In previous post I used Marmon as a replacement for capitalism. I state that they were attracted to the spread put out by Marmon as if it was an evil to be eliminated. In truth, what I am trying to say that it cannot be eliminated. We lived in a capitalist world. By capitalist, I mean, worker's by it's very nature are meant to be exploited. This means, for every dollar that you earn, a large proportion will go to the capital owner.
This is a lot harder to consume than to say that God of Money is looming large over your life. That is why I am actually quite disappointed with a lot other's whom are not able to see that, the capitalist world should aid you and not enslaved you.
When the boss asks you to reply an email at 3am via your Blackberry, you are enslaved by the capitalist world. Insofar that, Blackberry is an invention of the capitalist world and yet you are actually stuck to an umbilical cord by the very thing that one wishes to praise or to be prized over.
How then a capitalist man be said to be in control when one is swept by waves of capitalist invention.
I used to be a banker and I used to say that many times, I was quite proud of it until one realized how stupid some bankers are turning out to be servants of the capital world.
My ex-colleague was a bright kid and he calls himself sharp and he was a ex-banker, just like myself. But he was like a child on sugar simply because he swept by capitalism. He suffers from trappings of the Marmon god and was constantly changing his mind on matters and was extremely "energetic" because of how fast trends can change the world. He was such a energy bunny because consumers knew more and much faster about he does and the only way, one can stay ahead is to go with the trends. But in reality, he has no idea what is happening.
He has not been able to find that one thing that makes him know how the capitalist world tick, and he has to find out himself.
The capitalist world rides on cash flow. Your business is only as good as your cash flow or even your cash flow projection. And if you had a business that requires your to report negative cash flow and not necessarily "profits", your business is as good as dead. This means that if you are incapable to even foresee positive cash flow for your business, you would have to be really "entrepreneurial", which means having to find ways to make your business tick.
When you "entrepreneurial", rather than a "blue chip", what does that mean, you are always finding ways to find business and having to worry about "cash flow" every single day. It also means you have a "bad" business.
Think of Microsoft, is it a blue chip company,. Think about Apple prior to the iPhone and the iOS, ha that is the difference. If you have no control over your cash flow, you have no control over your company.
Hence that is why I called my friend an absolute "dickhead".
People who works have a positive cash flow, while me on the other hand doesn't. But what these people never realize is that is cash flow the most important thing in the world.
Is that the way, you want to live your life.
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Of Marmon and Groundhog days
It's been some time since I have written anything here. More than half a year. The reason is very simple, is that I don't think I would be changing anything much just by writing. And I am not even sure anyone is even reading them in the first place.
As I have mentioned before I contracted a brain illness called pyshcosis where I can hear voices in my head. It has affected the way I perceived things and hence there has been adverse effects on the way I view work, living and my life.
I have slowed down a lot and viewed many things with ambivalence. I used to view success narrowly as having all the material goods in the world and now I cannot get excited about anything that smacks of even materialism.
I just started on a new position as a Financial Services Consultant in an insurance company and I am used to filling up personal data on my people's income and am beginning to realize how far behind I fallen behind other's.
People are getting promoted and earning a pay I used to see as a benchmark but yet I cannot seem to muster the energy to try to emulate them. I used to hate to fall behind others but now I see them almost with envy and with a sense of "better-than-thou" attitude.
Envy stems from the perks of having money in the pocket and able to enjoy the fruits of our labour. The "better-than-thou" attitude comes from the almost blind worship of the Marmon that even surprises me. I enjoy good things in life but it doesn't mean that I will go after chasing for it blindly. And the manner by which many chase over the proverbial pay raise and promotion only smacks of materialism that transformed into almost a blind chase for the Marmon.
This Marmon comes in several forms. It comes in forms of even your family. All families want better things in life but what becomes a worship is when you actually spend more time working and then compensating with material goods with your family. The best part is that even the family enjoys it. Who doesn't want better things in life. Everyone, but the chase of the Marmon means that material goods must be shared in order for the Marmon to perpetuate itself.
Recently, I had a family lunch at a nice hotel in town. It cost more than $50 per pax and everyone was happy. It was kind of obvious, people enjoyed the free lunch more than the getting-together in the first place.
