Ok, so the world economy is based on growth, and in the wealthy west we have long ago reached the level of growth by increasing our standard of living and moved on to creating demand for consumption where there previously was none. That means, we are being taught to think we need all this shit, all the new kitchen appliances, new shoes, new computers, new phones, everything, when in fact we do not need all that. And the excess just keeps on getting wilder and wilder.
Case in point: testicular implants for pets. Yes, you read it right, fake balls for dogs and cats. You don’t believe that something like that exists? Well, check this out: http://www.neuticles.com/ .
Now does anyone anywhere think we have not reached some sort of higher pinnacle of meaninglessness? That perhaps we are not all idiots of a grand scale? That we – the human race – still evolves into something better? I don’t. I think this was my final straw.
Fake balls. For dogs. Seriously.
As of today, I am self-employed again. I’ve been working elsewhere for just over three years, while trying to keep my own business on the side, and now was the time to make the jump to a full time entrepreneur.
I have mixed feelings (as usual). I’ve been through this before, leaving a company where I was not just extra payload, and I always feel bad leaving. This time almost more so than before, as I consider the big honcho in the company where I worked to be a real friend of mine. But, in the end it was only one part of a longer journey. My heart was not in it, so I had to bail out before I became a burden.
As for what I’m doing, well, same old same-o. I have my software, a couple of them actually, and I’m now trying to improve them a bit and find someone to sell them. They’ve been selling so-so, mainly because I haven’t had time to work the sales properly, but that will change. I’ve got about half a years worth of money in the bank so I don’t have much time to fiddle about, but I’m confident it’ll be enough.
Here’s hoping for a better future!
Nature, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. Or how else would you explain the beauty in these pictures, taken just two months after what is turning out be the worst ever natural disaster by oil: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/oil_in_the_gulf_two_months_lat.html - 37 pictures of the gulf of mexico / BP oil spill. Some of those pics are amazingly beautiful, yet knowing what they depict makes my heart ache.
In case you haven’t noticed, there was – and still is to an extent – an economic downtorn almost all around the world. Everybody was broke, nobody had any money, companies went bankrupt, people lost their homes. In general, it was not nice.
But wait a minute! How is that actually possible. Isn’t the amount of money practically static – the money hasn’t gone anywhere. So, how is there suddenly less of it?
Hmmm… Something’s fishy, and I’m not just talking about fish-soup here. Seems to me that the so called “stability” of our economical system is built on a mirage. Like when everything’s ok, there really isn’t any more money but let’s all together just act like there is and hope it’ll work out fine. The only conclusions I can make from that are that a) we’re all complete idiots and b) the next downturn is just a matter of time, so embrace yourself for the collision.
Hooray for us!
Charles Darwin. I’m sure you know the chap – evolution and all that, is what he was all about. You know the most popular idea of his, or at least the most quoted, survival of the fittest? Well, have you ever thought what it actually means?
It doesn’t mean survival of the strongest. Fittest in this case means best suited for the situation and conditions. And that does not have to have anything to do with strength. It may be the fastest runner. Or the one who jumps highest. Or makes best pizza (at a party of carnivores, if you make bad pizza they might eat you instead!).
Remember that. Not because it’s particularly interesting or important, but because one day soon, the nerds will get their revenge on you sporty guys.
