Who does not Thank for Little will not Thank for Much.

Today's post will probably dip into more of the political sphere. So you've been warned.

The funny thing about having an easy life, is that it breeds entitlement. People, especially young, begin to feel like they are owed something. Usually that something is yet an even easier life. They begin to feel like they deserve it. They feel special, so they whine, mope, and complain when things aren't as they “should be.” Society isn't giving them what they worthy of. Hopefully you get my point.

So imagine you've just been stranded on an Island. You can take 2 of the next 5 people with you. An Engineer, a Mechanic, a Farmer, a Soldier, and last, but not least, an Artist. Me, I'm taking the Engineer and the Farmer with me. Why? Because an Engineer is smart. He is worth something on this Island to me. And the Farmer. He is worth something to me as well. And what do both bring to the table? They both increase my chance of survival for what, I hope, are obvious reasons. On an island nothing is easy. Nothing is free. Everything has to be created in order to survive. Nothing is given to you, nothing is owed to you. What you put into it is what you get out of it.

So what is my point with that illustration? I'm ascribing worth to people in an economical and survivalistic way, and in that way only.(I'm not referring to worth in a spiritual way.) Basically a persons value is ascribed to them based on their knowledge, skill, and ability to work. The Mechanic and the Artist do not have nearly the worth as the two I chose for surviving on a desert island.

In this age of modern technology, life here on earth for most people, at least in the United States, is extremely easy. Well, my life is easy anyways. If you disagree with me, think about what life was like 100 or 200 or even 300 years ago. Our Generation has life way easier then any generation in all of history prior. Our lives may not be very simple, but it is easy. It is convenient. 

 

An entitled individual lacks worth for the general growth of society. A generation of entitled people will eventually ruin a society. Entitlement, I feel, springs from a lack of understanding. A lack of a sense of reality. A lack of the sense of the need to survive. Entitlement breeds Socialism. If history has anything to say on the matter, a move towards socialism is the downfall of any great and comfortable society. When people switch their focus from survival to create a Utopia, that society becomes worthless. But that is my perspective anyways. Take it for what you will.

-Your lazy and somewhat overweight friend, -Jacob.