Comments on: How to Change the World (Or…How to Occupy Yourself) http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/11/how-to-change-the-world-or-how-to-occupy-yourself/ Ideas for a World Out of Balance Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 By: Darth-dick http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/11/how-to-change-the-world-or-how-to-occupy-yourself/#comment-24761 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:38:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=4027#comment-24761 Go ahead and live in your dreams, for most people’s dreams are dead. They all died under the knife of this so called society. Your path may have been clear cut, but for most the path to freedom, wealth and joy is blocked by our inability for compassion and love for each other. Instead we are all focused on ourselves and green paper between our fingers. All we need is real love and understanding, which unfortunately we as a whole are quite lacking. Only a hand full of people seem to be real human beings to me, but maybe my view is skewered. But when I see people on the streets, all I can think about how people judge them so quickly as we all judge others. But this is a little different because of the dirt and grime on their physical beings, it makes it quite difficult to be look upon as a good man to a stranger with rags.

We all have to the ability to by-pass our nature, why aren’t we tapping into that ability? It seems the path to wealth, freedom, and joy is usually dependent on how well we fit into this society as people, not how hard we work as others work themselves to death and they still die somewhere underneath the bridge or in a cardboard box. The corruption of government also has a role in this, but that’s already been explained. You’ll probably never physically see most of those outcasts, never hear them or feel them, but they are out there. Rotting away along with their souls, becoming shells of their former selves. They are all over this world and they are growing ever so more, they are the poor. Our stepping stones that we keep pushing into the ground while pretending they don’t exist. Its rots me from the inside out, as only empathy can provide which can’t really compare to their struggle. Maybe if we all just join as one and work together (I mean actually work together!) we could achieve things beyond all our wildest dreams (Going to distant galaxies, figuring out a system without money, etc). But it seems we’ll all be dead before that happens.

]]> By: klaio http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/11/how-to-change-the-world-or-how-to-occupy-yourself/#comment-24677 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:59:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=4027#comment-24677 Jack — hatred is poison. It is the information equivalent of cancer. It really is.

Don’t consider this as advice. My advice is worth about as much as anyone else’s. Consider this as an attempt at first aid. Stop the hatred now, and purge yourself of the poison, while you have the chance and the choice.

]]> By: guest http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/11/how-to-change-the-world-or-how-to-occupy-yourself/#comment-24287 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:02:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=4027#comment-24287 This has made me finally realize…I have got to get the heck out of Albuquerque!

]]> By: MC1171611 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/11/how-to-change-the-world-or-how-to-occupy-yourself/#comment-24277 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:54:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=4027#comment-24277 I’m one of the SANE billions that thinks you need to get punched in the face.

]]> By: MC1171611 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/11/how-to-change-the-world-or-how-to-occupy-yourself/#comment-24276 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:45:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=4027#comment-24276 Let’s see, the government creates unhealthy, fully-dependent, ignorant masses, then unleashes them on society where they get in the way of productive humans, and then the government reacts to “public outcry” (perpetrated by the government-engineered morons) and further enslaves productive humanity.

Sounds like a recipe for 1917.

]]> By: MC1171611 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/11/how-to-change-the-world-or-how-to-occupy-yourself/#comment-24273 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:43:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=4027#comment-24273 Dude, you’re a moron. I spent the first three years of my marriage looking for a job, and wound up moving halfway across the country so I could better myself. I have no pity on whiners and Socialists (perfect picture of “democracy”: barely contained mob-rule) who are “demanding” things from Wall Street, and from the very government responsible for creating this mess.

I work hard and made a better life for myself and my family. We still struggle to get by, and live week to week, but I’m not walking around blaming others for my financial problems: I just work harder.

]]> By: schulwitz http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/11/how-to-change-the-world-or-how-to-occupy-yourself/#comment-24252 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:55:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=4027#comment-24252 The  “9 Skills Needed to Become a Super Connector” link is broken.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/23/9-skills-super-connector/

There, I just made the world, a little bit better.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/11/how-to-change-the-world-or-how-to-occupy-yourself/#comment-24245 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:59:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=4027#comment-24245 Hi, James. I don’t know the difference between the impact of one vote and one act, each of which is, seemingly to me, an act of faith that one or the other will remove anger. Both have a place and a time, a purpose and an effect.

Unless the comparison is that the vote is directed at changing the outside world and the act is directed at changing at a personal level, it seems what is in your head is what counts. The article emphasized anger at the world.

Next time you are angry at the world sing. Run a hard sprint. Punch a bag. Write your congressman a vituperative letter. Save the letter till tomorrow. Read it. Trash it. See if anger goes away.

]]> By: Bushman http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/11/how-to-change-the-world-or-how-to-occupy-yourself/#comment-24243 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:48:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=4027#comment-24243 I like your web-site. Times ahead will be very challenging for us all. The world has more debt than assets. And a collapse of the financial system is coming. Watch documentaries on youtube about Argentina and Cuba(after Soviet Collapse). Each Cuban lost 20 pounds in the 2 year period after their collapse.  Survival will be tough but the human spirit is amazing. Many Americans are soft and pampered. The mechanics, builders, farmers, and military men will have skills in demand for the times ahead. Suburban bankers not so much…. Anyway, keep the positive vibe.

]]> By: tormunkov http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/11/how-to-change-the-world-or-how-to-occupy-yourself/#comment-24198 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=4027#comment-24198 I agree with you Alx and want #1 also. 

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