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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Awesome article David. I can see the fire in your article, and I am with you on this whole heartedly. The human brain these days have been so accustomed to the predefined nature of life, that if someone tries to break free, and follow a different path, it creates ripples everywhere.
We, young entrepreneurs need to combat this, and make a difference in this world. No matter what, we will achieve our dreams…. Hope you all can hear me…. Cheers!
Reading this article, I am thinking of the poem I read in my academics… “The road less travelled….”.
Thanks Sharat! Yes, there is a lot of fire in this article. I’m going to need all the fire and energy I can muster to take on the world — to ignite as many entrepreneur’s minds as I can!
David, you are already on course buddy. Every morning first thing I do is check up the latest article posted in Mindpetals, so that I get into the groove…..All I can say is Mindpetals really makes my day…. everyday…. day after day…. Cheers!
Amen to that.
As an educator against the “traditional views” -I get a lot of resistance from my students. In the rare event that I do get them to open their minds the parents are another barrier.
They’ve all been brain-washed that it’s difficult for me to help.
I’m definitely making my students read this.
Wow, thank you Sharat — I’m honored!
Hoo, keep on being the teacher that you are. We need people like you! Thanks for sharing this article with your students — that makes me happy