I read somethin crazy, and it stuck with me because I am a bit "off." A theory that birth control pills are getting into the water supply and it is affecting all of us. While I do listen to the wacky stuff, it is most likely just the effect of more inclusion of women in society, feminazation and it might get a lot worse for us. I see a lot of guys runnin around behind their fat loud woman noddin their heads at whatever crap the beasts are spewin lol. Sorry if that sounds bad, I just see it a lot these days. Good luck ridin a bike during the day.. Hell hath no furry like a 250 lb soccer mom in a suv who needs to get to starbucks "like now"
Look Galois would have probably become one of the greatest mathematicians that ever lived-right up there with Gauss. However, you are no Galois. In fact, I would bet money that you would have trouble understanding a math lecture at your state school. Finally, name the richest man in the Roman Empire/Republic. Now name the greatest statesman (or just start naming statesmen), name some poets, and name some thinkers. Now do the same for Ancient Greece, and add mathematicians. No matter how much money you attain, it will never help you answer the existential questions, and no one will care about you after you are dead. Finally, the educational system is rigged so that people that want to learn can, but it does not encourage lazy asses to get anything out of College.
The existential questions cannot be answered. You can see it in everyday life that nobody believes them to be able to be answered. For example you have Men of God killing people. They wouldn't do that if they really believed in God. Or you have "pro-life" people killing people. Humans can be so illogical sometimes. Whenever I think of conspiracies I listen and think WHY? For example why would you want to manipulate the gold standard money supply and become the richest man alive if you are already the richest and become even richer.(rothschild). Then I figured it out, It's all a game. To that guy, making money is not his real reward, the game is his reward. Not the money, although it is factually his reward. Everything is a game. chasing money, chasing women, chasing thrills. Life is a game. Whenever people seem to undertake criminal behavoiour, it is a game to them. It's not supposely real but imaginery. We are all living the matrix and 1% of people know it, and 99% get suckered.
It just in our nature as humans to want more - that's what the ego is all about. Of course there are exceptions.
Labor Force Polarized as Middle-Skill Jobs Disappear: Report http://www.marketwatch.com/story/labor-force-polarized-as-middle-skill-jobs-vanish-2010-04-30
The average testosterone level in men has dropped about 100 points in the last 20 years or so. When under stress testosterone converts to estrogen. Most 59 year old men have more estrogen than 50 year old women. This is actually very easy to fix but DRs are fixated on handing out prozac and lipitor like candy and rarely even address the issue.
If true, it is not surprising to me. We are constantly evolving as a species. Modern culture no longer needs a man that can run fast, or have hulking muscles, or be aggressive against opposing males that seek to rape our women. Instead, it needs computer programmers that sit in front of a computer trading or programming at least eight hours a day. I think this is not solving anything. I don't think that mens problems are that their testosterone levels are too low for the same reason that maybe you think it is a problem. Men excel at logical aggressive thinking. The problem is that most boys can't sit still in classrooms for more than five minutes. To me, this is probably the single most important question in all of modern sociology: How do we reward boys in a classroom to grow up to be men, and at the same time steer them towards leading happy lives in adulthood where their brains are far more important than their muscle. It used to be that if boys screwed up in school, no big deal, just go work in the mine, or the textile company, or construction, etc. Today, boys are in grave danger because corporations want boys that are mostly girls with a penis, and frankly, I don't blame them because girls are waaaaaaay more adaptable to the current needs of corporations, imo.
I am sick of myself honestly. I am seriously thinking of begging a construction company to give me a job as a jack hammer operator even though I have never done it. I want to be out in the sun working with my hands and body. Nothing looks as stupid to me as some guy with all these muscles that he got in a gym. I want muscles because I work in a farm, or I build roads or bridges or whatever. I want to be sweating like a pig during work, go to happy hour with my buds, have a really cold beer, come home to my wife and fuck her brains out.
If that's what you really want then go for it. Unless you prefer to just talk about it until the feeling goes away...
I feel you. There is nothing as satisfying as ending your day and looking back over your shoulder to see tangible results. And feeling that you earned the sore muscles and sunburn. Trading is ok as a means to the end. But last weekend I took down a row of hedges with my sawzawl...then my neighbor came over with his john deer tractor and we pulled out 20 monster rootballs..then took all of them to the dump. That made me more fullfilled that the money I took out of GS puts last week by a mile. Hike..farm a garden...romp with my kids...dig holes...DIY EVERYTHING! Thats what I try to do to keep my sanity after 14 years of this crap. My goal Sunday is to be so sore from yardwork or play that I am looking forward to sitting in that chair for a few days. Not too trade though...just to recoup. Funny thing is I always trade better the first half of the week.