Interesting thought, I bet you think kids with ideals are too simple sometimes naive, I understand that money is power, when you enter the workforce, you just try relentlessly to climb the social hierarchy. As peasants, you will always lose this game, there will always be someone who are younger, faster and stronger who can take your place. My doctrine is you can't lose if you don't play. I always let people around me know that, I get a certain respect for this, my parents take it very hard though. I just don't want to be part of this mass propagnda, mass education, mass media system where they brain-wash you into oblivion. Capitalism is like catching machine hares in a maze, when you succeed, there is more to catch. Very tiring.
Actually it is the intolerance and bigotry from the industrial people that I come to hate, their assertiveness think their way is the best and only way. I am actually in search of this egalitarian paradise, and found it is only prevalent in hunter-gatherer society. Industrial society with it's social caste system is actually democracy branded as feudalism. Our civilization is moving way to fast, it is growing wide in vastness rather than testing the length of time. We are sprinting our way into a brick wall, rather than slowly maneuvering our human vessel.
This bring us to the new question: To conform or not to conform.
I don't think kids with ideals are naive at all. I admire them. But I am not one of them and I don't want to be one of them. This is just not what I'm looking for in life. I prefer a "balance". Work+Life balance. I need work, because it provides my basic needs, if not more. I want to persue my interest in some way. So I'd choose a job that I'm interested in, to a certain degree. And on the side I do what I'm interested in, for example, card making. I'm happy.
I don't believe in going extreme is good, in either direction. Too much work for $ that's slave and no life. Too much lay back and no work that's also boring and to me. And it's just meaningless (to the society as a whole).
OK，我有個朋友喺呢邊１０年前已經好鍾意研究健康食品，有機嘢食等等，咁畢業返咗香港就開始做呢類食品嘅代理。你問佢對自己嘅事業滿唔滿意，當然係由自己興趣出發先有靈感去做呢門生意。但係你問佢呢個生意是否個人興趣，就一定唔係囉！你要day to day做１０萬樣瑣碎嘢，其實去到生意果part已經係同健康食品冇咩關係，佢賣屎塔都係要追數，發單，check shipment，出糧... 講到尾，出嚟搵食好難講興趣點都要面對人（難頂嘅客／伙記），要對人就一定複雜。興趣對我嚟講係鍾意幾時做就幾時做，唔使同人交代。
發表於 2012-9-26 23:17
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