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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!!!

Wake Up,Freak Out

Why...?

You fail….you lose….you got sick…you struggle….WHY?

I am sure you have raised your hands so many times asking …WHYYYY??? haha! I am sorry for the laughter but to WHOM are you pointing your question???  To God?  To me??  To the universe??  Let’s say that you don’t believe in gods and stuff….so consequently your question has no answer!! You fail, lose, struggle because it has just happened!!! The guy next to you is in perfect shape, his pockets full of money , and has no worries compare to yours! So…..what is happening?? You still asking why aren’t you? Maybe this is not the right question…..Lets now say that you believe to God-whoever God we don’t care here….So your ultimate question goes to Him! But…who are you that you will ask God WHY??? Because He wants it like this! For sure he is gonna have his reasons…and by believing to Him you have to accept His will….Not to mention that if your God is one of the good ones you should know that whatever he does,it is for your good because His love is countless….So again…..you ask the wrong question!!

At least now we have a clue that no matter who you are and what you believe the question to your life’s biggest problems is not WHY!! I am not here to manipulate you….I will just try to see if there is something better to do rather than asking Why to the air-God-whatever…

So…I will use the example of poverty….let's assume that you are poor in this extend (the real,deep,unsustainable poverty is a HUGE issue but for now let's stick on this)…you make it through everyday, you have food, a house to live but you have absolutely no access to the ‘entertaining’ area created from the system….sometimes your life seems miserable,especially when you compare it to all the other ‘civilised’ people, that have the opportunities to do whatever they want whenever they need it.

Is this the truth? Are they really able to have whatever they need ?

Yes of course, I will use LOVE as a first example… But its not only that they cant buy love -as The Beatles once sung – it goes deeper… Money and getting involved to their system that produces money connects everything to the consuming power of   a human being….Consequently people with money and power are living in a world made of false promises and false expectations … From the time we are born we are being bombarded of how money and wealth can lead us to happiness and to prosperity.Think now…How is it easier to experience true love in this life? Love has nothing to do with material things I hope that everyone agrees to that…So if our lives are full of material needs and consuming thoughts linked to our ‘piece of mind’ , inevitably Love will always be linked and compared and confused  with the biggest diamond gift, the newest game for the Playstation , the most expensive night at the most expensive hotel and NEVER with the real nature of Love….

Lets get back now to you (or me)…. We have nothing except the basics…But if for one moment – and I am sure that these moments have been there to your lives as they have been for me too- draw the line and stop envying the rich and all the values that the system imported to our lives , I am sure ,SURE, that we will obtain the highest emotion in this life…..FREEDOM! We are FREE! We can love our partners not because of their money and their power and what they can do for us , but because they are our brothers and sisters and we share the same values of Love,Peace,Freedom….We can show our children what real Love is , real Freedom  that has nothing to do with just one Christmas gift. We can be together because we share the same ground , the same dreams , the same thoughts not because of the next golf game we have to play. And from this situation , we can make our lives better…. We can organize our actions, we can boycott their establishments, we can try to bring our future closer to our nature….And for me our Nature is Love,Peace,Freedom….

We have to be together….Poverty is our weapon….But instead of taking lives it just changes them…

Stop identifying Happiness with Wealth! Stop dreaming of being like them...Stop helping them to grow more and more...

Stop asking Why……

Start shouting NOW!

Carpe Diem!

We seek pleasure through golden rubbish

adventurous patterns of a life above,They say...

sick routine enclosed monotony to my way

contemptible,lamentable shallow to the bone,I say...

So dream on-chase the infeasible-feel the will to live

and cease the day!

Slow Down....but Dance!

Did you watch the kids in the playground

or did you hear the rain as it falls on the ground

Did you see the crazy butterfly out from the cage

did you loiter the sun while dark night fades 

You’d better slow down

Don’t dance so fast

Life is short says the clown

The music won’t last forever...

Do you run ,so anxious,every single day

do you hear the answer when you say a simple hey

When the day is over do you go thoughtfull to your bed

with a hundred business-thoughts spinning in your head

You’d better slow down

Don’t dance so fast

Life is short says the clown...

Did you see the sadness in your kid’s eyes overflow

as hope expires by your killing ignorance

Did you lost in touch did you let a friendship die

cause a phonecall was the fear in your miserable trance

You’d better slow down

Don’t dance so fast

Life is short says the clown

The music won’t last forever...

Happiness Real Only When Shared

Happiness is the most misunderstood word in human’s history…They say to you ( we will talk about ‘Those’ later…) you have to work hard to find happiness.You have to buy more to find happiness.You have to make a family because you will end alone and happiness will be gone!So you work….all day all night….and you buy and you get loans and you buy again…and you find the first woman or man that you feel safe in the meaning of their happiness,and you get married….and now you have everything!!!! So you are happy!! THINK though!! Are you??? You feel happy when you work everyday?? When you have to stay until late to finish the big 2 billion project of your company?? You feel happy when you buy a new 40 inches TV and you put it on your big empty wall and stay there watching for hours and hours the golden rubbish that They feed you and even worse you feed your children with them too…Do you feel happy with the woman or the man you have next to you?I really wish you do, but even if she or he is the one that you love the most, have you ever asked her or him if they are happy in their lifes??? Watch out now! Do not mess the happiness They have created for your mind with even a 10% of the real happiness you could experience! In the world we live in ,happiness is almost equal to self-esteem and self-pleasure.We try to compete all the others around us in every sense.Better job ,more money,better cellphone,bigger house,stronger car ,prettier wife,wealthier husband, more power,more influence …Leading to more ignorance, more selfiness , blinding ourselves from feelings and pulling us away from our natural connection with each other. But They have their way…you think about this for one minute and the next one you are being attacked by Their homemade world that get you on your knees…And you crawl and you fall deeper in the mud…and then here comes the day when you wake up! And you look around you and you think ‘that was my life…well I hope my children will try harder…’ And then you raise your children in the same way, with the same methods ,in the same system making them unaware as you used to be….and the circle goes on and on and on…

Have you ever thought about all these? Will you remember them tomorrow?

Nobody is more enslaved than the one who faulty believes he is free…

Instead of a Manifest...

I don’t know how to start…..this can not disappoint me though. Nobody must be disappointed by the lack of ideas, motivation or reason…This is how we’ve been raised ,this is how we have learned to think , this is how we have learned to live…and NO , we are not to blame …

We are not to blame for what is daily depressing our lives..for the endless hours of thinking, trying, doubting and deciding for subjects that concern mainly others…NO we are not to blame for the poor ones, the abandoned and the hopeless.We are not to blame for the wars, the diseases, the alienation and hatred, the envy and suppression…I am not to blame –neither are you – for the homeless and the alcoholics, for the depressed and lonely, neither of course for you and me….

But when I try to think myself next to them, this is when I become disappointed….and I know that we are ALL to blame…

Now I know how to start for once…