There are two types of people in this world; the value-producer & the value-destroyer.
The value-producer is one who produces more for society than he/she takes out of it;
whereas the value-destroyer is one whoproduces less than he takes out. He lives off
the value-producer. He is a parasite!

We are taught that we need advice and help from the government, from bureaucrats.
We are taught to depend on our teachers/professors. Basically we are taught to
depend, full stop.

We develop the desire for external “authorities” to take over the thinking tasks
of our mind. Our wish is to be automatically and effortlessly guided to knowledge
and through life by external forces. But no effortless guide exists. No outside
force can take over and do what the mind and the individual must do for him/herself.

Because of this dependence we shy away from100%-self-responsibility. We give up
at running our own lives and instead look for advice from outside of us. The
value-destroyers become our guide/advisors/external authority.

This is the only way the parasite/value-destroyer can survive. He has to live
off the value-producer. If we believe we need these people,

then we are psychologically tied to them. They can give us bogus guidance.
You see we have been taught to think this way. We never learn self-guidance.
We cannot do this. Our thinking process has been corrupted.

Who gets the money and the glamour...but does not really work that hard?
Certainly not the ordinary working person. He or she works very hard and
barely gets by. The rich and powerful “leaders” did not work their whole lives
to make someone else happy! The majority of people worked their whole lives to
make the leaders happy. But leaders of the cushy Establishment are ok!

Do you remember the bad student during school days? The one who never did
his homework! He always had a lot of excuses didn't he? Sister cried all
night so he could not work. Mum sent him shopping and it was too late. Jo
borrowed his book and had not returned it. He ran out of ink, paper, whatever.

The particular excuse was not important. There was one common denominator.
They were excuses. What other common denominator was there? It was never his
fault. It was always someone else's fault. He was not prepared to take on
100%-total-self-responsibility for his life. Someone else was always responsible.
Someone else would later become responsible for his life.

What about the good student? He never had excuses did he? He got down and did
the work. Like the best advertisement I've seen - JUST DO IT. He did not build
any rationalisations in his mind to justify his laziness. That is what the bad
student did. He was lazy and he used dishonesty to rationalise his laziness.
Those rationalisations became part of his belief-system.

Some years ago I was metaphorically like that bad student with my life. I was shy,
lacked confidence, had no friends, could not communicate with people, was lazy,
dishonest with myself and others, smoked a lot, drank a lot, had a bad marriage,
lacked self-esteem, was unhappy, did not like life, did not care much for myself
either. One of the reasons I studied Mathematics was to be able to hide from people;
who wants to know a crazy mathematician. I had my rationalisations for my position
in life. My excuses. Someone else was always responsible. I was never to blame.
Blamed mum for being shy, she was. Blamed dad for whatever, he was dominating.
Blamed the wife for my bad marriage. Blamed the bank manager for the lack of growth
in my business.

I was not prepared to accept 100%-total-self-responsibility for my life, my thoughts,
and my actions. If I was not responsible that meant someone else was. That way I
was off the hook.

That sure was an easy way out!

                                                                                                        To be continued.