What's good people? New day, new post, same thoughts that came from a random occurrance in my life lol. If this is your first time reading the blog, Welcome. I hope what you read can spark some thoughts for you. If you're reading because you've somehow become interested with how I think, welcome back. Either way I appreciate the love.
SO today, the thought came from a dinner with one of my friends at a Golden Corral. Seems simple right? Check out where it goes though... lol
So we're at Golden Corral, chillin and eating the mounds of food that an all-you-can eat buffet affords for its customers and my mind goes back to my childhood instantly. When I was a kid, every holiday would be spent at Golden Corral. Birthdays, Celebrations, sometimes even holidays such as Easter if no one wanted to cook, but it seemed like we were always at Golden Corral. So the thing that got me thinking was the steak, of all things. I thought about how, when I was a kid, the best steak would come from Golden Corral. (Sidenote: These are all of my personal opinions on any restaurant metioned, I represent no one and have a right to my personal opinion... Don't need any lawsuits coming my way... lol) But, anyways, I loved Golden Corral food, man, it was always on point. Unparalleled to me. Except for Ryan's sometimes, because their mashed potatoes were crazy good, but I digress.
SO I start thinking about the conference I had just got back from, and all of the different things I've experienced since I've left for college. The wealth that some people have, the upbringing of some people, the experiences and my mind has a field day. What was my main thought? My neice's grandfathers. I'll explain why. And this is how I think about many things so pay attention.
Thinking back to my childhood, my dad was always the big dog, man. We went to Golden Corral and he would eat 3 plates of the steak, extra satisfied with every one, maybe a slight comment of how it was cooked but always content with the steak. (I'm assuming you got the fact that my dad is one of my neice's grandfathers and then her other one will also be mentioned.) We never even noticed how low quality the food was. Either because my parents were always satisfied or because we didn't know higher quality, the food was majestic in our (me and my siblings) minds right?
Then, I thought about the other grandfather. And I'm not using any names, just to make it easy for me. But this guy is ballin, right? It seems everytime I see him, he wants to go to the most expensive steak house around. On top of that he always pays for everyone, $50/$60 meals for the whole table... "You wanna beer too?" If you know me you already know my response, lol. But thinking about him in contrast to my father, it was crazy. He's the type to get the steak and if it's not perfect he might have a nice talk with the waiter and request another one (Which makes complete sense if you're ordering a $50 piece of meat). Now, if you are unaware, the steak you get for $50 is a lot different than the steaks which you receive at the golden corral lol. And somehow there's a complete contrast between the two styles. Then, I thought about how my sister's boyfriend has acted once and how we were taught to act. One time we were out to eat and he didn't like something he got so he sent it back, which may not seem like a lot to you all but to me, we were taught never to do that and if we ordered it we better like it. Whatever I'll get back to my point.
But this is how I assume my sister's boyfriend grew up. Not an all-you-can-eat buffet with low quality food that fills you with all this steroid infested food, but with steaks from cows who graized in fields made of the highest quality grass and wheats. (a tad of an exagerration but you get my point, lol) And now, somehow, my neice is the connector between these two types of men, right?
So, I was thinking about this and began to wonder, what makes people satisfied. Clearly there are people who live in poverty who are not well off, but they are happy with their lives. Then there are the kids who parents make tons of money, or the people who make tons of money themselves, and they completely hate their lives and always want more. I know money doesn't automatically equal sanity or a good life, but it definitely takes away the problems of the poor, and that's a shit load of problems.
While thinking of this my mind was racing, really trying to decide what made people the happiest, and if people as a whole could ever be happy at the same time, some type of Utopia, right? Is it possible at all? Or are people naturally not satisfied? And are we headed further and further away from this point of balance? You know, since all of these fuckin reality TV shows depict these fuckin idiots in these big ass houses with their designer clothing and surgeries to make themselves look fake af to have people admire them and directly brainwash half of the nation to sale their morales for money to aspire to be like said fucking idiots and never settle with what they have in material possessions... but I digress.
So my mind led me everywhere, even slept on it last night, then today I woke up and researched the beginnings of the term. Figures Thomas More made it up in England. Thomas More is a G too, King Henry the 8th really did some dirty shit to him, but you can look that story up though. Any ways figuring out all of this stuff about Utopia obviously led me to look stuff up about dystopia as well. And looking at the contrasts in the two along with thinking about the contrasts that I mentioned before I began to think, which of these seems more realistic for society? A utopian society or dystopian society?
So this is all I have been able to think about for the past couple of days, right? Which of these is realistically more attainable? And as optimistic I would like to stay about the human race, I could not even fathom a utopian society. A place where money is the least of people's worries and people only consume what they need and redistribute wealth in order to people who need it. A place where the main concern of the human race is perserving the planet that we inhabit in order for future generations to prosper and grow. (Even the other day some scientist wrote a paper proving that the world is on the verge of the next great extinction, look it up it's crazy as hell) But in thinking about everything that happens in the world today, I could never convince myself that people will ever get it. And even if some do, the false majority will not, and that is what will drive us to the latter.
For those who don't know, a dystopian society is something like The Hunger Games series. A place where the richest have perfect lives, perfect to the point where they're not sure what suffering really is, but behind the scenes is near slave labor. The poor work, starve, die while the rich party, waste and destroy everything, and reap the benefits of old money. And through my thinking, I believe this would be more likely for the world that we live in today.
If you've read my old posts it's evident that I believe in the disconnect between the rich and poor throughout the world, not just in America. I mean shit, affluenza is even a "disease" now that can get you off of murder trials if you were brought up too rich and priveledged... digress. But clearly with the lust of money and material possessions growing at a rapid pace and the appreciation for life and creation dwindling... I'm afraid utopia will never actually even be a thought.
Feel free to disagree with me, but in a world where it's easier to be praised for making a sex tape rather than finding cures for deadly diseases, or put in the spotlight for "twerking" instead of graduating I believe that our society is headed for a modern day Dark Age that will only lead to death and destruction...
I do, however, believe that someday, that will most likely not be in our lifetime, people will snap and be enlightened and recognize that every breathing thing in this universe is connected through something more powerful than anyone can comprehend. There will be a time when people aren't separated by religion because they understand there is no religion, simply because the human mind can't fathom the works of God. We won't be seperated by language or race because people will finally understand that we are all beings that come from the Almighty, and to hate anyone is equivalent to hating your souls reflection in someone else. We'll stop stripping the land for everything it has because, whenever it will be, we will recognize that everything on this planet breathes and has just as much of a purpose as the richest man on Earth. From the trees in the forest, to the millions of animals killed by moving vehicles, down to the homeless people that people often ridicule, we'll recognize the Godly power in every living thing and somehow make a change...
Until that day, though, we're just going to be remembered in history as the generation that destroyed the planet and led our race to one of the darkest periods in known history...
I believe there is time left to change it, but I also doubt people are willing to sacrifice to change it (see my last post)... Hopefully I'm wrong though... I pray that I am, but whatever I'll get out of my hippie mode now haha...
So, as always, feel free to comment, question, rebuttle respectfully... I appreciate any and all feedback... at the end of the day I'm just trying to expand my mind to different perspectives...
As always, these are just my thoughts folks...
Marcus J.
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