That is my brothers e-mail signature. And that is exactly what Marx is telling us. In our society we have been condition to 'work to live.' If we don't work we are lazy, if we don't want to success in this materialistic world we are losers, hippies, un-American because we are not pursuing the American dream, but if we would have learn otherwise, then it will be easier to accept, understand, and agree with Marx's plan "be a fisherman in the morning, a carpenter in the afternoon, a poet at night."
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where do we go if we want to live to play?
where do we go if we want to live to serve?
where do we go if we want to live to play and serve and be witness?
The quote "Do you live to work or work to live?" Every person have a different perspectives about this quote. For me, I think I live to work. In order to survive in this world, first of all, I have to live in order to work. Then, I have to work and to make money. Without money, I cannot buy myself a house to live in, food to eat, bills to pay. I think I am the kind of person that I would like to live in order to work. But, for some other people, they would work to live. I think it is because they want to work and to make their money and then used their money to pay bills and enjoy themselves like traveling to different places. Every person have a different ideas.
I live to work. And I enjoy it.
I don't want to be "fisherman in the morning, a carpenter in the afternoon, a poet at night," it is not something I have been socialized to believe. My belief is whatever career i work hard for is what gives me status in this society. A career becomes my identity and without a sense of self humans are nothing. We all have ascribes status and achieved status we create for ourselves. They become a bigger part of us because we worked hard from them. That's why for me it is more important to work to live.
the american dream is whatever we want it to be
we have indeed been socialized to want to "keep up with the jones'"
but what if there were no more jones'?
what if we all decided to make up our own minds and clear our own paths?
that would definately be difficult in world we live in today, but it certiainly can be done
we can only use how we were socialized to be this way or that as an excuse for so long
as individuals we need to find what makes us happy, do it, and be good people, if everyone did that, the consequence would be a country of happier people, which would make for a happier society
that would be totally american
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