The Apprentice wrote:
Not a rant but right, all of the answers here within one thread, every skill we gain as individuals frees a slave somewhere else, a slave being forced by a set of ideals on behalf of someone else.
I will say this again like a stuck record, Every step we take upon childerick is already rearing.its ugly head, every penny we think we save is now starting to cost us dearly in profit upon our sinew and sanity.
There are those who will say, its easy for you to say because your skilled, but it wasn't easy getting here.
Wake up, take the red pill.
Ready or not its coming.
If you are keen to learn a certain skill, but say to yourself " I couldn,t do that, I wouldn,t be able ". Then you are already building walls within you that will prevent you from reaching your goal of attaining that skill.It may be hard, but its not impossible. And with the internet its now easier to acquire knowledge on a certain skillset, than it ever was before, once you have the motivation , you cant fail.
I am self taught in every skill I have , never attended a technological college, for restricted access to any skill. I perfected my craft because I had motivation to do so, purely because I had a passion for working with wood. But I also learned a lot of other skills, because I had a necessity to do so.
And I believe that is whats coming down the road, the need to be as self sustainable as possible, will limit the impact of whats a head to somne degree.
As the saying goes ...........aim small, miss small. Dont aim for the stars at the outset, and you wont be disappointed.
Yes, you're both right; and when the truth is laid out as simply as you've both put it here, it become so obvious.
To be honest, I've only discovered how helpless I am around the things and ways in my life because, until not so long back, I earned the MONEY to just pay to have it done. That felt okay, just fine. I had to money to buy a car and to have it fixed by a "specialist" when it went wrong. And to replace it when it couldn't be fixed. The same goes for washing machines, irons, plumbing - even down to the hot water tap of the other day. In the end, we become convinced that all these things can't be fixed by anyone other than an "expert" and it feels almost frightening to be doing it ourselves.
Yet, one or two generations ago, our grandparents and great grandparents simply HAD to know how to fix and maintain everything in their lives, down to and including their health and their children's health.
Perhaps that's why, today, the pursuit and ownership of MONEY feels so vital to us - because without it we are adrift and unable? And it has also led to this Throwaway Society we inhabit without a second thought.
My dear old Trainer used to drum it into my head that, "There's no such thing as The Shortcut or The Easy Way; The Shortcut and The Easy Way carry the heaviest penalties of all". It's only now I'm seeing how this applies to everything in life, not just breaking or competing a young horse!
Funnily enough, just from my little Tap Incident, I found a huge deal of satisfaction and, believe it or not, freedom!
I'm almost willing another tap to go wrong, so I can fix it again.
There's a real pleasure to owning our own lives. I really don't want to go back to being able to just pay to have it done.
