The system's great trap: it neither suffocates you nor sets you free
Hello, Project Hope friends, good morning everyone. Today I woke up thinking about something I'd heard many times, but yesterday I saw it more clearly. I'm referring to how the system is designed in a very curious way... or rather, very calculated. It gives you just enough so you don't rebel, so you keep having hope, but never enough to make you truly free or independent.
You can tell from everything. In salaries, for example. Most people work long hours, five or six days a week, and barely make ends meet. Vacations? Real savings? Investments that generate something beyond the month-to-month? Very few can handle that. But of course, they give you a small raise every now and then, they let you take out a cell phone on installments or buy a motorcycle on credit, and then you feel like "something is moving forward." But deep down, everything remains the same, because you still need the system, you still depend on it.
And this is no coincidence. It's designed to work this way. You don't have too much, but you don't have too little either. Just enough so you don't say anything, but the minimum so you don't slip away. Even education follows this same line: they prepare you to be a good employee, not to question or create something of your own. And don't even mention healthcare, where it sometimes seems they'd rather you live sick but functional than be completely cured.
Sometimes I wonder if all this isn't part of some kind of web, a giant trap disguised as "freedom" and "progress." Because in theory, we are free, but in practice, we are tied: to a bank, to a debt, to a job we don't like, to a system we can't change.
I don't know about you, but I'm increasingly convinced that the solution lies in becoming aware of this, in finding ways to live with less dependence, in learning to question what we're sold as "normal."
At the end of the day, even if it's little by little, I believe we can move toward a place where decisions aren't made for us by others, don't you think?
