Social Construct
From day to day, our lives are constantly bombarded with a cocktail, bubbling of sophisticated stress. Trapped, we are, in our very social construct. We find, from time to time ourselves wondering, what is the purpose in all this?
We wake up. We have breakfast. We brush our teeth's and get ready for work. We go to work and we work hard. We come home from work and spend small time with our families and eat dinner, before we get ready for bed again. That is the majority of lives in society; and of course, it's simply an advanced version of cave-men survival. Instead of hunting, we work and provide that way. This can be a man or a women; but that is how you provide now.
We're so deeply entrenched, entranced and manipulated by the booming social construct, by the dancing media that we forget that all we are is a spec of dust in this cosmic reality. If you were to zoom out, to continue to do so and take a picture of where we are, in this universe; in this galaxy, all you would see is a small spec of dust. That is where we are, that is all we are.
The Art of Society has us beautifully trapped within its structural matrix and down below are the seven areas of society that are programmed into us.
1. Go to school
You are told by your parents, by everyone around you; to go to school, get good grades.
2. Learn to drive
You are programmed to learn how to access a transport system which can propel you towards the area of work in the future
3. Get a university degree
You are conditioned, even by the universities themselves, debt after debt, to get a college/university degree and that is the only way you will be successful
4. Get a job
And then, as you've done the first three stepping stones to society; you must proceed into a collection of stressful working hours, with people you don't like, to afford items you don't need, to impress people who don't like you
5. Get married
In which, traditionalism invokes itself into your mind, to promise the special relationship that Dogma, Religion and Disney all proposed to you in a fashionable way. Slavery... Cough... Marriage.
In which of course, you're all conditioned to have failures of relationships, because of the television shows you watch and the low self esteem and communication models you access.
6. Have children
Genetics over-rule you, along with the social expectation of "When are you going to have children?" ; "Oh, you don't want children? I'm sure you will" ; "Still, no children? Selfish". And you proceed, to have children, resenting it, yet loving it at the same time. The combination of complete expectancy, biological determinism and copping out of a fulfilling life, because of what "they" had told you.
7. Get a promotion
Of course, if you didn't have children in the first place, the promotion would be more fulfilling because you'd actually get to keep the money. Yet, the way it is, you need a promotion to pay the debt off - or pay for more Gucci bags or Rolex watches for your partner or even, that new holiday for your family.
Welcome to the world of Stress. You're conditioned and trapped in this never ending cycle of madness; yet when you look around at all the people who also follow this - they're unhappy, they have hopeless friendships/relationships, they're in debt and are their children really that special and good?
Of course, more and more these days, people are choosing to have a simplified life; a child-free life; with different life style choices and that's also okay. This article isn't supposed to demonise the people who have been tricked and fooled into the life style of society, because there are some people who chose that and want that and the-most part enjoy it. For the people who feel under pressure to do everything, in the methodical way it is handed to them, know there is another way.
But for now, enjoy the social construct . . . Well, try to.
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