There were and still are lots of situations in life when people live in an illusion or refuse to accept the truth. People used to believe that by working hard and respecting the laws, you are achieving the most. But in reality, we are being punished when we follow the regulations, when we are trying to be a law-abiding citizen.
America used to be the land of opportunities, where individualism, trying to succeed with will and determination was the way of pursuing happiness. Do the things that you love should be the right approach. And you should give things to your fellow man upon your will not because your government or your society say so. I read it in a novel: "Before you do things for people, you must be the person who get things done. But to get things done, you must love doing it."
In present world we pursue a carrier, we try to make as much money as possible, trying to feed our family, buying a house and tangible things that makes our life comfortable, because we feel we worked hard for it, so we deserve it. But then comes the government and takes more and more of your income mainly in a form of taxes, which you are willing to give away, because you believe you help to your fellow citizens and your economy. The government - by rules and regulations - is taking over our personal life. What is wrong with this world? Too many people want to tell you how to live and what is right in your life. Lately the idea is that, the state owns you. You have to belong to a certain society or certain parties, you have to share certain views.
In 2008 as the mortgage industry collapsed and millions lost their homes, the financial crises was blamed on bankers for landing money to unqualified buyers; which was the truth. But most of us didn't see it was actually the government who was trying to get everybody to buy a house even if they couldn't afford it. We refused to see that, the bankers just used the opportunity by following the rules. Then the government responded to the crises with emergency measures and bailouts to - as they said - save the economy, but a lot of people thought it was rather like a reward for a bad behavior. Meanwhile millions of American lost their jobs, the government was spending trillions on rescues and stimulus plans. They were spending the money they have never had with the national debt continued to rise.
We don't realize that it slowly becomes impossible for a man to live without braking the laws. They want us to be law-abiding citizens, but how is it possible when our government passes the kind of laws that can't be observed nor enforced nor interpreted.
America's founding fathers has a different idea of a government. They just wanted regular people to have a little break to go to Washington to represent the greater good, and then to go back to their jobs. They wanted a government of people representing their constituency. Somewhere along the way we lost that. Instead we developed a new job: a professional politician. And those politicians realized that, they need a government with a strong hand to support their ideas. But the whole concept of a powerful central government is a mistake.
People don't realize, they are being blinded. And the most helpful and powerful tools in this process is the media. It has a war against individualism, it favor collectivness. It suggest you, what you should ware, how you should live, how much you should give, the trend what kind of carrier you should achieve. The truth is that all work is a creative work, done by an individual thinking mind. Anything can be a field of human creativity and human genius, but you have to work. What our inventors, or our architects would've had done if their hand was tied down? Because that is what is happening now. It's a great example of the lesson we learned in The Allegory of the Cave. We just refuse to see it. We tied ourself down with so many regulations and laws that we can no longer function. Dependency can sound attractive, it could be a wonderful thing but actually it is a form of enslaving people and eventually it leads to the ultimate dystopia.
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