Is it normal i feel there's gotta be more to life?

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What do we do with kids now? What do we do with our home lives? We put them in front of the tv and we let the tv look after them. Then, send them off to the education system where they get trained to be little people. They go out to the world. They get caught in the credit trap. They end up locked into that and that's their life and they sit back and pretend to enjoy it.

You're having a great time. You got your beer, your chips, got your remote control, your team's winning, and you don't even notice that you're being chained to a wall of debt and that's life and we carry that debt around with us for the rest of our lives. We get our information from the tv. They really feed us what we want to know. We get programmed by religion or programmed into division. We divide. Everything about this is designed to divide and it's the sum of our life. We work hard to get the house and all this stuff and we think that's living the dream. Agree or disagree? Thoughts? Opinions?

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  • Boojum
    5 years ago

    I disagree about the purpose of schools. In fact, the historic role of schools is to train kids to be obedient little cogs in the economic machine. Apart from that, what you say is true.

    Back in the old days, people were focused on mere survival and too tired after spending a day sweating in the field or factory or over a hot stove or washtub to have much time to think about such big issues, so most just swallowed a pre-packaged version of the meaning of life every Sunday. These days, most of us have the luxury of more freedom to think about such things, but the majority still follow the herd because that's easiest. Thinking is hard, thinking outside the box is even more difficult, and actually stepping outside the box is virtually impossible for many because of social pressures.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      5 years ago

      About the purpose of schools, I really don't like the idea of training kids to be little people in this economic system. It's unfortunate because as human beings there's so much more potential there.

      Consider this perspective. If you can think back when you were a child, I think you will remember a time when you just felt like you were capable of anything. Where you felt like you had the whole power of the universe inside you, but then these feelings are squashed because you're put into the education system. You deal with peer pressure and there's pressure to do what everyone else is doing.

      We shouldn't be training our kids how to be robots because what we are doing is killing creativity when we should be creating it.

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      • Boojum
        5 years ago

        I agree with your points about creativity. Given how automation and technology is advancing, the last thing the world needs is more flesh and blood robots.

        What schools should be doing is looking at ways to maximise the potential of kids to use their innate human qualities that artificial intelligence systems have huge problems replicating. Unfortunately, the inertia of government and education systems means that they're always behind the curve, so the main focus is still on kids memorising and regurgitating facts on demand. That skill is easy to test, but it's never been a reflection of true, real-world intelligence, and it has even less use these days than it ever has.

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
    5 years ago

    thats an awful bleak & cynical assessment

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      5 years ago

      It's the bitter truth.

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      • IrishPotato
        5 years ago

        Only if you're poor.

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  • BlindSpot
    5 years ago

    The Rat Race. Those who truly live, are the ones who escape.

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  • JD777
    5 years ago

    You can choose not to get caught up in all this you dislike, many people do. If this turns out to be a good thing others will eventually follow suit. But be prepared for a slow evolution to this kind of free thinking. People tend to go with the direction they’re programmed/trained to follow.

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  • brutus
    5 years ago

    The education system is bullshit. Personally i think that kids belong in factories to get trained for hard labor in the future. Otherwise they become lazy and ignorant jackasses.

    We need jobs to buy stuff and pay our bills.
    Religion is bullshit.

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