Groundhog Day or Social Zombies

People think in a herd, they go mad in a herd, and they come to consciousness slowly and individually.

© Charles McKay

Most people’s lives are like Groundhog Day. Early rise, standing in traffic jams, eight hours of office slavery with a lunch break, traffic jams again, evenings with beer and TV or the Internet, a drunken Friday, a weekend trip with family and children to the shopping center ... A series of holidays from year to year, winter holidays, February 14 and 23, March 8, May holidays, Victory Day, summer, holidays, birthdays, New Year and all new.

Social zombies live on the principle of “Consume, Reproduce, Live for the Weekend!” Or "Consume, work, die," to put it bluntly. Work weekdays, then leisure at the monitor or in a hop company or in pursuit of a new purchase, a portion of sex or a dose of entertainment, and in the morning again work, and so on in a circle.

They live in anticipation of graduation from school, then university or technical school, then wedding, and – before spending the rest of their years waiting for pensions and payment of mortgage payments – when children are born and grow up, who will also wait for school to finish, then university / technical school, when there is a wedding, mortgage payments, their children will grow up, who will also live according to the above scenario. Unless they want to interrupt this existence by moving toward a higher goal.

The universe of the majority is based on three pillars – the desire to dominate, sexual satisfaction and the desire to live tasty and satisfyingly. Power, sex and money are the “Holy Trinity” of the modern unconscious religion, the three hooks that keep the Matrix from getting off, the three parasites that pump human energy, the “gasoline” of the System. These three elements, like the three heads of the mythical serpent, are interconnected, mutually nourished and support each other. The strengthening of one leads to saturation of the other.

If the essence of the life of the Man-Consumer is work, entertainment, reproduction and consumption, then the Man-Creator is characterized, as the name suggests, by the creation of a new and useful, which improves, develops and harmonizes the surrounding world. Consumption is a man of the masses, of which the vast majority are. There are fewer creators, but they are the ones that set the world in motion. Consumers don’t decide for themselves, they follow trends. The creators set the trends.

Man-consumer only takes, uses values. He is looking for a high in consumption [entertainment, sex, shopping and showing off ponts]. The Creator creates value himself, and is high in creating something useful.

The consumer person sees happiness by achieving external goals – the accumulation of wealth, the acquisition of property, etc. The Creator finds happiness in creation.

The consumer listens to society with its programming, lives in reality created by TV and the media, thinks as suggested from the screen / monitor. Man-Creator listens first of all to himself, has his own powerful reality, based on what he has learned and seen himself.

Confidence, attitude and value system of the consumer is based on the reactions of others and the value of his property. That is, I am confident in myself as long as people treat me well, whether women give me [and what], whether I have an apartment [and what], whether I have a car [and what], how prestigious my work is, what brands I wear, what device I talk to ... and so on.

Confidence, attitude and value system of the Creator is based on who he is, what he can do, what he does, what he creates usefully.

That is, the inner core of the Man-Creator is based on the level of mission, and the confidence of the Man-Consumer is based on the level of property and the reaction of others, i.e. on transient values. If what these values are based on collapses, confidence will also collapse.

The consumer person needs work for subsistence and entertainment. And he will realize himself and identify his personality with the way he spends his leisure. In the Man-Creator, the work [almost always] is the fulfillment of his personal mission.

The meaning of the life of the Man-Consumer: to work - for money, money - for entertainment and the acquisition of ponts, pont - for the sake of sex and raising the sense of their own greatness. And to recreate their own kind. What is the meaning of the Creator’s life?

Create and leave behind what is useful and survives it. Create and leave behind what makes the world a better place.

The consumer person measures his dignity by the size of his home, the brand of his car, smartphone, suit. The dignity of a Man-Creator is measured by the utility of his works – what he has produced, what he has built, what he has created, how much real benefit he has rendered by his work.

In other words, the Man-Consumer respects himself for what he has, and the Man-Creator respects himself for what he does.

In our opinion, true self-worth is not the achievement of external goals, it is not the brand of the car, not the area of the dwelling, not brand clothes and fashionable devices, not the amount in the bank account and not how many women you had. The true value that will remain after the death of a person is the fruit of his creative work.

Getting rid of Consumption as a way of life and the path to Creation passes precisely through the comprehension of social programming and, as a result, through self-knowledge, finding harmony with oneself, self-sufficiency, and the pursuit of happiness. Happiness comes to a person when he stops chasing “ideals” and goals imposed on him, accepts himself and things as they are and lives “in the moment.”

“True courage does not consist in heroic efforts to achieve external goals, but in the determination to go through the terrible experience of confronting oneself. Until the individual finds his true essence in himself, any attempt to give meaning to life through manipulation in the external world and the achievement of external goals will remain fruitless and ultimately doomed to defeat by quixoticism.

I don’t want to be misunderstood here. I do not say that “money is evil,” “covetousness is sin,” one should give up earnings, go to the mountains for enlightenment, and be poor, but righteous. Money is very important because it gives you relative material freedom. But making money is not a goal in a global sense. It's about keeping you alive. In particular, this applies to cases when the money earned does not cost anything, they are mined to simply waste on entertainment and unnecessary things. Buying and accumulating “status” property is not a goal, it is consumption.

A person who sets the goal of his life to earn as much as possible and buy expensive property will sooner or later find himself in a situation when he realizes that he has things, but there is no meaning in life. That all the gloss, luxury and glamour cannot replace the feeling of happiness, joy, the feeling that he is really living.

External well-being does not mean inner happiness, such a person will not feel satisfied, no matter what wealth he surrounds himself with. That is why many top businessmen, politicians and stars of show business try to drown out their internal vacuum in alcohol, drugs, social parties and sexual perversions, about which the media like to tell, passing this “status” pastime as signs of “beautiful life”.

In short, you should not strive to achieve success, but to make your life meaningful.

It is wonderful when a person manages to combine material wealth with inner satisfaction. But that’s exactly what it takes to ignore the pressure of society and look for yourself. How do we build? There are no universal recipes. The main thing is to listen to yourself, look for your niche, even by trial and error, and do what you love, what you do best, and what benefits people.

It does not matter what you create – design or build buildings, write paintings, music or books, create another creative product, build a useful business, teach or give advice – it does not matter. The main thing is to create with love what you love and what you do best. Even if you do not get income from this in the form of money, still, life with meaning, with a positive goal is much richer than the races of consumers for a new dose of pleasures, sex and fasts, more meaningful than the dull existence of the inhabitants. This life, in comparison with the former, acquires completely different, bright colors. published

P.S. And remember, just changing our consumption – together we change the world!

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