We each make individual choices in our lives irrelevant of the system in which we live. Is there any honor when the motive is profit at any cost? In my mind, theresalequeen.com personifies the individual choices we make and their impact upon the world. A worker bee within a massive multi-national oil company is somewhat removed from their actions and the company's impact on the world, for better or worse. In a case such as theresalequeen, however, her motivation is strictly profit, at any cost, even if she has to lie to do it.
Don't get me wrong, I do find her site interesting and markets of all kinds interest me. Stock markets,
real estate markets, even the tickle me elmo market. I cannot condemn her for doing what she does. Who am I to judge? It is very interesting to observe and comment on, however.
But her motives are motivated simply by greed which produces a positive feed back loop, furthering scarcity and greed.
I see a distribution. Both extremes. Individuals such as theresalequeen on one end of the distribution and non-profits and organizations such as the UN on the other end. I believe both extremes are non-beneficial to society as a whole. The mindset that the resale queens of the world hold, is a profit at any cost as long as the 'price is right'. And the UN tries to determine how individuals and sovereign nations should implement change from a central dogmatic view, even if it is with an idealistic and altruistic perspective.
Maybe the resale queen, is just an indicator of how absurd a human's perception of 'need' can get? And isn't human desire an entertaining thing? Especially if there is a profit to be made...
Nov 28, 2006
Nov 21, 2006
system zen
Here's a great perspective...
"Not having enough food to put on the table has never been an issue for me. And yet if I listen to that conditioning, my needs could have the same desperate quality. Depending on who I am and what I'm doing, that voice that tells me there's not enough and that there's something wrong could get pretty desperate because, let's say, everybody else is driving a BMW and I'm not. So it's really pretty important to sort out what's a legitimate need and what's not.
And what about people who really are hungry or homeless?
I spend a great deal of my time with people who don't have food to put on the table, who starve every day. And yet in my experience -- and I think that they would say the same thing -- that fact doesn't have anything to do with the amount of gratitude that they feel. They are grateful for all of the things that life is, for the sunshine, for the trees, for the people in their lives and for the hope of a better life for their children.
I think it's a mistake to say that focusing on what we don't have is a way to get what we want. In fact, the opposite is true. Focusing on not having is the fastest way to not have it."
And what about people who really are hungry or homeless?
I spend a great deal of my time with people who don't have food to put on the table, who starve every day. And yet in my experience -- and I think that they would say the same thing -- that fact doesn't have anything to do with the amount of gratitude that they feel. They are grateful for all of the things that life is, for the sunshine, for the trees, for the people in their lives and for the hope of a better life for their children.
I think it's a mistake to say that focusing on what we don't have is a way to get what we want. In fact, the opposite is true. Focusing on not having is the fastest way to not have it."
Nov 11, 2006
it's anti-system, Baby!
So I am visiting my sister and enjoying her newborn baby. So amazing. To see and experience. I have kind of written my ideas of being a Dad off, but it's great to experience a new born baby. This baby is amazing. But the thing that hit me is, they are essentially anti-system. A baby today does what a baby did five to ten thousand years ago. They don't care about what you are driving or what you do for a living. They give us that chance to experience 'just being'. That the nice and great part (right now she is putting her arms up in the air! So cute!) They just bring a room of adults together, just like a dog...beings that are just in the moment...(oh God Cute...)
Funny, she just left the room and the energy level dropped. Now we are joking again and have returned to pre (post?...who knows)baby levels...
Anyway, these little creatures are anti-system, but the system plugged into us craving and wanting them. ON some level, it is a very human desire to want a baby. But in order to raise a baby you have to be plugged in for stability.
That said, I wouldn't want to raise my child as a system drone without thinking. I want to raise an anti-system baby that questions it's own values, identity and morals. I want it to question life and what it wants to get out of it. This is the conundrum. In order to have a child you must to a certain extent be system. In order to raise a questioning and thinking human being you have to be anti-system....
Funny, she just left the room and the energy level dropped. Now we are joking again and have returned to pre (post?...who knows)baby levels...
Anyway, these little creatures are anti-system, but the system plugged into us craving and wanting them. ON some level, it is a very human desire to want a baby. But in order to raise a baby you have to be plugged in for stability.
That said, I wouldn't want to raise my child as a system drone without thinking. I want to raise an anti-system baby that questions it's own values, identity and morals. I want it to question life and what it wants to get out of it. This is the conundrum. In order to have a child you must to a certain extent be system. In order to raise a questioning and thinking human being you have to be anti-system....
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