The reasons people commit crimes that will land them in jail, or get into trouble that will result in execution, stem from insatiability and lack of means.This passage states the obvious, so a lot of us might pass over it. However, we could stop to ask ourselves: What leads to insatiable desires?
~ a passage from The Book of Leadership and Strategy by Thomas Cleary ~
On the individual level, one readily apparent reason is that most people are selfish...to one degree or another. We want what we want when we want it. When circumstances seem to thwart us, we try to figure out ways to circumvent them and many of these ways involve manipulation and connivance.
On a societal level, we have created a world of crass inequalities. Those who have tend to flaunt their largess in front of those who have not. Even worse, the media, entertainment and political industries constantly feed us the line that we should want more than we have and that successful people go out to get what they want because they somehow deserve it.
Since most of us want to feel deserving, we get brainwashed into playing the game. It's only when the have nots figure out that the rules are stacked against them that some decide to screw the rules altogether.
To read the introduction to this ongoing series, go here.
The people who say "I deserve it," are often the ones who also say "it's not fair." News flash: they don't and it's not.
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