The illusion of life for the future, instead of living in the present.

Our society - that is, we are, each of us - defines man as a vicious circle, ordering him to be free and separate from the world. However, it in fact is not, because if it was free and separate himself this order would be pointless. Under these conditions, the society manages to instill in him the illusion of a separate, just as the words of a hypnotist create the illusion of the subjects.

Hoodwinked so individual - instead of having to perform a unique function in the world - is disappointed by spending all their efforts to achieve self-contradictory goals. As everyone now consider it a separate personality caught in the irrational and hostile universe, its main task is to outsmart the universe and the desire to subjugate nature. Obviously, this is absurd, and therefore learn to live and work for the future, because in the present, he will never reach the goal. Soon he begins to believe that it can not be a desire in the end turns, if not for him, then at least for his children. Thus, we have deduced the type of human beings who are not able to live in the present -. That is really

After all, if you can not live a full life now, the future will always be a ghost for you. This eliminates any sense to make plans for the future, because you can never enjoy it. After all, when your plans come true at last, you will have to wander some other future. You'll never, never be able to fall apart and with complete satisfaction to say, "Well, I have achieved everything you wanted!" Over the years, you are completely lost this ability, because you are always prepared for the future, rather than to show you how to live in the present.

In other words, you brought up and hypnotized conveyor system of our education. After all, to get an education, people today must overcome many barriers or steps leading as expected to higher success. Initially, a nursery or kindergarten, then a few years of primary school, where you prepare for the solemn instant of transition to high school! But then again step, higher and higher towards the desired goal - the university. Here, at the university, if you smyshlen enough, you can be as long as desired, then going to graduate school and becoming a perpetual student. Otherwise you step by step will lead to the great outside world, where you shine have a family and do business or be an expert in a certain narrow field of expertise. However, graduation day - is very conditional event because at the first meeting of employees you find yourself back in the same old system. Here you will advise to quickly cope with their tasks (and if you're really going to deal quickly enough, the circle of your responsibilities will be expanded). Your hard work will help advance through the ranks to the position of manager, deputy director and finally director of his own show (then you will have forty - forty-five). In the case of Social Security employees and investment professionals interested in your plans on how best to organize their future retirement. And you would think that this is - the ultimate goal and that, having reached it, you can finally, lounging in a chair, begin to enjoy the fruits of their labor. But when that day finally comes, your long-term concern and zeal are felt weak heart, artificial teeth, prostate disease, impotence, progressive myopia, and indigestion. »

All of this probably would not be so bad if at each stage of the game you would have treated it as a game.

Alan Watts - The Book of the taboo on the knowledge of who you are