So I got to thinking. There's so much to
do. Brush your teeth or you get cavities or cancer or ... gingivitis. I hate brushing my teeth. I look in the mirror and my teeth look so yellow, it's ridiculous. Then I look at the whitening label on my toothpaste and scoff. I know it's supposed to be gradual, but I've been using whitening toothpaste for a long time with nothing to show for it. I'll admit that I only brush once a day, in the mornings. The dentist is always like, "brush yo' teeth three times a days, dawg!" It's a necessity, something you do for your own health. What bothers me is that we have to pay for such "bare necessities." food has to be purchased, and even if you grow your own food there are still tools to buy; plants don't really grow on schedule naturally. We have to pay for shelter, too, and most people live their entire lives paying off
shelter, something primary. Like Thoreau says, is it not the house that owns us? We also have to pay for clothing, and even then people take this to an extreme.
In short, life is a business. In a world where most of us have to pay to be born (in a clean hospital), life is a business. Our lives are spent paying someone for anything and everything we do. I, for example, must graduate in order to obtain a paying job in order to pay
them for things that are essential. Now, I'm not a communist nor do I know much about communism, so it's not like I'm making an argument for that. I'd just like to, for a moment, imagine a scenario where human tendencies do not skew our behavior. A world where people could all produce and obtain what they need, without greed taking over and hoarding anything. It sounds impossible--mostly because it really is--but it'd be nice to help our neighbor with a problem without "how will this make me money?" floating around our heads. Yes, capitalism encourages inventiveness and innovation, and all that is fine and dandy (how else do you think I'm writing this?) but my theory (if it can even be called that) only applies to the basic needs. Everybody is always bombarding us with how lack of care in any aspect could seriosuly hinder us (read: cancer), but only those who find themselves with the time (that they are not spending making money to pay for other necessities) and money get to
not have oral cancer or gum disease. It just isn't very fair. People have tried to regulate this help, and people hate it. Then they don't regulate it, and people hate it. Perhaps we are not approaching this correctly or something, but maybe we should start thinking about it. Now, I'm just a teenager on the Internet, but whatever. I just hope no one claims my ideas, even though someone has already published various books on the subject, probably.
Hi. I'm Angelica. I like Pokémon and complaining. I'm a youngster, but I freak out like a 42-year-old mother. This is just me worrying about getting into college.