It’s a War out There: Entrepreneurs vs. Robots

Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 11:07am by David Askaripour in Life

It’s sad to look back to history and think about young people like Alexander and Augustus who weren’t even past the age of 21 when they ruled such vast armies and conquered so much. Nowadays take a look at the average 21 year-old and compare that person to the likes of Augustus or Alexander — ha, you can’t! Incomparable.

We are breeding robots. Am I the only one that sees what’s going on? No longer are we pushing our youth to go off into the world and do something great with themselves. No longer are we telling our children that they can do anything that they want in life. No longer are we instilling ambition and confidence in our youth.

Instead, we are pushing them into the line that society tells us to adhere to and to obey. You know what line I am speaking of.

Go to school.
Listen to every word that your teacher tells you. God forbid you disagree with them!
Get perfect straight A’s.
Get into a top college.
Listen to all your professors.
Allow them to train you to be obedient workers.
Work for your employer for 40 years.
Make sure not to disrupt the chain of command.
Keep your mouth shut and don’t express your true ideas.
Retire.
Allow the government to (try) take care of you.
Die.

How have we allowed ourselves to fall into such a rut? Into such a robotic, safe, and boring life? Don’t get me wrong, if you want to get a job and work for someone for 40 years of your life — then do it! If that’s what makes you happy.

But it’s disgusting to see how HARD we as a society are pushing that lifestyle for EVERYONE to live by. It’s like, we have abandoned the notion of giving our youth options in life. We are so focused on pushing this one ideal of being obedient and being “average.”

This is the robot age. But we young and unruly entrepreneurs are combating and rebelling against this agenda. We are organizing more than ever. We are defying the norms. We are stepping outside of their rules and disrupting the hell out of their backwater philosophy.

For all of you out there who quit your 9-5 to push forward with your ideas, who started a business in college and continued to push forward with it after graduating, who said “sorry mom and dad but I’m starting a business,” who defied your professors when they told you that getting a job is the only way to go, who continue to put everything on the line in order to achieve something great…. I salute you!

You are the brave Trojans going into battle everyday to protect our society from being overrun by the naysayers, the bureaucrats, and all the people out there so emphatically pushing this agenda to keep the world in line with the status quo and normalcy. Fight on, soldiers!

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