Gettin over!

If I were to exploit the single lifestyle, and manipulate people to make me money, I'd:

1 - Promote nothing but "beautiful, sexually attractive" rich people in advertisements and art, complete with subliminal or blatant sexual innuendo to psychologically steer people to always want more, and never be satisfied with what they have

2 -  Encourage people to make more frivolous purchases to keep up with what's hip, and stay in fashion.

3 - Attempt to institutionalize it, in order to get intellectuals talking about it, but in a way that avoids or downplays all thinking to the contrary, because you could potentially lose money if people adopted a different lifestyle.

4 - Continue to build expensive housing to serve this population (driving housing costs up)

From there on, the people will do the rest, and create their own hierarchies in the form of a never-ending competition. From that point on, I'd just kick back, watch people fight to get to the "top" and cha-ching cha-ching cha-ching.

Something about this sounds familiar....🤔

Modern Business is too competitive and moves too fast.

Modern business, or modernization, requires the World to be at a constant speed to "keep up" with. (AKA China is the leader of this, Russia is the leader of that, yada yada yada) YET, how does that competition benefit the well-being of the average person on the planet? Does it at all? Does scientific and military progress (to be the leader of___) benefit a population that is mostly poor Worldwide? If so, at what rate? Is the rate of progress and its rewards celebrated by those in power, equivalent to the rate of progress of a mostly poor global population?

I'll further elaborate. If one CEO were to gain a 2 Million dollar prize, would that 2 million dollars be used as well as 1.5 million dollars of it going to funding a well-planned organization that deals with community rebuilding? In what scenario would that money benefit society more? The way our economics are structured, its as if just having money to have money is more revered than actually doing something productive with it. What keeps it going IMO, this idea that we gotta keep moving and competing all the damn time.

Esoterically, the opposing school of thought goes hand in hand with the concept of Zen, which observes stillness.

In tasks that need to be done, such as the upliftment of our people, collaboration takes precedence over competition, IMO. We should always have roles established for everyone. Everyone should have a job and a role they feel good about, everyone. Nobody left behind. If we approached that topic with the same seriousness as a group of residents banding together to clean a tornado-ravaged neighborhood, we could go much further than we have already. Competitions for sport, good, but for most other reasons, invalid, especially for glory and imaginary statuses.

What was the unsung pollutant of the Martin Luther King legacy?

IMO, When all the organizations decided to have competitions on who was leading the movement.

Black America: Abridged Africa, A Bridge to Africa

Black America is an abridged Africa.

Though not on the same scale, we've had: 

- Slavery 

- Exploitation 

- Religions forced on us 

- Cities bombed from the air and destroyed

- Infectious diseases spread via. Government conspiracy

- Decades of government 

disinvestment 

- White Terrorism 

- Corrupt Police 

- Street Tribes aka Gangs being infiltrated, exploited or corrupted and turned against each other (War on Drugs, J Edgar Hoover)  

- Corrupt Leaders 

- Rampant misogyny 

- Polluted Water 

- Black on Black Violence 

- Ruthless assassinations 

- Prison slavery 

No genocides, yet. Very little starvation, but obesity is an epidemic. 

Yet we still here and more prosperous than ever, just like Africa. 

Sleazy gifts vol 1

Gift card reads: "Aye baby, I thought I'd give you a late Christmas gift. See something inspiring?" 

Human Behavior observation

Why when you lose something or think you've lost something, you look at the person next to you with a "Oh my God, I just lost something" look? 

Like they're going to help. Lol. 

Half rude

In the city, sometimes you have to make the quick decision to go in front of a lady, cause the lady behind you might run through you. 

Sheesh. No disrespect M'Lady. 

The person you constantly criticize is healing you

If you spend ample time criticizing someone, you are:

1. Gaining enjoyment by talking about them 

Or

2. Releasing your anger by talking about them 

And you always are..

3 Teaching yourself how to do better for yourself, through that criticism. 

They don't get paid for that, ya know....