Before 1800, people in the world were living such a simple life in which no-one was interested in money as the center of their life. After 1800, the world began a series of changes in people’s lifestyle and people’s way of thinking that made the world we know today, which is totally different from what the Renaissance wanted it to mean.
Between the 18th and the 19th century, in the United Kingdom an important part of the world history that we know today as the Industrial Revolution began. It brought with it a set of new mechanical machines that were replacing man’s handwork not only on the farms, but in the cities and financial districts. Before the Industrial Revolution, you could see simple families having simple lives, going together to the vineyards to collect the grapes and make the wine, and getting simple wages just for food. After that, you could see only one man making a whole family work and those families, which in the past were doing jobs for food, now were extremely hungry and looking at how their lives were being destroyed; here came the pain in the heart.
During the 19th century, a couple of inventors began to make more and more sophisticated tools that made people’s life even easier. One inventor was in the patent office, and an hour later another one went to patent a new invention, which was good. The problem was that there was no control in the way they exposed their inventions to the public. It was an era recognized because a little group of people just wanted more and more huge quantities of money or fame, without thinking about the poor people, who at the end were the affected part of the game; here came the pain in the head.
After 1940, the world began to be habitable again, meaning that people were put into their jobs again. They found balanced ways to allow people and machines to work together. But after 1990, people forgot the ideals and began again to be more involved with money. Money, again, became the center of the world. New machines were created to make people’s work faster instead of easier. That means, that if in 1980 you used to prepare 80 informs at the office, nowadays your boss wants you to prepare 800. To this, add the strict environment created by the business aura: just make money for me and I don’t give a fuck about you. That’s a pain in the butt! People need their jobs because from them they can get their money, and they need that money to eat (the first necessity?) and keep their consumer addict lives. So, they work like dogs for nothing and go around the streets stressful and being unpleasant to happy people like me.
Stress is a pandemic we will never eradicate, unless people change their way of seeing the world. Nowadays many people look at the world as a valuable thing, which is totally false. How can I get rich from your ribs? A 100 dollar bill is just a piece of paper that, at any moment, I can rip if I want (logically I won’t), because it can buy a lot of smiles, but not an honest voice saying “hello” to you everyday.
Lugoskyk,
Nueva York, Lunes 2 de Octubre, 2006
