This is so true and sad, but liberating when you realize it. When I wake up I often think:
This world is in reality a total slave machine that programs people to THINK that they are free in order for them to cope with being slaves, and conditions people to WANT their slavery as well.
The truth is, right from when you step into grade school, you are controlled, given rules to abide by and conform to, as you are honed and indoctrinated like a machine in preparation for servitude to the system. Your freedom is gone right there, and you are told it's for your own good.
Overall, the system tries its best to make you a "happy slave". People are programmed to WANT their slavery by being conditioned to WANT a job/career, which essentially turns them into a slave to others by giving over control of their life, time, and schedule. In doing so, they give up their freedom without knowing it. And they are taught to feel empty and incomplete without it. (Thank God I'm self-employed) They are convinced that "the purpose of life is to work" and ingrained with the "live to work" mentality.
This system then redefines your slavery as "freedom" as a spin illusion, by reversing the meaning of "slavery" and "freedom". For example, freedom in America means "the freedom to work and make money" which in other words means "the freedom to choose your form of enslavement". And being free of this enslavement is to be a "miserable unemployed person who is seeking a job", as defined by the system, which basically means that it is a bad thing to be free of slavery. It's a play on words that turns truth into its opposite. It's no different than preachers telling Christians who have submitted to the fundamentalist laws of the Bible that they have been "set free from sin" or fascist dictators telling their populace that they've been "set free from chaos and disorder", etc. So in this case, when you turn into a corporate slave, you are "set free from unemployment".
Essentially, the system's false logic is that slavery = being "set free" from freedom. This is nonsensical of course, but you aren't meant to see it the way it really is. Instead you are meant to see the inverse of the way it really is. That's the scam and brainwashing.
People are also conditioned to want to marry too, even though it really makes no sense and is merely an artificial contract that unnaturally binds two people. If you think about it, marriage is like swearing an oath to only eat vanilla ice cream for the rest of your life until you die, and never trying any other flavor. It is an unrealistic promise and unnecessary voluntary binding of oneself. (Not a wise idea at all) But people are conditioned to WANT it and to feel empty and incomplete without it, so they do, even though it makes no sense. (Love isn't enough, so we must invoke an artificial business contract in order to feel complete!) And of course, they are taught to see marriage as "being set free from the lonely single life".
But in reality, if you love someone, that is all the reason you need to be with them. Romantic love can be a wonderful, beautiful and natural thing that bonds and connects people, especially if it's coupled with synergy. There is no need to swear an oath or create a binding artificial business contract to try to control our nature and life. Doing so enslaves people into an artificial bind. But you are indoctrinated with the belief that this oath and contract is a necessary and natural thing.
So, the two big areas of life - employment and marriage - are in reality forms of binding enslavement in which you give up your life and freedom over to others. But you are made to WANT and NEED them. You are made to WANT a job that ties you to one geographic location and puts your schedule under control of a managerial entity, which no sane awakened person would want. And you are also made to WANT to unnaturally tie yourself to another person for life until you die, never loving any other, regardless of what may happen, even though such a promise is totally unrealistic.
An awakened person realizes the folly of all this, sees that what everyone wants (like the will of a hive mind) makes no sense, and realizes that all of this is the total antithesis of what it means to be free. But an unawakened person believes the illusion and wants what they are programmed to want. To them, if society says so and everyone else is doing it, it must be good, normal and natural. Only the awakened person realizes it's all a con full of lies, mind control, illusion, voluntary slavery and the giving up of one's life and freedom.
True freedom means that you can do whatever you want (for the most part at least) as long as you don't harm others, without the control and interference of others. But the commitment of employment and marriage take that away. There is no doubt about that. But we are NOT conditioned to want true freedom. We are conditioned to WANT the enslavement of employment and the binding exclusive lifetime commitment of marriage. Thus we are conditioned to WANT to give up control of our life, time and daily schedule to others. Yet we are TOLD that we have freedom in America and that "freedom is what makes America great" when in reality we do NOT have freedom. It's a total lie that makes no sense and contradicts reality.
Think about it. Most Americans who are enslaved by employment and bound by marriage do NOT have true freedom because for the most part, since they CANNOT do whatever they want everyday without control and interference from others. Their life is controlled by their bosses, managers and spouses. Yet they BELIEVE that they have freedom. Why?! Because they are TOLD that they do! They are told that since no one named Adolf Hitler runs their government, that they can go to the voting booth, and that they have 20 flavors of bagels to choose from, etc. that they have freedom, even though their lives are controlled by others and they cannot do whatever they want everyday! It's an insane hypocrisy and bizarro world. Yet most don't see it cause the system programs their minds not to see it but to see the opposite by redefining everything and turning people into "happy slaves" who do not want true freedom.
Now if you agree with all this and want to know what you can do about it, my advice is this: Try to become self-employed. Or at least find ways to cut your expenses so that you can work part-time and at least have half the day to be truly free. This may sound hard, but if you remember that "Where there's a will, there's a way" you can find a way. Or you can join one of those self-sustaining eco-villages around the world, if you're in that kind of thing. If you can't do any of these things, at least be employed in something that you love, so that it does not feel like slavery. Seek love if you want it. And if you find it, let that love itself keep you together if possible. There is no need for swearing an oath or creating binding lifetime contracts to keep you together against nature's will. Try to explain this to your partner if he/she is marriage-minded, and try to "deprogram" him/her as well. If they still don't agree, then only you can decide what's best for you. But for God's sake, don't call lie and call slavery "freedom" and freedom "slavery".
But if you don't agree with any of this, then good luck to you. I hope I've given you something to consider.
Always remember, as Frederich Neitzche said, "no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself".
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