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REALITY Impossible to quantify, but interesting to contemplate.
The Original Sin
Somewhere in our history, we decided that people couldn't be trusted with too much freedom, too much happiness, too much autonomy. We genuinely believed, and still believe, that people who get things too easily, experience too much happiness, too much freedom will become lazy, despicable human beings.
Consequently, our institutions and society have maintained that putting a large amount of rules and drudgery into our lives is the best way to combat the inevitable decay of society if we were to ever get things too easily.
Our schools are the jumping off point for this philosophy. Instead of gift wrapping the basic knowledge that would allow people to essentially glide through life, we make the school experience into an endurance test in the name of "helping our children ready themselves for the drudgery of adult life."
We never even consider the idea of spoon feeding them the essential information because we believe it will erode their character and leave them woefully unprepared to deal with life. We have this notion that people who "shortcut" the process are immoral, missing out and aren't doing it properly.
The reality of life is that a person who takes care of their health to the point where they are not burdening the healthcare system and also takes care of the their financial situation where they require no handout is meeting the basic requirements of society assuming they aren't doing it in an unlawful or unethical manner.
There is no requirement of a certain amount of suffering or education to meet these very basic, easily achieved obligations. Yet, there is an implied requirement because we have an unnatural fear that being able to meet these obligations too easily will ruin the fabric of society by making everyone a selfish hedonist.
We have so little faith in our fellow man that we don't believe we can simply teach people good behavior without the need to make it a dreadful experience. We don't believe we can lay out a simple choice for our society that eliminates the need to insert drudgery into many elements of life in the name of building backbone.
The choice is simply if you are committed to taking care of yourself, where you are not a financial or health burden on society, we can have a really good time. And, the best part, we are ready and willing to aid you in the process. We will not introduce drudgery, throw up roadblocks or create busy work just to see if you can handle suffering.
Our only goal is to make you a productive and happy member of society.
The skeptics believe that once a person enters the workplace, without the capacity to handle large amounts of drudgery, they will ultimately fail.
In our current system, where the average person has limited skills, a poor work ethic and horrible interpersonal skills this is true.
We need a society that teaches every person several income making skills, a good work ethic and how to deal with people. These seem like lofty goals but only because they are currently accompanied by a lot of unnecessary drudgery that makes everything seem like a lot of work and makes people feel lazy because they don't want to embrace the drudgery that currently goes along with getting these basic skills accomplished.
Most people don't mind work. What wears them down is office politics, dealing with their co-workers and stupid rules. No one from the company president to the janitor prefers it this way. They just feel, without these things, work wouldn't get done.
All we have to do is prove that we can be decent, productive human beings without drudgery and everything changes.
Self imposed drudgery is the original sin.
https://issuu.com/healthwise/docs/school_book_2020_a
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