Exasperation

[fiat_knox]

What is it with people's continued obsession with money?

You can't eat it. You can't have sex with it.

But we're all told we're supposed to fucking worship it.

And all day, pissant little people with their hands out, looking for money for services and goods we can fucking well do without.

Someone told me today "This time next year you could be a millonaire." I replied, "I'd rather pursue a goal you can't buy with money."

Thing is, as long as they're blinded by money and "the cost of living," they'll not be able to see beyond this world to what else there is.

So it's all "play the game, play the game, play the game, DEAD" and nobody's any the wiser.

Comments

[lady-gaslight.livejournal.com]

It is sad that the world has become so materialistic. And I used to get annoyed with all these sales people calling me/stopping me in the street. But I took a step back and began to feel sorry for these poeple - its just a job - like the rest of us- trying to make ends meet. Thats why now I am always polite and most of them are ok with that.

I know what you mean about having things that money cant buy. I have 2 BEAUTIFUL daughters, a loving family and almost as important I know MYSELF.

Oh I agree...

[wolf-heart9.livejournal.com]

...but at the same time, we have to be concerned about cost of living and jobs because living costs money. Having a place to live costs money. Food, clothes...things we have to have to survive in the world...it costs money. Granted, no one HAS to have designer clothes...but you understand my meaning.

It's a shame.

But it's the way shit is.

[lemuria.livejournal.com]

There seem to be two main groups of people who have this obsession with money: those who grew up in poverty and are terrified of ending up back there, and those who grew up with plenty of it and had it drummed into them that not having money was some sort of personal failing, so are obsessed with hanging on to it and/or making more of it.
I have more sympathy with the first type than the second, but in both cases it masks a deep insecurity.

[renfield286.livejournal.com]

its all about false promises starts off with a bater of say three sheep to 1 cow, then someone finds a shiny rock, and convinces others that its worth the same as the sheep and easyer to transport, soon enough people are handing over little bits of paper with iou the value of this shiny rock that's essentially an iou for the sheep.

enough people believe in it, so it works.

-=R286=-
thats the way things are.

[renfield286.livejournal.com]

it makes for a good distraction from the worlds real problems though.

give that people are inherently greedy and that they have been convinced by years of brainwashing that money is worth something, unfortunatly this means that capitalism is the only real solution that works for the majority.

people are not nice kind or selfless, they are out for what they can get. so money talks.

-=R286=-

[innocent-man.livejournal.com]

The trick, I think, is to avoid defining "success" in a materialistic way, but to find a vocation (and/or an advocation) that allows you to live in the manner in which you're comfortable.

I'm successful, but it's not because of my job, well-paying though it may be. I'm successful because I sleep well at night.

ON THE SKULLS OF MIMES.