Is existence a prison?

[Unknown Poster]

@The Grendel this reminds me of why I stopped watching TV. I realized it was hindering my progress towards complete mental, physical, and spiritual growth.
One thing is we got to realize what makes us unique. Our strengths, our weaknesses.

So that's why I retreated to art, music, and culture...things that were rich and still reminded me of the greatness of the human existence. Even though society can be a drag, and collective groups can bring us ire, they also have good contributions that can help individuals attain their goals of enlightenment.

I mean, that's what I'm lookking for, enlightenment.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Most def is a prison. Since birth we are socialized to be workers. Most people can't function without somebody telling them what to do

This.

For most people that's their TV Daddy.

 

[EndDomination]

A prison with an incredible amount of space.
The poorer you are, the less space you have.

 

[Neuromancer]

Thier is NOTHING liberating about art...music and culture...

If you are struggling to earn a living off of it.....

Because ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL owns your INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY therefore causing you to compromise your Creative Freedom

This is debatable. I think If you're creating for yourself, it can be. The point of that is self fulfillment.

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

AS much as I agree with you, we have to let the essence of the art, music and culture guide us to a higher path through wisdom, knowledge, and understanding instead of letting it become hallow and soulles through capitalism. Which corrputs everyrthing.

You can't truly own art. Only the artists and true creators of it can boast their accomplishments.

Corproate cac smucks like Lyor will never be truly down in this culture. Cause they don't have the soul in them.

only in a perfect world breh..

And Who is the Gatekeepers of this culture to prevent someone from Lyor from being down??

It surely ain't me..nor you....

Cause we don't own HIP HOP...

It's a Product...not a Culture

And according to Jam Master Jay (rip)..DMX....JaRule...Jay Z...Irv Gotti...Nore..Warren G....on up to Young Thug and Tee Grizzley and countless others who WORKED for him ..he is down because he SIGNS THE CHECKS..

commerce >>> culture

Hip Hop stop being a Culture when it left the parks in 79....and they put a retail barcode on the Sugarhill Gang's first single...

I'm in my 40s dude I can validate this

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

This is debatable. I think If you're creating for yourself, it can be. The point of that is self fulfillment.

Okay I can agree to that..

From an escapist hobby standpoint..

But all that becomes NULL AND VOID once it becomes your JOB...

Like SEX...

it's great when it's with no ties or transaction...just a bonding of bodies..

But if you gotta Sell Yo azz....or Buy Puzzy..

It's not liberating at all

 

[Neuromancer]

Okay I can agree to that..

From an escapist hobby standpoint..

But all that becomes NULL AND VOID once it becomes your JOB...

Then don't let it become a job.

 

[Emoryal]

Yep. Dudes in here talking about society
EXISTENCE itself is a prison. As a human being you're nothing more than a complex natural made machine.
You're coded to react a certain way to certain stimuli and then breed. You have no free will or original thought that wasn't implanted in you by your genetics and or environment. And it's impossible to escape it if existence is absolute. A higher consciousness might be able to escape it. but even then that is just a theory.

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

Then don't let it become a job.

so it's a Crime for a person to want to make a Career or be compensated for something that they LOVE DOING??


I don't think you understand the paradox that many artists face because they love doing what they do and they should be able to make a living off of it and own Thier art..

But the Capitilisim system we are involved in tries to suppress that

That's why i consult artists on how to empower themselves by learning the principles of Capitalism...

 

[moniemane]

Having a spritual foundation fights that feeling of imprisonment or hamster wheel status .reading the scriptures daily give me a fufillment even hobbies cant fulfill.even tho im out the game for a moment....knocking on doors as a jw gave me that peace because im focused on the scriptures present and future. Blessings to come.this worlds attitude is a rat race really for the common man .stressfull and negative pressure filled .hmmmm 3 more months i should be reinstated.

 

[Neuromancer]

so it's a Crime for a person to want to make a Career or be compensated for something that they LOVE DOING??


I don't think you understand the paradox that many artists face because they love doing what they do and they should be able to make a living off of it and own Thier art..

But the Capitilisim system we are involved in tries to suppress that

That's why i consult artists on how to empower themselves by learning the principles of Capitalism...

Where in my statement did I say that it was a crime? People can do whatever they feel with their art. That's what I do. I've published but ultimately I just want my work to exist. That's all. If you want to do this and make a living off of it, that's on you.

 

[Neuromancer]

Mind you @The HONORABLE SKJ I do think if you create something and seek to live off of that thing then yes you should be. However, I personally don't think this reality is more than one of perdition.

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

Mind you @The HONORABLE SKJ I do think if you create something and seek to live off of that thing then yes you should be. However, I personally don't think this reality is more than one of perdition.

True indeed...it was unfortunately was for me

 

[Cel 510 kid ados forever]

And drugs..

And money

 

[SmokyQuartz]

The ancient Egyptians studied death above all else even tho they were on top of the world cause they knew this reality (spiritual and physical) is fundamentally flawed. The only goal i have now is to master the two polarities (spiritual and physical) to get out this mothafukka for good