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	*2012: Why Us, Lord?* by Chris Malcheski (Why not you? -- Les Brown) Every person may know one other person whose life doesn't center around socializing. I'm not saying this is wrong; ultimately everything in life comes down to the personal value we place on it and socializing is no different. It's just a fact that most people live to socialize, and anything else they do is secondary and in support of that - usually done begrudgingly. If we look back on the last month, year, five years; what have we brought into the world that wasn't there before? A few can say "plenty." Most can't say anything. America has become a country of management, not production. We consume far more than we produce. Our lives begin and end in the socializing arena, leaving nothing tangible behind us. Most college degrees are in the business field, usually management. Everybody looks to be the boss on their job, the pillar of their social group, etc. We live out our lives striving to be called "the leader" of whatever groups we associate ourselves with - and that declaration doesn't have to be official. As long as it's understood that we're the most important, the most qualified, the one who has it together the most, the one who's most savvy, the most special and the most unique, we're good. Whether we're the actual boss of a group or not, our real goal - emotionally, not intellectually - is to be seen by all others as the model representative for that group: the one who got it right, who knew what it was all about. Strictly emotionally, that's the highest height most of us aim for and we do it constantly. Most of what we do all day is senseless chatter. It comes from nowhere and it goes nowhere. It's purely circular motion. We dance. Day in and day out we dance and we're extremely skilled at doing it. We manage people's money, time, relationships and lives. We don't initiate movement, we restrict it through endless supervision and control. As with every culture in history, when a society comes close enough to absolute non-productivity, one hundred percent ritual management, supervision and control, it falls. When you buy a house, you're not buying value. You're paying for control. Last year American banks made twenty three billion dollars in fees, for which no value or service was provided. It was simply legal extortion. It's the corporate form of taxation without representation: "we're taking your money because you can't stop us." You can't talk on a telephone without signing a contract two to four years into the future, binding you to continue paying for a service you no longer want or need. All of America now runs on contracts, for everything from cable TV to cell phones, because contracts allow these companies to continue being paid for products or services well beyond the lifespan of their value. When this becomes the central support system for a society's economy (as it has in ours), it's the chief warning sign that the society in question is about to crumble. (Incidentally, when you choose a life without credit, you become unreachable by the fee-based corporate world. I recently closed an account at Bank of America because it was the only way to stop Verizon from billing me for Fios internet service that I never used or received after one month because the service was down more than up; they claimed I signed a contract I never signed and would not stop billing my account. After closing the B of A account they were billing, Verizon continued billing; B of A simply reopened the account and in the space of eight weeks has now racked up more than three hundred dollars in supposed fees on a closed bank account. Being credit-free, I simply laugh and throw away the notices as fast as they come in. Their criminal activity has no effect. I have total immunity.) No country is oppressed by their government. None. The government of any nation, with all its attendant actions and policies, is an effect, not a cause. Enough people in the society being governed would be a seamless fit into that government if they had the chance. They are already in the same mindset; they simply lack the vehicle to manifest it. When this is the case, a government perseveres. What is corruption but using one's social or political standing to take from others what we will not return comparable value for (commonly called "stealing")? We spend every waking moment of our lives ensuring we'll be admired by others, but we can't give any admiration to others. We strive to dictate parameters and standards for everybody else but we can't tolerate others dictating parameters and standards to us. We want everybody to make us feel good about ourselves but we can't make anybody else feel good about who they are - we go to great lengths to do exactly the opposite, make others feel less, dumber, less experienced, less competent, all to solidify our superiority. My guess, probably not far off, is that women in the United States consume, via wine, two to three times as much alcohol per week as men take in from beer; their marijuana use is at least as high as men's. Effectively, our global society has become (going on) seven billion black holes all trying to take more than they give. The most popular excuse for setting a destructive standard is "the greater good," where the individual is relegated to insignificance and taking care of one's self has become a crime. Conveniently, what better way to empower the ruling elite? Everything has to be for the greater good. Imagine a baseball team playing by these rules. "Why weren't you covering first base?" "Are you kidding? That would be selfish! I was saving the second baseman! I was being selfless and putting the team ahead of my own petty needs at first base!" Which leaves a big hole at first base because nobody is playing that position and twenty pitches into the game, the team has already lost any hope of winning. All because the individual links were taught to despise themselves, all for the greater good of the chain as a whole. Insane? Yep. That's us. Since Nikola Tesla (for example) cared far more about his own selfish passions than the greater good, he left us with alternating current, fluorescent and neon lighting, radio, the coil that lets your car run, and a few zillion other patents on which most of modern life is based, or at least evolved from. As with ancient Rome and all other cultures, reaching this point of near-pure corruption as a way of life is the death knell for any society. It ceases to function as an arena for personal growth. It becomes useless to the universe, and like a dead battery, it's swept away so a new battery can take its place. It isn't about the dead battery. The outgoing (us) is already dead. It's not the center of the game anymore. Toss it; one trash can is as good as the next, it's about the new battery, full of life, full of energy, full of potential, which is actually going to do some useful work beyond entertaining itself. (As a side note, every physical activity you engage in, from running to your gym attendence, qualifies as self entertainment and has no impact on society. You go, you don't go, who is affected but you?) The only way to serve the greater good is to be as self-centered as possible with respect to what's inside you - not with respect to your standing among your peers. Paint. Invent. Grow food. Write. Produce something people can use; something we would not have had without you (and that doesn't mean your kids; having kids is exactly as difficult, exactly as worthy of worship, as having sex; even insects have lives that consist of "reproduce, take take take, die, repeat" - but that's become our most respected model! You have children? WOW! It means you did somebody or spread your legs for somebody; it's a little difficult to isolate exactly what is so impressive about that). The software I create is in no danger of saving the world. Nor does it need to save the world. It saves me: I'm doing what I love and need to do. For each person who uses it, some small idea will be triggered, or some small commitment of their own will be sparked, or even reinforced to the point of taking action on it. They turn around and do something they have a passion for. And it ripples through society from one person to the next. Everything begins to work perfectly when we stop fixing what isn't broken, take our skills and passions at face value, start honoring them and exercising them, and start taking life seriously. Nobody tasked us with saving the world and every time we assume responsibility for any individual beyond ourselves, we look like two-year-olds putting on mom's clothes and taking that seriously. Helping others is never a bad thing - but what's driving that? What do you expect in return? Are you bargaining your way into heaven? Is your real intent to indebt that person to you? Or is it a relatively pure drive to simply help them, who cares what's in it for you, it's just what you need to do; get it done and move on. As a society, we have crossed the point of no return. We have become useless to the Universe as a collective identity. There's nothing left for the individual to do but separate from that group identity and become individuals again. Those who don't, those who feel compelled to go down with the sinking ship, will be toast. Those who do separate will move on to the next chapter, for whatever that may be.