery?

We are asking if there is living in freedom 

It has been asked from the days of extreme slavery to the days of apartheid we have asked this question. 

Why do we not ask this question so much now. Is it because we are distracted by social media and all that? 

We obviously live enslaved, we live under authority, we spent our days in anxiety, it goes on. We have accepted this way of living rather than push against the contracts, we sign them. 

We rather enjoy living under the promise of success, achieving this and that. Standing out as more successful than the other. Arriving in an expensive car, medical aid, pension plan. If we don’t have these things some of us we think something is missing, we cry ourselves to sleep. Majority of people live without these things, yet minority of people allow these things to force them into slavery. Nothing is wrong with having good things absolutely not, when you afford it. 

There is something to be done about the environment that we are bringing children into, an environment that leads to anxiety from school to job to pension. There’s tons of content much of which is pushing the narrative of success within the working world where we make some money for ourselves but majority for an elite few and the government. 

Success they say, be determined they say, focus, discipline, why does anyone want you to have these qualities? These qualities are important for the labor market, you as a worker must be motivated. Be motivated like a farmer who feeds his cattle so one day he can butcher it. So motivation is key to the people who will produce great results in the job market. 

Be motivated, positive thinking, that’s your diet for your farmer needs your productivity. The world needs your productivity, your effort. It is this effort that keeps the economy going. We are the high grade oil / battery that keeps the machine running. The marketing of it so good that we sell it to each other, frown when someone is not part of it, are they depressed, are they lazy? Are they a monk? Have they converted to a belief? What’s their belief? Freedom? Right!

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