A lot of people find ways to take away power from themselves. At the same time complain that they don’t have enough power. The problem being, they don’t realize it. When they don’t realize that they’re only hurting themselves, it’s instinct to find something to blame that’s the closest scapegoat to what your actual problem is. Hopefully reading the rest of this piece of writing will demonstrate the power that you as a human being truly have instead of assuming you’re being controlled by someone or something other than…yourself.
This blog was based off the idea that knowledge can be one of if not the biggest assets to your personal power, combined with the curiosities of the things that you might truly find wrong in the world. I suppose the best way to start is by looking at the bigger picture. With that I ask a few questions to you. Are there really people socially, or economically above you? My answer for this being my website of course, is yes. Although the real question is who or what got them there? Can we truly from a civilian level even answer that question from what we know?
The beginning of an answer we don’t know will begin with you. Through analogies and real life situations, I hope to demonstrate your potential power and control, through logic and common sense, that to a lot wasn’t logic and common sense in the first place, and how someone who is truly above you in “power” and with intentions that may be good or bad (which is up to you to decide if not both) can and will control you.
We’ll start in what is previously referred to in a previous publish on this website as box one. You, just from being a human being most likely have some sort of craving or habit. Maybe it’s a good one or a bad one, if not more than one. Who deciphers what is good and bad though? what is true logic? The answer that isn’t so very common sometimes is common sense. A small example of a bad habit in most peoples eyes is eating McDonald’s fast food. To a lot it tastes great and its affordable and easy to eat. That’s the best way to get anyone to eat anything that’s for sale right? Right. A person but not all people may I add, who eat excessive amounts of McDonalds experience health problems. At the same time, since McDonalds has made it so easy for them to not only manufacture, produce, and sell their food, has millions and millions of customers. Good for them right? They’ve taken advantage of the world given to them and the concrete elements to find a way to make a lot of money. They’re corporation, thanks to all the money they’ve managed to make, has a large impact on things that don’t even pertain to fast food. Money has made them a universal power. They ‘control’ a lot. They’ve even killed some people in the mean time haven’t they? How evil and ridiculous. Let’s take a few steps back though. They’re not printing all that money by themselves are they? No. If that was legal then wouldn’t anyone do it? The money actually comes from their customer’s pocket, like any other business. The people in the bigger picture have given them all this money and control. They didn’t buy the product themselves right? Otherwise they wouldn’t make any money. They’ve in a perspective, have taken advantage of supplying a habit that no matter if it’s good or bad, taken control over so much. But what happens when people not only realize to themselves that McDonald’s is BAD habit, not only that but just control the habit and use common sense to stop it? Wouldn’t big bad McDonalds… go out of business and the power back to you? That’s an easy to understand example of what this publish is truly about and what I want you as a reader to understand.
Many people think the government has too much control over them, which it may or may not basing your opinion off of reading this publish. An example which everyone seems to know of, the illegalization of marijuana. Why does the government not want us to inhale a silly plant? Tobacco cigarettes are legal aren’t they? Alcohol is even legal. However they’re both extremely ‘addictive’. Millions of people spend their money to die faster for something they really want don’t they. Aren’t they’re government agencies that are supposed to control things like tobacco and alcohol’s destructiveness? Of course. Any person with common sense would assume that they would want the best for you, and maybe they do. Then again, who’s the one that legalized these harmful things in the first place and made them so easy and convenient to obtain? Who ‘feeds the addiction’? not you right? Something other than yourself tells you to put something harmful in your body? Your answers here should be obvious but this bit of a spiel is not something to get you side tracked about what this post is about, it’s only to help prove my point that will later be mentioned. Marijuana in terms of health is so much better than these things! You would think of yourself to be a much smarter person to indulge in it opposed to the things I previously mentioned, would you?
