On education....How Learning systems kill Creativity....

SUBTITLES OF ALMOST ALL THE LANGUAGES

A Manufactured Demand Society...The Story Of Bottled Water

Something on the Crisis....of DEBT!

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Yours is the Earth...

...IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it

And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling 1889

I'll keep it short and sweet — Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.

This line is from Charles Montgomery Burns, the epitome of the evil businessman as thought by the creators of the Simpsons. I laugh a lot whenever I watch this episode. But what makes it even funnier is the irony that one of the most watched television series in the world is making people laugh by exploiting their own misery. I do not know if we are (the vast majority of humanity) blind, ignorant, indifferent or just plain stupid. It is happening right now, in front of our eyes, and we are doing nothing but obliviously “watching” a few white collar thieves take control of our own lives, handling us like puppets.

I am not going to waste my time, and yours, ranting about how a few dozen bankers control the destiny of the world. Thank God we live in a day and age where any type of information can be easily found in a matter of seconds. Maybe instead of watching that Family Guy episode for the 123^th time, surfing the net searching the next porn video which will desensitize your already fried brain, or losing hours of your time browsing through youtube or facebook maybe you could do a little research and start to question some of the things that are happening in front of your eyes. But no, your brain has not been educated to think this way. So, why does this happen?

For some reason, for which I have not yet found an answer, men have continuously tried to enslave other men. The best example for me is the Catholic Church. They were and, whether you see it or not, continue to be successful at controlling people. At the beginning, their power was acquired through holding the vast majority of the population uneducated and illiterate. Any type of scientific progress was vilified and punished severely. The Catholic Church was against scientific progress for the sole reason that it took power away from them. They used fear (see any similarities today?) coupled with cruel punishments to control the population, that was what the “Santa” Inquisición was for ( I have still to fond what is saint in torturing and killing people). This worked extremely well for a couple of hundred years. In my opinion, their downfall in trying to control the world was the idea that they could stop progress. The people that are trying to control the world nowadays are much smarter; they have managed to create a society that is inherently slaved without knowing! You have to take your hat off to them. Think of it for a second. If you were born in the western world, from the moment you come out of your mother’s womb you have already been set some expectations. Normally, whether you like it or not because no one will ask you, you are sent to school before you can even talk. It is like sending you to the army, schools, from kindergarten up to post-doctoral studies, are designed to prepare you to serve the social establishment we are living in, without questioning if it is the best establishment.

My first attempt at trying to understand economics did not happen until college. It was the first time I was introduced to the mathematics behind our current economic system. My professor was a PhD in economics with a vast knowledge and experience in the economic policies of the western world. This class was a brief, basic introduction of how capitalism works. I remember that I was shocked at what I was hearing and observing. In order for capitalism to work, it needs unemployment. Economical crises are supposed to happen in capitalism. Really? What the fuck is this about? I was even more astounded when I saw the other 23 idiots in the class nodding stupidly and just taking notes. Are you kidding me? Say something god damnit! Why is the system like this? Why can we not try a more fair system? Ah no! Fuck it, the only reason these idiots are taking this class is because they have to. They will take notes, pass the exam and forget whatever the fuck it is they learned. The only reason they are getting the fuckin degree anyways is to go work for a company and make a shit load of money. Why? Because this is what is expected from them, from everyone. Succes means how much money you have. This is the fucking, no-good, soulless society we have been born in. And the people who run this society have been clever enough to make it seem the perfect society so that no one will ask questions.

To be continued...

Living a Life without Life....

What can I say….? As a Greek I feel strange…I don’t know if it is despair, anger, sadness or disappointment, what I feel …Maybe all these together! The only thing that had remained inside Pandora’s Box was hope…Now I think that not only hope is not living there anymore but she cries alone somewhere , cursing her eternal patience…

Whose fault is it finally?? Yes the ones that govern us for sure…Yes we are to blame too ,because we elect them… And the ones that govern the ones that govern us ,isn’t it?  Who are they?? Go read some history please…no, no that school book that have been made by them to fuck your brains at your most important age…No , I am talking about real history…behind fake ideologisms , behind rotten politics and ideas… Pure manipulating history , pure strategies , pure propaganda , pure nothing…. Cause this is all our history the last 300 years! Pure emptiness! Civil wars , Dictatorships , Unending fighting , politics , communists, capitalists, socialists , nationalists , poor people sleeping , poor people waking up and sleeping again….This is our history!! And above all, the bankers! The Bankers I apologize...they deserve a big B….they deserve it cause they manage to rule our world our lives our everything and still to be out of target from the mass and still people trust them and still the world to spin around their own created system! There are too many writings about them so I am not going to analyze this subject here….If you want to learn and wake up just spend one hour searching and reading instead of putting your mind into the washing machine… Ooooh I am being too bad with you huh?? I know what you are thinking… ‘Why you think you are better than us…You do the same things so don’t preach on us…..’ …Am I right ?? Well, look….Firstly you have no idea if I am like this or not….But I will say that I am ….Not like you but way worse…. SO WHAT??? Stop searching an excuse to say ‘fuck it why should I care’ ! It is the easiest thing! And this is just an excuse believe me! Even if I am the worst person , judge my words not my life! Maybe this is the most I can do….but at least I am doing it! What is the most that you can do???? The absolute nothing??? I hope not…..

Have you ever wondered where are all those Great civilizations of humanity???  The Chinese, the Indians , the Saxons , the French, the Mexicans , the Egyptians, the Greeks , the Italians ??? Isn’t it funny??? No one exists anymore!!!! Where is that superiority of human kind ??? Where are the Great Ideas ???  Where are the Big and Progressive Ideas?? What happened to art??? Why we only care on how many MBA’s we have ??? Why we care only about money and how the companies can make more??? Living almost only for this???? From the cradle to the grave , careless for humans….

You can go on living careless like this or thinking that I think of conspiracies as I am sure that you have done so many times before when someone tried to make you think…I do not have the power to get in your brain and change it – and I would never wanted to do so… Humanity has to wake up by itself!! Not because tomorrow you will be poor while you were living ‘free’ and thoughtless for the really important things , not because suddenly you feel in your skin our rotten society and history , but because you feel HUMAN and you care for the other human beings! And you can’t afford the injustice, you can’t sustain the depression , the humiliation , the miserable life, civilization , entertainment (Psyxagogia in greek =training of the soul) , the control of your thoughts and your soul! 

Can you do it??? If yes NOW is the time! ACT !! WAKE UP!!! 

NOW!!!