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Time and Attention Are Your Super Powers

Ray Katz
5 min readDec 8, 2023

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You aren’t a slave and you can overcome many of the forces that are abusing you.

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Most of us have been born into this world feeling powerless. We start out completely dependent on our parents to simply survive. And then, we go out into the world and find systems and rules designed to control us. We spend most of our lives trying to be of use to other people — “powerful” people — to earn money and buy what we need to live.

In the West, we call this life of servitude “freedom” claiming we have choices and an opportunity to earn money, and then, to waste the lives of other people, using them to make us richer. In other places, you simply obey the boss because he’s got lots of enforcers with guns.

One young woman on social media has been ridiculed for noting this situation and crying about it. Those who ridicule her are insane. The woman is completely rational and has retained her humanity despite living on a planet full of gaslighters who are even fooling themselves.

Why, indeed, do we spend our lives — I’d say waste our lives — working for and attending to the desires of lazy, foolish, greedy and self-centered fools? Who’s idea was that? And can’t we do better?

So, How Have We Been Wasting Our Lives?

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Ray Katz
Ray Katz

Written by Ray Katz

Internet pioneer. But I’m most interested in stabilizing the Earth’s climate and promoting our common humanity. WeAreSaners.org

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