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ava on Nostr: " Our indoctrination as units of production starts early in childhood and has ...

" Our indoctrination as units of production starts early in childhood and has continued every day since. For most of human history, children were allowed to be children living carefree and happy lives-but not anymore. When I was a kid, we were allowed to be children for the first six years of our lives, and then the brainwashing started, but for many of us, even those days are gone. Instead, parents pack their preschoolers every moment of every day with activities designed to give children a head-start on their "productive" lives.

Once we enter school at five years old, we fall under the spell and tyranny of the clock. Many of us became trained to stare at it, waiting with bated breath for break, lunch, and, best of all, going-home time. Then we get home and have to negotiate with mom or dad about homework, chores, and projects, hoping we'll get time to watch TV, be on the computer, or play a video game. For the next twelve years at least, our formative years are used to mold our little brains into being worker bees, drones in the hive that work hard and fast.

Produce or Be Punished Is the American Way

Eventually, we enter the workforce, and our transformation from a human being into a production tool gets serious. We work, or we don't eat. If we aren't productive enough, we're demoted or denied promotion-maybe we are fired.

Ultimately, the clock dominates our minds, and we stop seeing ourselves as people. We are simply units of production. Our worth and our merit are determined by our slavish devotion to the almighty clock. No wonder you hear so many stories of people who retire, and a few years later, they've died. They have no value or importance to themselves or anyone else without being productive. They lose their reason to live.

That's not how humans were born to live. It's totally abnormal and unnatural to every one of us. It's no wonder modern civilization is plagued by depression, addiction, obesity, suicide, and stress-caused disease. We're people being forced to live like ants or machines."

— Bob Wells (Wisdom From the Road: A 25-Year Journey of Reflection)

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