@markx15,
markx15;37027 wrote:Thank you for your advice Pino, I realise that I will change more than I can imagine in the years to come, but the problem is the world isn't changing. Well it is, but the prospects aren't very good. People fight for money, they kill each other and those around them for pieces of paper. That to me, even at my early age, is unacceptable. I have a choice as to what I will participate in, and what I will not, I will not be caught in this cycle. I don't enjoy being bombarded by propaganda everywhere I go, people telling me what I should want, what it is that I need, it is ridiculous, and superficial. I see what you mean by the statement that I am just now entering my radical years, but I see it as a necessity, it is almost a tradition, the advances we have had as a civilization came about through radicalism, revolution. As the expression goes, you don't change a winning team.
I think more young people need to have an attitude like yours.
My advice:
Realize this fact, and keep it in the front of your mind at all times: Money is a piece of paper, a number in your bank account. It is way for powerful people to control you, but it only works if you "buy in to it". Minimize your debt at all times, debt is how they control you, debt is how they force you to work towards expanding their empire. They have structured the society so that you cannot escape debt. It is become almost impossible to live your life without having to borrow from them. And what are they giving you? Some numbers that they add to your account. Numbers that they can add to themselves infinitely, that are based on NOTHING tangible. and every month, you MUST WORK to earn more numbers that they will slowly take back. Yet you don't just work until you've earned the same number that they gave you, you also MUST WORK to earn the interest that they charge you for allowing you to have these numbers that they made up.
Our entire society has been indoctrinated to believe that these numbers (money) and possessions are what is most important. Our obsession of enlarging the number in our bank accounts (They call this how much you are "worth" :no:) has driven us as a society to abandon what is truly important. Family, friends, respect for other people, generosity, kindness, empathy, sympathy, selfless hard work. And instead of setting our focus on those things that truly matter and improve peoples lives. We have been duped through our own selfishness into slavery by the world bankers.
I hate to think it, but mankind is a selfish, corrupt, dispicable creature. I would like to believe otherwise, but I look around at my fellow humans, and even at myself, and I see a global infection of greed and a thirst for power. Don't let yourself be a part of the system, don't allow your greed to enslave you, don't allow money and posessions to be your primary goal. Find what is truly important, what makes you feel truly fulfilled, and seek that.