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Originally Posted by lurkingwolf
But what is education, really? And the career it preps you for? It's a way to make more money(a marker of worth determined by society) with which to buy more things that are genuinely unneeded. I know I'm stealing this from Chuck Palahniuk, but we start to develop the "Ikea Nesting Instinct"
Is a couch going to improve your happiness by much?
How about a vacation from the work you've enslaved yourself to?
Is media going to make anyone truly happy?
Accomplishment is a much better goal. Not accomplishment for the perpetuation of a valueless society, but the accomplishment of self-betterment and continued survival. Everything we buy with our paychecks, we could make ourselves, or take ourselves. Luxury can still be enjoyed by a hunter-gatherer, it just takes more work, which, in turn, makes it far more rewarding.
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You ask some english major whether or not they make a lot of money. If you want to make a lot of money go into business, but if there is something that you enjoy, then you go into that field, like if you like animals become a zoologist so that you can help them and most likely you wouldn't make nearly as much if you had decided to take a job that you would hate in business.
And with quoting chuck in fight club, and as much as I like that move/book and the rest of his stuff, that is part of what a lot his stuff is about, thinking for yourself. If you read fight club, rather than watch the movie, you might realize that the narrator is just being led around by tyler and the people of project mayhem are just mindless space monkeys. And with your anarchy, do you think that book would have been written and printed or the movie acted out and edited to its final brillance if their was anarchy like what you and others have spoken of.