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by Gustavo Tanaka
October 15, 2015
from
Medium Website
We still haven’t realized of something
extraordinary that is happening.
A few months ago, I freed myself from society, I’ve released myself
from attachments I had and fear that locked me to the system. And
since then, I started seeing the world from a different perspective.
The perspective that everything is changing and most of us have not
even realized that.
Why is the world changing?
In this post I’ll list the reasons that
take me to believe this.
1 - No one can
stand the employment model anymore
Each one is reaching its own limit. People that work in big
corporations can’t handle their jobs. The lack of purpose starts to
knock the door of each one as a desperate scream coming from the
heart.
People want to escape. They want to leave everything behind.
Look how many people trying to become
entrepreneurs, how many people going on sabbaticals, how many people
depressed in their jobs, how many people in burnout.
2 - The
entrepreneurship model is also changing
A few years ago, with the explosion of the startups, thousands of
entrepreneurs, ran to their garages to create their billion dollar
ideas. The glory was to get funded by an investor. Investor’s money
in hand was just like winning the World Cup.
But what happens after you get funded?
You become an employee again. You have people that are not aligned
with your dream, that don’t give a damn to the purpose and
everything turns into money. The financial return starts to be the
main driver.
Many people are suffering with this. Brilliant startups start to
fall because the model of chasing money never ends.
We need a new model of entrepreneurship.
And there is already many good people doing this...
3 - The rise
of collaboration
Many people have already realized that makes no sense to go alone.
Many people awake to this crazy mentality of "going on your own".
Stop, take a step back and think...
Isn’t it an absurd, we, 7 billion people
living in the same planet get so separated from each other? What
sense does it make, you and the thousands (or millions) of people
living in the same city turn your back to each other? Every time I
get myself thinking on that, I get even kind of depressed.
But fortunately, things are changing. All the movements of sharing
and collaborative economy are pointing towards this direction. The
rise of collaboration, sharing, helping, giving hands, getting
united.
It is beautiful. It makes tears come from my eyes.
4 - We are
finally starting to understand what the internet is
Internet is an incredibly spectacular thing
and only now, after so many years we are understanding it’s power.
With internet, the world opens, the
barriers fall, separation ends, union starts, collaboration
explodes, help emerges. Some nations made revolution with the
internet, such as the Arab Spring. In Brazil we are just starting to
use better this magnificent tool.
Internet is taking down mass control. There is no more television,
no more few newspapers showing the news they want us to read. You
can go after whatever you want, you relate to whoever you want. You
can explore whatever you want, whenever you want.
With internet, the small starts to get a voice. The anonymous become
known. The world gets united. And the system may fall.
5 - The fall
of exaggerated consumption
For many years, we have been manipulated, stimulated to consume as
maniacs.
To buy everything that was launched in
the market. To have the newest car, the latest iphone, the best
brands, lots of clothes, lots of shoes, lots of lots, lots of
everything.
But many people have already understood that it makes no sense at
all. Movements such as the lowsumerism, slow life, slow food,
start to show us that we have organized ourselves in the most absurd
possible way.
Each time less people using cars, less people buying a lot, each
time more people trading clothes, donating, buying old things,
sharing goods, sharing cars, apartments, offices.
We need nothing of what they told us we needed.
And this consciousness can break any corporation that depends on the
exaggerated consumption.
6 - Healthy
and organic eating
We were so crazy that we accepted
eating any kind of garbage.
It only needed to taste good in the
mouth, that was ok. We were so disconnected, that the guys started
to add poison in our food and we didn’t say anything.
But then some guys started to wake up and give strength to movements
of
healthy eating and organic consumption.
And this is going to be huge.
But what does it has to be with economy and work? It has everything!
The production of food is the basis of our society. Food industry is
one of the most important of the world. If consciousness change,
our eating habits also change, and consumption changes, and then the
big corporations must follow these changes.
The small farmer is starting to have strength again. Also people who
are planting their own food.
And that changes the whole economy.
7 - The
awakening of spirituality
Spirituality for many years was a thing
of the esoteric people. Of those weird people from
mysticism.
But fortunately, this is also changing. We got to the limit of our
rationality. We could see that only with the rational mind we cannot
understand everything that happens here. There is something more
happening and I know you want to understand.
You want to understand how things work in here.
How life operates, what happens after
death, what is this energy thing that people talk so much, what is
quantum physics, how can thoughts become things and create our
reality, what are coincidences and synchronicities, why meditation
works, how is it possible to cure with the hands and what about
these alternative therapies that medicine does not approve, but
work?
Companies are promoting meditation to their employees. Schools
teaching meditation to kids.
8 - Unschooling
movements
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Who created this teaching model?
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Who chose the classes you have
to take?
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Who chose the lessons we learn
in history classes?
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Why didn’t they teach us the
truth about other ancient civilizations?
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Why should the kids obey rules?
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Why should they watch everything
in silence?
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Why should they wear uniform?
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Take a test to prove that you
learned?
We created a
model that forms followers of the system.
That prepare people to be ordinary human beings.
But fortunately there are many people working to change that.
Movements like
unschooling, hackschooling, homeschooling.
Maybe you have never thought of this and you are chocked with the
points I’m listing here.
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But all these things are happening.
Silently, people are awakening and
realizing how craziness it is to live in this society. Look at all
these movements and try to thing everything is normal.
I don’t think it is.
There is something extraordinary happening...
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