Free Bird
Freedom is a wonderful thing, until you start regretting past decisions.
The ability to become the perfect version yourself that you’ve depicted for life is not necessarily the one you’ll end up becoming. And even if you achieve with either, you may carry some regrets. Typically for most it’ll revolve around love, relationships, doing more or doing less.
Most will have many.
The thing about freedom is, it is a double edge sword that might strike both ends suddenly or gradually. A financial collapse or war, is a sudden one for instance, I’m sure you can think of many that feels gradual.
I loved my freedom, I refused to change, I hated reality, and though I’ve experienced the downfall of my stubbornness, at the moment, I have no regrets because, although I feel late to the party, in this global climate, I (we) technically still have time to inspire and be inspired.
I like the term “everything happens for a reason”, and it does in some way, to encourage you to change & grow. I only know of “young people regrets” but I also know many from the old, many around me gladly share their stories, and it’s not always romantic. They’re lessons wrapped in love about trust, friendships, relationships, missed opportunities and so on.
And just because you’re happy with yourself now, doesn’t mean you’ll be happy forever.
You cannot predict the future and things can change anytime, and you may end up becoming like that hobo you taunt under the bridge, or become an OF ‘model’ because it’s easier. I’m not cursing or condoning such behavior for you, but we oftentimes judge others, for not being up to your expectations, blaming their predicaments on them, making fun of them, when we should be understanding the why’s of how they ended up that way and learning how to steer back as a community.
Is it the individuals fault when they’re pushed so far off the ledge they lose all sense of self worth? Perhaps in most ways sure. But do consider the sheer volume of people doing so, worldwide. Could there be another cause. Perhaps direct or indirect? Have their parents, community, state, country failed them? Is it an ideological or spiritual influence?
We’re all created equal but somehow we never act like it. I too am guilty of passing judgements. We all are. There is no such thing as a superior race, or ‘chosen people’. While it is so easy to pass blanket statements and generalize an entire race of people, especially for stereotypes, it isn’t just to do so.
People like Seth McFarlane, the South Park dudes and Sacha Cohen enjoy doing so, and while they are exercising their freedom to poke fun at anyone who ‘deserves’ it, politicians, people in the public eye or generalizing different races, they are bringing social problems to the spotlight in the name of humor.
Then you have people like Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Andrew Schulz and many more, who try to steer communities through comedy and are oftentimes met with criticisms and hate. Both forms of practices of comedy should never be restricted and should be encouraged, especially since they’re fit and capable of measuring public health and support for any given topic.
Anyone in a distorted predicament, has been failed by a distorted influence(s). Yes, it’s easy to pass blame. I’m well aware. I agree that people should be held accountable. But wouldn’t you agree that if the sheer volume of it is too large, it’s more than just an individual problem?
Especially when the range is too large (laws, ideologies, influences, etc.) Also when there’s going to be a clear winner, and a loser, that fault belongs to the leaders who determine, preset such ranges, aka playgrounds. Ranges for freedom should be controlled, and laws and justice should enforce and determine these ranges.
Some people enjoy freedom so much, they don’t change. Some people enjoy freedom so much, they will exploit others less fortunate. Some people enjoy freedom so much, they kill one another. Some enjoy freedom so much, they exploit, ruin and destroy things, even in areas outside their jurisdiction. Everything exists in ranges.
I feel that the public should be in control of these ranges. Democratically.
We hate change. I hate change. Status quo sounds like the safest option, but it’s never good long term. No change is as good as flatlining. The heart rate monitor monitors many things, none of which remain flatlined. Are we as good as dead?
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Any change nowadays will be met with plenty of resistance. There’s a reason for everything and there’s weakness in anything. Change is necessary to either bridge the gap, or put a gag order on it. Let’s just say there’s plenty of gag orders in places. In my country, there’s just a bunch of potholes. Nobody cares.
The current system could work if there was a central brain. But everything has been distributed and outsourced to the fanciest bidder with the largest shareholding in some conglomerate. Anyone except the extremely wealthy are bound for failure.
Banks and governments are too busy robbing the people instead of enriching the land. It’s ridiculous to think that banks are losing the very game they’re so proud of. It’s funny to even consider that they’re playing the game, but all they’re doing is moderating and fear mongering. Why do they even get paid so much, I wonder. To stay silent/blind?
Uno Reverse. Change
I guess that’s the problem when you outsource wealth income, tax unfairly, pocket distributions, and struggle to create new economies to sustain your very population, that is increasingly growing in debt, and you’re selling your debt to someone who has a larger debt..and it keeps going on? Hmmm…
Nobody wants to innovate anymore, everyone just wants to copy one another. Startups get mega rounds only crash. How can you guys not spot a conman I wonder, just because he has a way with words? Or is this a new way to inject cash to the ‘public’? Or get tax write offs?
The financial system is enforced on the public, but focused on specific individuals to help generate the wealth, and all it takes is for them to declare ‘bankruptcy’ after moving funds into ‘tax havens’ to ruin it for the rest of us. Some who can recoup losses get breathtaking discounts on debts and we the public get stuck with what they call ‘inflation’. Some of us lose our homes, cars, families, but the ‘elite’ are protected.
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Since you can’t change the rich, the poor, it’s time you start changing yourselves. Get more efficient, adopt a technology that could streamline, audit, and eventually manage itself, and eventually put your business/organization/nation to good use.
Whatever sectors that are underperforming, adopt them and help them manage themselves. Promote equal pay, equal compensation, build leaders, create programs to nurture them, provide pension, organize your counties and towns, it’s time as conglomerates/ government, you pocket losses to promote grassroots growth. Small and medium business will help that falling knife more effectively.
The short term goal is to centralize information collection and understand community needs. Decentralizing autonomy, and democratizing business functions and operations.
There are many dying/ dead businesses that could’ve done well if big corporations had not shut them out. But they are slowly making their way back. I am suggesting institutions invest in them for little to no return (which happens) but this time ensure you collect critical data. The business should have a website, social media, to qualify and should their product be beneficial to the community around, invest more, and help them grow, but on the condition that top fat profits (predetermined in % or amount) has to be injected back in a community elsewhere. Any business owner striking gold, will only be able to enjoy a decent chunk of it. Time for equity equality.
Sounds like communism, just rebrand it. “Community Capitalism”.
I hated capitalism, until I changed. Capitalism breeds innovation and that is one of the reasons I want you guys to win, apart from freedom. Freedom gives us the liberties to make mistakes, and keep holding our head up high, through mistakes. Whatever we’ve had so far, needs to be rebalanced and redistributed back for the community.
Moral subjectivity on the other hand…ranges.
P.S: I will come back and change some bits of this. Finishing a little late tonight, and I’m quite tired. Sorry for not putting more pics or editing this properly. TQ. I hope you understand what I’m trying to say here, please feel free to comment below. Also I’m not trying to sell fear, I’m trying to be logical for the long term.
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