How do I convince dad not to throw me out of the house because I wont get any job where I'm ruled by authority?
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get any job where I'm ruled by authority?
Why are my parents so pissed off that I quit my easy job because of
philosophical despair over human nature
My dad is so pissed of that I quit one of the easiest and decent
paying jobs you can get especially in this economy, because I was
reading too much of Schopenhauer's pessimism about the cruelty of man,
nature and existence. The stupid will to survive that "just is" and
defies all reason. The selfish egoist sexual sadism of all nature and
man. How can I live in a world like that? Maybe if I had been educated
since childhood that thats the way the world is I could have accepted
it. But in school they taught us lies about good guys and bad guys
that I was the only fool stupid enough to believe.
My dad thinks I'm depressed because I have no friends or girlfriend.
But this is a philosophical existential depression not a personal
psychological one! I just can't move, get out of bed or live in this
world under such cruel conditions!
How do I convince dad not to throw me out of the house because I wont
get any job where I'm ruled by authority
I know that there is a libertarian argument that capitalism is the
natural sister of democracy. That the free market is true economic
liberty of personal responsibility, free will and voluntary choice.
And you have an uncle named John Galt who used to have to lick toilets
clean but then invented a autolicker and became a trillionaire. For
the moment lets just leave that theoretical argument to the side.
What is the reality? In the USA all workers are at-will. Which means
you can be fired for any reason whatsoever save race or sex. For
rooting for another sports team, for complaining about an abusive
employee, for doing your job too good, for listening to your manager,
for asking for a raise or a pay decrease. For any reason whatsoever.
So your boss has basically godlike omnipotent power over your life.
Since there is limited welfare, its not impossible to starve from
poverty so it literally is life and death. Without getting into a
theoretical debate about capitalism, on a personal level its hard for
me to just accept that some of the worst people in the world, the
alpha male wolves should have such arbitrary power over my life. When
you think that the lion's share of your time revolves around work, and
your job pays your bills for the offhours. Since we're all such
individualists, whats the solution for the individual. I guess theres
the claim that anyone can be an entrepreneur. But for a young guy
right out of college, what are the options really? Boss or death. I
don't know if I can endure hierarchy and authority. Perhaps a public
sector job would be better since then at least there is a system of
checks and balances between unions and management, so its more like a
constitutional monarchy. And in an indirect sense you are working for
yourself since you elect the government you work for. Technically you
can elect your boss out of office but its a rather tortuous process
and not reality. Most you can really do is write your congressman
complaining.
So I guess for me the question is both personal and philosophical.
They feed off each other. I can sort of predict the responses. Its the
boss' property so he can do whatever the hell he likes. And I should
just toughen up and take my punches. Democracy has been such a big
deal in my life politically and philosophically that I forgot to
examine democracy in my personal life. I think this was a big mistake
in college, because I took a pretty antagonistic view towards college
life, when in reality there is more democracy there through hall
councils, SA, and clubs than in the real world. Now college is over,
and there is very little democracy in the real world. It seems
individualism is valued over democracy. We are all lone atoms. There
is value to that. But on the other hand you deal with your neighbors
as atoms, not as a democratic body. Few people even know their local
government. I'm very political and have no idea. And the small town
Dem and Rep parties are surprisingly closed off, you would think they
would WANT more members. So I started off with a sort of Jeffersonian
democratic vision of the yeoman farmer breaking up the landed estates
and farming his own land ruling his own nation like the Atheninan
democrat or the New England Town meetings. With the values of a old
New England town. But as I searched for daily life democracy I became
more radical.
So I don't know what the solution is metaphysically or personally. Can
this world be made livable? Can I put up with a job? To get a job is
the ultimate affirmation of life. Its saying to the universe I'm
satisfied with the decades that have come before, and I'm willing to
work, fight and struggle to preserve whatever I already have. I'm not
sure if I'm ready to take that leap of faith and affirm my past life
for the future