Even I enjoyed it, cause the spread was fantastic but Marmon reared its head because no one was gathering together even prior to this. And so the Marmon spread has to be shared in order for the Marmon soul food binge to continue.
But at what cost: it seems that some of friends and family members have sacrificed much of their time in order for themselves to be consumed as well. By consumption I meant, appealing to the values of the Marmon family, this means a staid, solid middle class family. They aimed almost to be statistic, just so that people would viewed them as attaining the Marmon dream.
I call this a nightmare because you have absolutely no control over your life. You are sending emails at 3am in the morning. You give birth to children just because the Marmon life requires the Marmon lineage to continue. The worship to Marmon is total because the wish not to cower to materialism is so weak that intrinsic pleasures are not fully enjoyed at all.
Struggles of not doing email at 3am in the morning because, it is really time to sleep, or giving birth to kids for the love of kids rather than pressure from family seems to be symptomatic of a Marmon person.
Yes, it is really a riled against the so-called "wholesome" values of a middle-class society. The family is not necessary a beacon of hope.
Think of this question: what if one day, you lost your job and can never recover it back -through not fault of your's, would your family and friends leave you and treat you any differently. And if as such, would still want to continue this life if it means living each day as a "groundhog" day.
As I have mentioned before I contracted a brain illness called pyshcosis where I can hear voices in my head. It has affected the way I perceived things and hence there has been adverse effects on the way I view work, living and my life.
I have slowed down a lot and viewed many things with ambivalence. I used to view success narrowly as having all the material goods in the world and now I cannot get excited about anything that smacks of even materialism.
I just started on a new position as a Financial Services Consultant in an insurance company and I am used to filling up personal data on my people's income and am beginning to realize how far behind I fallen behind other's.
People are getting promoted and earning a pay I used to see as a benchmark but yet I cannot seem to muster the energy to try to emulate them. I used to hate to fall behind others but now I see them almost with envy and with a sense of "better-than-thou" attitude.
Envy stems from the perks of having money in the pocket and able to enjoy the fruits of our labour. The "better-than-thou" attitude comes from the almost blind worship of the Marmon that even surprises me. I enjoy good things in life but it doesn't mean that I will go after chasing for it blindly. And the manner by which many chase over the proverbial pay raise and promotion only smacks of materialism that transformed into almost a blind chase for the Marmon.
This Marmon comes in several forms. It comes in forms of even your family. All families want better things in life but what becomes a worship is when you actually spend more time working and then compensating with material goods with your family. The best part is that even the family enjoys it. Who doesn't want better things in life. Everyone, but the chase of the Marmon means that material goods must be shared in order for the Marmon to perpetuate itself.
Recently, I had a family lunch at a nice hotel in town. It cost more than $50 per pax and everyone was happy. It was kind of obvious, people enjoyed the free lunch more than the getting-together in the first place.
Even I enjoyed it, cause the spread was fantastic but Marmon reared its head because no one was gathering together even prior to this. And so the Marmon spread has to be shared in order for the Marmon soul food binge to continue.
But at what cost: it seems that some of friends and family members have sacrificed much of their time in order for themselves to be consumed as well. By consumption I meant, appealing to the values of the Marmon family, this means a staid, solid middle class family. They aimed almost to be statistic, just so that people would viewed them as attaining the Marmon dream.
I call this a nightmare because you have absolutely no control over your life. You are sending emails at 3am in the morning. You give birth to children just because the Marmon life requires the Marmon lineage to continue. The worship to Marmon is total because the wish not to cower to materialism is so weak that intrinsic pleasures are not fully enjoyed at all.
Struggles of not doing email at 3am in the morning because, it is really time to sleep, or giving birth to kids for the love of kids rather than pressure from family seems to be symptomatic of a Marmon person.
Yes, it is really a riled against the so-called "wholesome" values of a middle-class society. The family is not necessary a beacon of hope.
Think of this question: what if one day, you lost your job and can never recover it back -through not fault of your's, would your family and friends leave you and treat you any differently. And if as such, would still want to continue this life if it means living each day as a "groundhog" day.
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