This?? It was kind of profound for me. Like, ALL of it. This was so well written and all I can say in response is that the only way we'll truly achieve freedom is to free our minds. I guess it's the only way we can save ourselves from the outer world.
Thank you for debunking the myth about what's free in life and giving us a hard dose of reality. I lament that the wrong value is placed on certain things in life because of the monetary value attached to them, and because money is what we need in order to survive. As you wrote, access to many of those nice things in life isn't free at all. I also think that certain "free" things are free or cheap because a big population of "invisible people" have served as slaves or cheap labor thousands of miles away. Making the ultimate choice of what deserves our time and effort is indeed free but requires hard sacrifices--and possibly a shakeup of our worldview and paradigm.
You know what leapt to mind when I read this was the cobalt coming out of the DRC, taken out of the ground by children. We have no appreciation of who pays when we play. Thanks, Louisa.
Thanks for the reminder. I just looked it up and it really breaks my heart. Similarly, many poor folks in China and India take the eletronic trash from us and break it down risking being poisoned. The list goes on.
This?? It was kind of profound for me. Like, ALL of it. This was so well written and all I can say in response is that the only way we'll truly achieve freedom is to free our minds. I guess it's the only way we can save ourselves from the outer world.
That's high praise coming from you, Ms. Kristi/ Many thanks indeed.
Thank you for debunking the myth about what's free in life and giving us a hard dose of reality. I lament that the wrong value is placed on certain things in life because of the monetary value attached to them, and because money is what we need in order to survive. As you wrote, access to many of those nice things in life isn't free at all. I also think that certain "free" things are free or cheap because a big population of "invisible people" have served as slaves or cheap labor thousands of miles away. Making the ultimate choice of what deserves our time and effort is indeed free but requires hard sacrifices--and possibly a shakeup of our worldview and paradigm.
You know what leapt to mind when I read this was the cobalt coming out of the DRC, taken out of the ground by children. We have no appreciation of who pays when we play. Thanks, Louisa.
Thanks for the reminder. I just looked it up and it really breaks my heart. Similarly, many poor folks in China and India take the eletronic trash from us and break it down risking being poisoned. The list goes on.