In a kayak off the Devon coast I witnessed the kind of entitled mindlessness that has ravaged society, and our planet, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
I’ve heard things like this are the reason why Charlie Sheen went off the deep end. Highest paid television actor in history at the time and it wasn’t enough. Had to do crazy drugs, had to have wild promiscuous sex, had to do anything to feel alive.
I look back on the times when I was poor and I felt more actively engaged in life than now when I am not rich but not poor.
It almost makes me want to sell everything I have and throw it all away and go start over somewhere else just to see what life is like again.
Absolutely totally tangent to this but recently I have been meeting people who are struggling financially, which makes sense you know the world’s pretty fucked right now, but these people have one trait in common that I don’t understand.
That trait is being unwilling to work.
The people that I’m talking about are facing issues of potentially losing their apartments, going hungry without the beneficence of girlfriends and boyfriends and family members feeding them, living right on the razors edge of homelessness, and they refuse to work.
And I really don’t get it.
These people are a mix from late 20s to early 40s, and they are miserable, and all they would have to do to not experience the misery they are experiencing would be to get any minimum wage job and work it 30 ish hours a week.
I’ve heard things like this are the reason why Charlie Sheen went off the deep end. Highest paid television actor in history at the time and it wasn’t enough. Had to do crazy drugs, had to have wild promiscuous sex, had to do anything to feel alive.
I look back on the times when I was poor and I felt more actively engaged in life than now when I am not rich but not poor.
It almost makes me want to sell everything I have and throw it all away and go start over somewhere else just to see what life is like again.
It’s the struggle to rebuild, it gives you meaning and motivation to continue
I just want to play Minecraft for the first time again too.
Absolutely totally tangent to this but recently I have been meeting people who are struggling financially, which makes sense you know the world’s pretty fucked right now, but these people have one trait in common that I don’t understand.
That trait is being unwilling to work.
The people that I’m talking about are facing issues of potentially losing their apartments, going hungry without the beneficence of girlfriends and boyfriends and family members feeding them, living right on the razors edge of homelessness, and they refuse to work.
And I really don’t get it.
These people are a mix from late 20s to early 40s, and they are miserable, and all they would have to do to not experience the misery they are experiencing would be to get any minimum wage job and work it 30 ish hours a week.
And they won’t do it. And I don’t know why.