Never Let Them Take Our Dignity
Dignity. I’ve noticed that many things in American society are geared toward taking away people’s dignity to keep them in line. Want help from a social program these days? That will require jumping through many hoops. Want a job? Be sure to remain cheerful and compliant. Maybe it’s just that I’ve read both Bright-Sided: How [...]
Keep the Passion; Don’t Get Worn Down
Passion is deeply important in life. Without a passion for something people lose sight of things. They lose the will to go on, to keep struggling. Generally speaking, I don’t enjoy reality television. Sometimes, however, I do enjoy an episode of Kitchen Nightmares, which is the one in which Chef Gordan Ramsey tries to help [...]
Companies Ask for Loyalty They Don’t Deserve
Loyalty is a very important quality in a person, in my mind only second to honesty (and that’s only if we’re ranking virtues, which we’re probably not). Loyalty to people, however, not to brands or companies. Back when I had an office job, I read a letter in a magazine about employees’ loyalty to their [...]
Enthusiasm, A Requirement for Employment, Life?
As an unemployed person, I get worn down pretty easily by the messages the bosses are sending me. It seems that in order to get job one needs to bend over backwards for the littlest thing and really love doing it. All companies want someone who is “enthusiastic” about working there. Does anyone worship at [...]
Classes of Freedom
Freedom: It’s an over-talked topic in the 21st century, and perhaps we’re thinking about it all wrong. Most Americans will tell me that I live in a free country, and I can’t really agree with them. Sure, on paper we have freedoms like freedom of speech, religion, etc. We usually do pretty well enforcing those [...]
Ruins of Capitalism: How Long Can We Look Away?
I have always been fascinated by the places we close off, forget about, leave behind. Usually it looks like we made a hasty retreat, that we did not have time to pick up our messes before leaving. Recently, I StumbleUponed a site of abandoned places. One of them was a series of photos from Detroit, [...]
