Quote Originally Posted by Master View Post
I do not think we are really slaves if we are happy, content, have relative freedom to live our mortal lives as best as we can then I am a happy slave.

Utopia, power, money, fame, are things that people ultimately want but they waste their life chasing a dream when they should live for the moment. Appreciating the now and loving the moment is really living.
You sound like the guy on the matrix who wanted to go back in "Ignorance is bliss".

Your rights are slowly being eroded away, little by little. There will come a point when you'll say "How did that happen?", "I'm not happy with that" and by then it will be too late to go back.

Materialistic things are a con, they want us to be enslaved in debt and be perfect consumers. I agree we should enjoy the moment, and our loved ones, those are the most important things. But life should be about empowering the individual, free to explore our creativity and knowledge, and building strong families and community units. Unfortunately the system is designed to now have both parents working to parents working to pay bills, leaving the children to be indoctrinated not educated by the school system or worse neglected and vulnerable. There is so much to the design, I feel for those that are unable to break away from it.