by MichaelaChung | May 6, 2014 | Authenticity, Blog, Nonconformity
Robotic efficiency is raping your soul. The world has become dangerously obsessed with productivity and computer-like efficiency. It’s normal to forget to eat. To breath. To sleep. The problem is, humans are meant to eat, and breathe, and sleep … and laugh, and play, and make mistakes. Machines don’t do any of those things. They are objects. They are made to be sold, bought, used, and replaced. Lessons on humanity from Boko Haram Last night I read a CNN article about Boko Haram kidnapping more than 200 Nigerian girls.The chilling headline of the article says it all: ‘I will sell them,’ Boko Haram leader says of kidnapped Nigerian girls The article goes on to quote the Boko Haram leader as saying, “There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell. He commands me to sell. I will sell women. I sell women.” His words are sickening, to say the least. Humans are not factory-made commodities. They are not meant to be sold on the open market. Anyone with even a thread of moral fiber would agree with that. Are you for sale? And, yet, many of us have put ourselves up for sale. We’re holding up an invisible sign that says: “For sale by owner – will work with computer-like efficiency at the expense of my own happiness and wellbeing. Now accepting American Express.” We are working harder, smarter and faster for the profit of everyone but ourselves. The idea of living life on our own terms is a radical concept. We are lead to believe that only freaks and misfits would choose a life that...
