WAHOOOOOO!!!

If that title didn't get your attention, well, probably nothing will. In recent time, I have started to question myself as a functional human in society. Why do you ask? Well, that gets a bit complex. But, the short of it is, being functional in society isn't necessarily a good thing. Okay, I know, where is this all going, right? Look, it is obvious now more than ever that we are being totally duped. Which, you know, is sort of to be expected. We are human after all. We are not perfect. And it is these imperfections that get preyed upon. By whom? Everyone in charge. That is who. This is not new. This is just a much grander scale than it has ever been. You know how America is supposed to be the land of the free? How can you be free with that much debt and feeling of always owing somebody? It pretty much diminishes a person's self worth in a very effective manner. Hell, people have spent generations paying off debt only to die with more of it than they ever started with. So, we are living in a time where our materialistic possessions are worth more than our family. We as Americans are worth less than people in Bangladesh. Not on a human scale. Simply on a dollar and numbers scale. They have absolutely nothing. But. They have no debt. Which is not what can be said about the majority of Americans today.

To understand where I am going, I will need to go back....far back..

I was angry. Extremely angry. It was one of the early steps of enlightenment. Depression came later. I would ride my motorcycle as fast as I could on gravel roads with no care to live if something went wrong. Most of these trips ended at the city dump where I would crawl into some structure up high and gaze out over the collection of garbage amassed in front of me. Often times, I would listen to Rage Against The Machine while doing so. Usually, this song would be "No Shelter".

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NEoesmnYU4&feature=kp

The imagery that would liven inside of me was flawless. It was clear, that the masses had been duped into needing these things and a structure set in place to conveniently  deliver them, only to end up here. Even while they still had a useful life. Because of marketing. Someone convinced everyone in a rather devious and well thought out way that what they had was not good enough, that only more and new things would serve them well, no matter how well their old things still functioned. Now with the computer age, this only happens at a much faster rate.

Look at this waste, all of it, and who profits? The system is rigged and ultimately the elite profit. "They fix the need, develop the taste, buy the products or get laid to waste...."

 "The main attraction - distraction got ya number than number than numb Empty ya pockets son; they got you thinkin that What ya need is what they sellin Make you think that buyin is rebellin...."


And you know what? Yeah, you already guessed it. Everything I just said is nothing new, nothing profound. The only thing it was, was profound to me. And in such a way that affected my life drastically.

Fast forward 10 years and the problems I saw, the anger I had, has been successfully subdued. How? How did I go from this point of enlightenment to this current stage of blunder? First, I am only human. Second, I followed my heart. That being said, I have retraced my earlier steps and have just successfully regained my point of enlightenment beyond depression. Thank goodness. This is such a battle. The higher you climb... well... you get the idea.  Anyways, my heart lead me to school to get a degree, to accumulate student debt.. yada yada yada.. The only takeaway though, is that today I did something I felt very strongly about. I don't believe in my company's 401k at all. I think it is a hoax. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH. That being said, I just cashed it out after a bunch of rigamarole to pay off my student debt. I don't regret it at all. In fact, I am stoked. I simply don't believe that those numbers will mean anything later. But having my debt paid in full means a hell of a lot to me right now. I would rather be a zero than a negative.