Everyone is Doing Physical Labor

People have only their bodies, right? That’s what most people erroneously think. It’s of course the truth when they’re young, as they’re discovering the world with all that they came into it with. However, as one grows older, the error is in the education our parents and our school system give us. But, who can blame them? They know no better than what the generation before them taught them.

If you observe society on any day of the week and at any time, you’ll see people using their bodies in all manner of way. And basically, that’s all you’ll see. People using their bodies to serve other people, so that they can in turn be served at another time by someone else – a ridiculous cycle. There are the people “lower” than those who really use their bodies; such as construction workers, cleaners, handymen, etc. Lastly, there are the people who think they’re better than others and are using their “minds” not their bodies. The foolish thing about that is that firstly, the person you are is merely a manifestation of the physical thing that is your brain; and secondly, even if your brain wasn’t physical, it would still need the input of your eyes and ears, and the output of your mouth and hands. You see – everyone’s going about things in the wrong way. They’re using their bodies just the same as the first human to have evolved from an ape.

Shouldn’t we be evolved past this concept of merely using our bodies for our goals in life? Sure, there are many things that we use our bodies for that is enjoyable, but what about the things that aren’t enjoyable? Why do we continue to use our physical labor? Or, a question that hits closer to home: why is our contribution towards our money-making endeavors so linked to time? Why do our bodies have to be somewhere for a certain amount of time in order to be considered productive? Most workers these days must commute to work, thus dragging their half-awake bodies up from bed just to get to some place to use the equipment there and to interface with other workers. It’s good, however, that there are some workers who know that their body doesn’t have to be in a physical place and at a certain time in order to get things (menial, still) done.

It’s like the revolution of the music industry. First, there were magnetic tapes, which were long magnetized strips wound around two spools. You inserted your tape into your walkman and you got music. But, wasn’t rewinding and fast-forwarding tiresome? So, the next revolution was the CD. The CD was great, not only because they were more durable, but because they were much less physical. Yes, physical still, but much less so. The CD just spun and spun and the laser would travel a really short distance. Amazing! No more tape to be tangled up and ruined. That’s an amazing improvement over the overly-physical cassette tape. What happened after that? Well, we all know that the MP3 took over. A completely non-physical way of music! There are absolutely no moving parts in an MP3 player! Just copy your music on over to the flash drive in the MP3 player (the flash drive doesn’t move), and the music magically goes to your ears from the stored file. It doesn’t move! That is a triumph over the physical.

Now, if you want to get ahead in this world, you’ve got to stop thinking physical and think like the MP3. How do you go from dragging yourself out of bed everyday to staying in bed as long as you want and having your “daily quest” completed for you? (Oh, and having someone else do it, or a robot do it is a great thing, but it’s not a revolution, since it’s been done before. Not to say that you can’t profit from such activities; it’s just merely non-revolutional.)