Patric J. Dufficy: Dealers in Hope

A great majority of people are living day after day in a self-destructive mode.
What do I mean by self-destructive mode?
I imply that in general we are doing daily things with destruction properties. Those little things appear so harmless, we take them as normal, but they are eating us inside like a virus. What are those little viruses?
Complaining habits, negativity, blaming games, low self esteem, jealous thinking, gossiping, etc.
Yes, I’m talking about destructive behaviours state of mind, not physical destruction as drugs, alcohol, etc.

All those things, almost everybody do every day, brings us toward sadness and even depression.
Depression is one of the most diagnose sickness today.
We tend to say that there is more stress in our time than before…
Is this really true? I don’t think so!
Was it better to work in places with no safety system or health control?
Was it better to die from a simple flu?
Was it better to live with racism and slavery?
Was it better to depend on what you harvest to have something to eat?
Was it a better way of life to never see the rest of the world, never think to go to another continent or just visit another country?

Everything is simpler and faster today, so why are we so stressed?
“Faster” is the problem.
Faster means that you get what you want more quickly, but you are asked to deliver quickly too.
Employees are asked by their employers to deliver more and more work in lesser time than before. The more work load you can deal with, the more you are asked to do. It often brings us to do extra hours, and a great deal of professionals and office workers have an annual base salary and they are not remunerated for extra hours.
People work, work, work, doing whatever it takes to please their superiors and keep their job until they crack under the pressure.
Always increasing traffic jams brings even more tension before we even started our day of work.

There are fewer business owners today.
The greater part of the population is made of workers (employees), and because of this huge amount of people in need of a job, the employers have all the choice they want to deal with staff. This almost eliminated the “lifetime job” of the past generations.
Today, the average job lifespan is around four years. It’s an endless resumption.

Alexander Fraser Tytler (15 October 1747- 5 January 1813), Scottish lawyer, writer and professor have written:
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over a louse fiscal responsibility, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world’s great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: Bondage to spiritual faith, to great courage, to liberty, to abundance, to complacency, to apathy, to dependence, and back to bondage.”
Our civilization is between the apathy and dependence cycle and going back to bondage. We are talking of modern bondage, but it is still the loss of our liberty. To go back into bondage is the self-destruction of our society.

People are looking at any easy way to live a small and simple life, depending on governments when things start to go wrong. People don’t want to put any efforts anymore when things get tough.
We live in a society that do not want any great champions, where everyone must be equal, where we shouldn’t offend the minorities and must all have the same kind of car, of house, etc.
If someone has a luxury car or a big house, neighbours starts the gossip; “He must do something illegal!”

One big problem of this apathy is the medias, they lure you into a world of unnecessary
expenditure and false dreams of fake reality shows… I’ll discuss the medias subject another time, there too much to say on that!

What brings a society into bondage?
The lack a leadership. The lack of people who stand for the right things and are willing to fight for it.

Without anyone leading the way, people are falling into apathy and dependence. A society who wants everything without putting any efforts. A society without courage.
It doesn’t take a lot of courage to get up each morning to go to work and pray that we’ll still have our job tomorrow.
It doesn’t take any courage to finance an artificial success with a big house, big cars, big 3D TV and a big lifestyle going regularly to restaurants, cinema, travel, etc.
I have a hard time seeing any success in going on a cheap all-inclusive tropical vacation by financing it and paying it all year long.
I’m sorry if I’m offending some of you, but I’m just straightforward and always will be.

How to stop this virus?
First we got to wake up and realize what we are doing with our life isn’t bringing us anywhere but to a life wasted without any real meaning.
Also, anyone with character must stand up, inform people about the dark track we are heading to and lead those who want some changes to do what it takes to modify the course of events and get on a better path.

Thanks for reading, Patric J. Dufficy

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