time.

This Sunday, I went with by boy josh to see In Time, as a bro date. You know, two grown ass men going to the movies on a Sunday is, to some people, weird. Anyways, the movie got me thinking about time, and its use as currency now, and how it is valued. We aren't really that far off from the premise of the movie- and no, I'm not going to give it away. But seriously, its creepy. We work for, and pay each other with currency. What you buy directly reflects what you make; some people make $15 per hour, and struggle, where as some make hundreds per HR and write your checks.

Now this is very capitalistic, and I know its not all like this, But what makes my time less valuable than say, bill gates? Opportunity. And there is a cost associated with opportunity, and it can get expensive. In human life, white, black, brown, yellow, whatever, we are all equal humans. But because of currency, and greed, time has been monetized (sp?) To help the advancement of some, and the oppression of others. Send me back a few hundred years or more, i'd be rich by standards; I'm a large, physical young man, who could take what he wanted, where currency was earned by alpha males in battle. Opportunity costs money. Today, gladiators do battle on wall street with their minds as business owners,leading mini platoons in the finance war, for their claim to a piece of the pie.

That's why, I see Justin timberlake's character in time similar to Tyler Durden in fight club; a rebel on a mission to break society. I'm all about the rules- and I'm about making money. But when some people have to be stepped on for a few to be infinitely rich, that's wrong. Banks and financial institutions run this country, and past leaders of the free world have warned us against this concept: banks being too big to fail. To them, time is money. If you hold up time, you stop their income flow. Stop their income flow, and watch inflation happen. With inflation, comes falsified value increases, and when the bubble pops, we end up where we're at now. I don't feel as extreme as those from say fight club, or in time, but I see parallels in my outlook on the way we have become dependent on time sensitive tasks, and earning capabilities. Tyler Durden in fight club made soap from liposuction fat deposits, and sold it back to the very people getting these procedures. It's a sense of anarchy; a sense that we as people have to rebel a bit, and continue to fight time. So giving the public a bit of their own medicine is comical, and much needed some times. *cue Tyler Durden speech- This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time. *

You'll probably find me referencing fight club quite often, as it's by far my favorite movie of all time. I just connect with the idea of the movie; even though I struggle to implicate those thought processes into my own life. But what happens when we as people become nothing more than a time sensitive piece in a larger cog of financial success for the powers that be? Damn, that's deep as hell. But we go with the flow of society. Patterns show themselves that human life has a price on it, and a financial institution buys and sells the idea of human life as a commodity. It may not be on the stock market, but human life is only as valuable as the market will bear; making population inflation resulting in the same deflation of value when the mint prints fresh new $100 bills. Too many in circulation.

The balance of power has been thrown off, and the end result is more time. People feel they only have this lifetime to do everything they want. True; but some people take that scenario to extremes. This causes the rich to get rich, (enjoy their life more) and the poor to get poorer (causing crime rates to rise, and poverty to skyrocket.) Why are so many people unemployed? because businesses can cut people, and have one person do two employees jobs now, for fear of losing heir job. And they'll do it for less an hour as well. See the pattern? But we can't regulate a standard salary, I agree, that's not the american way. But, there has to be some sort of medium. I know it's out there, I just haven't completely got my head around how to start Project Mayhem yet.....