The Price of Progress: Late stage capitalism

[babushka]

"Every morning millions of people move in perfect synchronisation...no words, no emotions, just motion...Everyone knows where to go, but no one knows why"

This video hit really hard. The silence on the train, everyone waring black and white. I also look at morning commutes/traffic and think of blood getting pumped around a body, but the cities are dead, it's not even a machine. Static, immobile glass and concrete. The only joy found in vices with people to tired to care, thankful for the release and happy to claim a ticket to an early grave.

Is this the future for everyone, slaved to the corporate machine, uncaring overlords, cartels and syndicates? Don't mistake me I'm not pro communism or socialism or anything like that, whenever capitalism comes under criticism there is always that whataboutsim of this or that other system is bad, it does nothing to fix the issues. Everyone is afraid of change, nobody wants to lose the little they have. Fat pigs at the top doesn't care, they don't even understand money. It's incompressible to them that we don't eat cake instead of bread.

[Kenzo1]

I see the real issues being not just capitalism but everything . Because our management ( all of them ) are clueless and

profoundly intellectually bankrupted , and they just keep pedaling this stuff all because they dont have any real plan / plans .


We are sort of adrift , because our management are litle soul dickheads with no clue to any real true important vision whatsoever that would lead us to upwards.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

"Is this the future for everyone, slaved to the corporate machine..."

For many yes but not everyone. I despise any big city. Visit sure but to live, hell No!

I lived in Japan for a few years circa 1990. About a 45 minute train ride south of Tokyo and it was like this as shown in the video. NYC is the same but much more aggressive, loud and faster pace. Those born, bred, work in big cities don't know any different and simply conform to that way of life.

Progress without wisdom is like giving a toddler a chainsaw. Sure, they'll get something done, but it won't be pretty and someone's losing a limb. We're sitting in a world where kids can't read cursive, can't make eye contact, and think hard work is remembering a Wi-Fi password. But we've got software that can imitate Shakespeare.

[F2d5thCav]

Working for "the system", I think most people reach of point of asking,

"Is this all there is ?"

[babushka]

Working for "the system", I think most people reach of point of asking,

"Is this all there is ?"

funny you should say that, I was just listening to a random Rabbi 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gWQGi_cdO4

you mentioned that you you were looking into this because people are stressed for lack of a better word about being the souls in bodies

why do people get stressed about this?

well I think the better question is why why wouldn't someone get stressed about it like

it's not normal for a soul to be in a body it's it's it's a weird condition but the reality is most people aren't stressed by it most people don't even think about it and you know they have their life and they go through life and everything's fine

they get involved in behaviors or in Enterprises that where they just completely immerse themselves Beyond any healthy point where it's really clearly just just self- numbing and a lot of these people are what Society deems to be successful so that it's very much reinforced um you're being cheered on for essentially indulging your addiction

get to a quiet place and to just examine like who am I what am I
how uncomfortable am I without any of these trappings without the brand the name the the business the the bank account

the identity that I built around me like who am I when I know my soul
who is my soul and what did this Soul come to this world to accomplish

first of all you're okay um the fact that you're here in this body in this lifetime under these conditions was not meant to torture you a loving and all- knowing God put you exactly where you are needed and life may never be comfortable I think that's one of the lies that we try to sell

it's like life can be comfortable some for some of us no life will never be comfortable but it can be profoundly meaningful and the way to find that meaning is so simple 

do not go searching the meaning of your life is not on the other side of the world

open your eyes look at who you are now and the gifts that you've been given

and the resources and the opportunities that you have in your life now

and ask yourself how to best use that for the good of others

how to maximize using that to benefit people other than yourself

that's your meaning

[Michigan Swamp Buck]

With life centered around survival and the perpetuation of the species, selfishness is an essential aspect of living. We kill and destroy on a daily basis to continue our personal existence, which is a product of millions of our ancestors doing the same for their entire lives. 

All we do is make things easier and faster for the same purpose, for the death and destruction necessary to survive and procreate more of our kind. Capitalism is based on this instinct of selfish survival. The more you have, will ensure that your progeny will live and be stronger and healthier than other competing humans.

[babushka]

With life centered around survival and the perpetuation of the species, selfishness is an essential aspect of living. We kill and destroy on a daily basis to continue our personal existence, which is a product of millions of our ancestors doing the same for their entire lives. 

All we do is make things easier and faster for the same purpose, for the death and destruction necessary to survive and procreate more of our kind. Capitalism is based on this instinct of selfish survival. The more you have, will ensure that your progeny will live and be stronger and healthier than other competing humans.

A hive or rather ant colony, Polygyny, Oligogyny very interesting. Something about wasps

https://antwiki.org/wiki/Polygyny

Chapter 15. The specialized predators
Chapter 16. The army ants
Chapter 17. The fungus growers
Chapter 18. The harvesters
Chapter 19. The weaver ants

Sounds like us

Polygyny is the possession of multiple queens. Oligogyny is a special case of polygyny, in which two to several queens coexist in the same nest but remain well apart from one another (Hölldobler, 1962; Buschinger, 1974a). As a rule, oligogyny in ants is characterized by tolerance of workers toward supernumerary queens combined with intolerance among the queens, so that the queens space out in the same nest (Hölldobler and Carlin, 1985).

The number of queens profoundly alters several of the key features of colonial organization, including the kinship of the nestmates, the rate of colony growth, and the number and distribution of nests. The past ten years have witnessed an explosive growth of knowledge about this complex subject

Who is in charge: queens or workers?

The picture that has emerged in contemporary studies is the existence of a moderate amount of struggle within ant colonies. Queens and workers appear to be in general conflict over the management of the ratio of investment in new queens and males. In some species, under appropriate conditions, queens battle queens for principal reproductive rights. Workers compete with their nestmates for the same privileges in the absence of the queen and, in a few cases, even when the queen is present.