Penny for your thoughts on a Dirty Crime
I once read a theory on being wealthy:
It went something along the lines of
"If one has a single penny they can not be considered wealthy"
But what say you; a person has 100 million pennies, would they then be considered wealthy?
Which is to say that to get to 100 million you would have to start with one penny right? What ever the number is which equates "wealth" in your mind you would need to proceed from a single penny.
So even if a subjects' idea of wealth was for example was 1 dollar, well you can not achive that goal with out that final penny, which oddly enough could also be considered the first one...
Would this then be the truest example of "the sum of its parts are greater then the whole" Or in juxtapose a weird parallel of "the same difference"?
If I was to take the facts of this mathmatical issue into another section of life or at least life on this planet..
At what point is a pile of dirt considered a moutian?
If I was to walk atop a moutian and scoop up a handfull of dirt does it cease to be a moutian? Does it then revert back to a mere pile of dirt?
Which is to say..what if it was not a hand full of dirt? What say you if it was one single granule of dirt? A pile or Moutian?
The obvious solution would be that its all a matter of perception:
That's how we get thru life, we adjust our perceptions to accomidate or lives to make our brains say "who gives a shit?" If a penny makes you wealthy or if a hand full of dirt makes a moutian...
In essence it boils down to "It's only a tiny amount of anything"
Since you are reading this I would think that you might to agree that sometimes the smallest things in the world do matter...since you just like me were at one point no bigger than a speck of dirt and maybe just for a minute nothing in the world could compare to how much you were worth.
So I guess the crime thats being committed here would be that we dont take the time to think about what it took for something to become something...
Which I think this is sad... because before we know it,
We all will be nothing more than a pile of dirt with people stepping over us like a tailside penny...
Enjoy
All Hallows Eve everyone...
posted by DaGince @ 8:09 AM
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While I have no hopes of beating that last comment (deep, isn't it?), I was just reading a Tom Petty interview where he discussed that very topic. He's not the most articulate man ever to walk the Earth, but here ya go anyway...
"we're in a place today where we want -- you know, businesses, they want all the money they can get, like every single penny. And they have guys that sit at computers and it shows them where every single penny is. And the objective is to make enough points with "The Board," whoever that is, which is above your head. And that's like getting all the pennies.Early Petty and the Heartbreakers
And this kind of thinking has infiltrated every aspect of life now. And that's affecting all of us. Culture is a really strong thing. It will affect everything. Even the president, even the kings, they're all affected by People magazine man. Like, they see -- you know, they read -- it's all -- we can't hide from culture. So, you know, I'm longing for -- like The Last DJ was a guy who went, "Yeah, I know you make more money by playing them off the playlist, but I don't want to do that. I think that I want to do it this way." Or like, you know, in the fashion industry when you see people -- yeah, let's pick on the fashion industry for a minute.
Like, if you dress up very young girls, like nine, ten-year-old girls to look sexy, you may sell more shampoo or whatever it is you're selling, you know, but they remove the human from that chain that goes, "oh, no, I don't think this is a good idea, because it might be contributing to the great proliferation of child molestation in America." Maybe. And just because it may contribute to hurting a kid, I'm not going to do it. But if it just comes down the line from somebody you've never met that you work for, you've never seen, you're never gonna see, "hey, that's how we make the most money. And that's what we do." And then people go, "Well, I get off at 6:00. Hey, it ain't me." And so we get caught up in this circle of, "Well, it ain't me." Well, who is it? So at some point, you've got to go, "Well, I'm sorry, but I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to hurt anybody for money."
Love the Jack-o-Lantern =)
You couldn’t be more right. People don’t pay attention to the little things. Yet, all those little things amount to something great. Everything affects everything. Pile on the dirt.
Yum.
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