why we are not free

The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.

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No the question is why humans have fetishized money to such a degree that nothing else matters.  It's a system that grinds human beings into nothing and that rewards the inhuman impulses we do have.  Our economy (at least the US) is funded by people buying worthless shit they don't need or really even want.  You could live quite well in a small house with no TV, no radio, and so on.  You've been taught to need a cellphone-computer so you can watch more TV (and thus more ads) and taught to need an iPad and a laptop.  We've been taught to love "fashion" the --weirder the better -- so that we throw away perfectly good clothing every year. It's not a natural lifestyle.  And Communist VS Capitalist is not the issue.  The issue is the rule of money.  That "system" is the elephant in the room. 

Most things that we want to do are monitized.  Wanna go for a swim -- pay $10 for a ticket to the pool.  Wanna fish?  pay up.