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It’s all been done before

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Philip Dodson blog

Often in today’s world we hear the words ‘it’s all been done before’ or ‘you can’t be unique anymore’ or the common ‘that’s the way it’s always been’.

Then we have to ask ourselves, what is the point of what we do everyday then? Why do we bother? Let’s all surrender to a banal and pointless life now.

If we have now run out of new ideas or a different imagination, then what is the future for humanity? Bleak, in all honesty, if that is the case.

Those phrases I put at the top of the page is what the system propagates, it is what we are told, you ‘can’t’. We are taught not to like change and to embrace routine, it’s easier to create compliance that way.

Well we need to start telling ourselves ‘can’ or ‘imagine’.

Imagination has been dulled to almost non-existence by the industrialised world’s brainwashing.

We need to all try to re-engage with our imaginations, let our minds run wild, think outside of the lines, have crazy thoughts, dream of a different world, dream of freedom in our minds and our lives.

Let’s break the rules, challenge the status quo, let’s rebel together, not to create lawlessness, but to create something new.

The world needs imaginative and creative thinkers to think up what hasn’t already been done, otherwise it’s a life of servitude and with very little meaning.

Imagination is a wonderful gift, that we all need to use more.

What is work for?

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Philip Dodson Blog

I watched a TED by Seth Godin asking that very same question, only he was asking ‘what is school for?’ That got me thinking, what is work for?

This is perhaps a good thing to write about on the eve of going back to work for another week. Do we ever stop to ask that question? What is work for?

For most, it is simply an activity that they do in order to earn money. Then that money is used to buy stuff. Most of us have been prepared to do exactly that for the rest of our adult lives by school.

We have been trained to comply and be good workers in the mechanised, sanitised and industrial world.

We’ve been sold the dream that if we work hard, we’ll get more money, we’ll be able to get a bigger house, which we can use the bigger income, to fill with more worthless trinkets.

Most of those trinkets lose their shine and end up in a skip. We are encouraged to constantly replace our trinkets, with updated more ‘fashionable’ items, even if the trinkets are still perfectly usable.

So work is for the benefit, mainly, of the owners of work and not us. We are merely fodder to keep the system working.

Surely there is something more meaningful for human kind to be doing each day than simply working to consume stuff that benefits just a few.

Surely it is better to be creating something that enhances human kind? Surely it is better to be caring for one another? Surely it is better to be creating our own stuff and not simply working to line the pockets of a few.

Anyone for work? or perhaps we’d all be better off working in collaboration in communities creating our own individual stuff to share with each other?