A Viscous Cycle

                                                    I got this picture from google.
   
     In my previous post, I spoke about how mundane a capitalistic life can be. Everything, as we all already know, revolves around our ability to work and continue working to inject capital into our system. Keeping in mind that this system never ends and our leaders haven't ever told us what definite goal we're working towards, I feel it safe to assume that the process continues on forever. As the picture above almost graphically illustrates, we working class Americans are almost basically slaves to the dollar- to money that is now mostly just imaginary. We work so that we can buy so that we can consume so that we can keep on working, buying, and consuming until we die. This is not how mankind was meant to live! That is clearly apparent in (once again I am not bashing America, it's just a prime example here) America's mortality rate caused by coronary heart disease, which is known to be caused by the stress of everyday American life.

• "The 2008 overall rate of death attributable to cardiovascular disease (CVD) (International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, codes I00–I99) was 244.8 per 100 000. The rates were 287.2 per 100 000 for white males, 390.4 per 100 000 for black males, 200.5 per 100 000 for white females, and 277.4 per 100 000 for black females." (http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/125/1/e2.full)
• To me, this is a clear indication that something must change drastically before we stress ourselves to death!