At this point, you’re probably thinking I’m just another liberal protesting the legalization of marijuana. To this possible conclusion you may have, I must deny. Here’s why. Marijuana in comparison to alcohol and tobacco must be a less harmful habit, which scientifically is. I mean dang, it’s been around since our historical records remember! So many smart people have utilized it’s therapeutic benefits! Look at Michael Phelps! How many gold medals again? Some successful people must prove that marijuana is a great thing. Even our president earned the nick name ‘Oganga’ in high school! The point is marijuana may or may not have made these people a success, but they themselves did through excelling in what they were passionate about through hard work. So what’s wrong with marijuana then? So far you may still think nothing and the answer is nothing. On the other side of the spectrum lies a lot of drug addicts. People have devoted their life, time and money to a drug. Or should I refer to as, habit. This is not to bash the drug but to bash the users themselves. They’ll do anything to get their hands on it if they’re addicted. Marijuana is just an example coincides with tobacco and alcohol which are both legal. However since Alcohol and tobacco are both legal, isn’t there someone supplying that makes a ton of money off of these addicts? Someone that ‘controls’ them? The answer is yes. The thing about addiction is that the tendency especially Alcohol and Tobacco, is that the more you ingest, the more you want, or should I say ‘need’. You can’t ‘help it’. That’s the problem. Your supplier loves when you have an unlimited craving to what he or she has. So now not only what ever your INANIMATE addiction is has ‘ control’ over you, your supplier a human being has complete control over you. You get what you want, they get what they want. What ever is more valuable is up to you I suppose. Isn’t the control and money more important than the substance though? You can answer that one. Back to marijuana. Don’t we want this oh so godly plant legalized so bad because it’s a better substitute for alcohol and tobacco? The answer is yes, but unfortunately…. it’s a better substitute for a supplier (your government) as well. I’m not saying everyone that smokes marijuana is addicted, but aren’t there still a ton that do? Bashing on marijuana is not what I’m trying to do, but yet the people who make it addictive for themselves. Marijuana in this case is an example I try to use because it’s universally recognized for it’s benefits, downfalls, and legality. Let’s flip the coin to where it would be legal. All the tax dollars increased, a lot of crime lowered, the less trouble people get in, the more empty jail cells we have, and the less inmates our tax dollars are spent on, which are GOOD things! We want that don’t we? What about the disadvantages? are there even any with what most think of this to be a flawless plant? What makes IT less addictive than alcohol and tobacco which also make you obtain such a good feeling? The common denominator here… is the human element. Nothing is addicting, but people introduce and drown themselves in their addiction, no matter what it may be. Again, I’m not saying all pot smokers are addicted. If we did legalize this plant how many addicts would we have out of the 300 million people in this country? How many millions of people would be at the feet of marijuana? The thing is not only the feet of the substance, but to the people who supply it. Who has truly gained power?
My point is not to go against the legalization of marijuana in this example. It’s to go against the people who gain and lose power through something one or the other is addicted to. As I mentioned before, all these inanimate addictions are not to truly blame for the problems ‘they’ cause… the human element is, the person. By not supplying yourself with what you need to be content, and not only that, letting someone else supply whatever it is you ‘NEED’ have control over you… how dangerous does that sound to you? Even if you didn’t smoke marijuana wouldn’t all millions of people who are addicted just be pouring money in the suppliers hands giving them who are the same people that have authority over you, more ‘power’? What else can have more power than the addictions that they supply? Money. Money is a completely different topic though.
The point so far being combined with the McDonalds example is, who is controlling who here? What habits are good and bad? Who should supply these habits? If all I’m telling you is true, then if our government is our supplier, than why haven’t they legalized it? Well the same reason the person of the opposite gender you have an affection for plays hard to get. They make you want them more through negligence. Of course if they don’t legalize it for all the right reasons it will make you want it more. They want you riled up. Fight for the thing that makes them more money! Or as put in anagogical terms mentioned before, make your crush want you even more. That’s what they want in sometimes ways conveyed to you at face value don’t always go ‘straight forward’.
Demonstrated in the previous text, what truly makes a person more powerful than you? With what they have, how are they able to take control of you? How do they use this for an advantage? Why wouldn’t they let you know what’s wrong with you so they would truly help you instead of making them think you’re being helped by supplying what you need? As mentioned before, marijuana, alcohol, and tobacco are just an example I hope for a lot of people to understand. The actual point being that, you as a human being have all the power to control yourself. Anyone or thing that ‘controls’ you simply just supplies what you ‘need’. What’s the solution for being freed? The answer is controlling yourself. Do something that benefits you. Supply what you truly do need, and what isn’t actually bad. Progress yourself. Don’t let someone else do it for you, because as dumb as it sounds, someone would happily do it for you. Do it for yourself. Even if there is still millions of alcoholics still out there, what if they simply made their own beer/ liquor? What would happen to the original suppliers? Wouldn’t they lose ‘control’? If every McDonald’s customer grilled a cheeseburger they enjoyed just as much if not more, how much ‘control’ would McDonald’s lose? No matter your habit, good or bad, counter economics will only empower you more, and have your former ‘controllers’ lose their ‘power’. I guess what can be taken out of this is, that a lot of the time the person or people that control you are the owns to outsmart, and manipulate you with the thing they want you to believe. Their advantage being the knowledge you don’t you wish you had.
Empower yourself to fit your demands. The only thing that gives humans more power, is other humans, not their supply. Don’t create scapegoats to your problems. Empower yourself through the concrete knowledge you posses, then try to build on it with your curiosity stepping you on the next flight of stairs. Identify the true problem, not all the reasons that justify its existence. When you come down to who or what is truly causing it, then find the solution or if the solution is hidden, then ask who has the answers. If the answer doesn’t make sense, then identify the things you see making logic and common sense not add up. Investigate them. Know that most of the time human emotion, greed, manipulation, or error are the true problems. This doesn’t just apply to your government or drug addiction, it applies to a variety of what you thought problems caused by something else are caused by yourself, or may I say the person that has control over you. Do something. No human is more powerful than another. Take advantage of it. Manifest and capitalize yourself. We live in a country ran by capitalism, kill the problems from the inside. -Neek
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