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My personal perspective: There's a lot to be said about humanities value models of life. You aren't here to acquire wealth, build a career, or do anything that
by hsbaut76 8y ago
My personal perspective:
There's a lot to be said about humanities value models of life. You aren't here to acquire wealth, build a career, or do anything that society may call normal and successful.
Yet, most of us blindly chase this dangling carrot, often the price is a life we forgot to live truly for ourselves.
Being youthful means to be free from the shackles of normality that society uses to tie us down. Youth often sees the dilemma, they see the mess our false models have created for the planet and they begin to initiate their own internal struggles between their dreams and the human system. They go seek help from health professionals but the issues are systemic to society itself, not the individual.
By the time they are mid 30, most will be married, have a child, have a mortgage and a decent car, along side a job or career, but probably ended up suppressing their dreams and their truth to achieve all that. Now they have dependants and debt and there's not a huge amount of space for change that they are yerning for.
They wanted to live abroad, learn foreign languages, busk as a musician in the streets and perform in jazz bars, but now they simply go to work full time, and maybe once a week and on the weekends work on a little side project to keep their creative juices flowing.
We are a civilization that has given into fear and would rather choose the guise of the security and materialistic rhetoric over the liberation of knowing that life is delicate, precious and could be gone tomorrow, so you may as well live it completely in truth, rather than in someone else's narrative.
- seatdrummer 8y agoHumans have always had to stay home/work in order to take care of kids. In my opinion every person is born with instinct to be useful and fullfil some purpose beyond hedonism.
- hsbaut76 8y agoIs it hedonistic to be happy, to live a truly joyful life that you decided and not someone else? I'm rather questioning the value system we have. It's better to be true to yourself than to invest in a false value system. What defines a _useful_ purpose? If you mean protecting what is worth protecting, such as our children, animals, biodiversity, planet then I would agree. If it means researching and learning things about science, the universe or making art, I would also agree. If it means owning items for the sake of it, if it means getting a promotion at the expense of who you truly are or want to be. If it means manufacturing more useless technology just for the sake of making money. If it means keeping up with the Joneses, focusing on increasing wealth. Then I would strongly disagree. But this is just my personal value system, everyone else has their own, and each individual should be honestly and intentfully listening to themselves rather than trusting what society values. Because frankly, the world is completely fucked. We have destroyed the natural world and our environment because people want fast cars, 3 iPads, a new mobile phone every year, a zucchini wrapped in plastic, a business short business flight to London every 2 weeks and the American Dream.