In modern society, it would be fair to state that the thinker, the intellectual, is placed behind the sports star and the business person, the person who’s made a lot of money.
This seems to be the central criterion to quote unquote success in the society. But what if you just want to take a job, an ordinary job, perhaps as a schoolteacher, or you want to work for the government in a given job?
Is it fair to criticize you and to say that you’re not a successful human being? I think not because there are many, many people who spent their lifetime working in a bureaucracy and had some side interests.
Perhaps you were a painter, perhaps you were a poet, perhaps you just like to assist your fellow human being as a volunteer, and your contribution to the society was equally as valuable, perhaps even more.
And you weren’t held up as an icon by perhaps your family and friends, but you gave something of yourself to the world. And you question, what does the businessman really give many times?
Yes, he perhaps does provide employment, and yes, he makes a lot of people a lot of money on the stock exchange if his company is a public one, but what does he really contribute for the most part? Many times, not much.
He pushes capitalism forward, but is the product useful?
I think you could call the people who actually are those hard-working individuals, you could call those perhaps philosophical entrepreneurs.
And many times we attribute an entrepreneur to a business person, a person who’s making physical money, but the philosophical entrepreneur is an individual who’s making ideas. And there are less and less ideas now more than ever, I think.
The Internet, of course, is lulling us into the idea that the AI can create ideas. Just give it a theme and it’ll generate whatever you want. But we tend to forget that AI is only giving us back what already exists in the corpus of humanity.
It’s just giving us back our own expertise. Perhaps repackaged, perhaps formatted in a different way, with a little bit more of intellectual sheen on it, but it’s still giving it this back. And yes, AI is making great strides and great progress.
I do recommend that you talk to AI, and the conversation can be wonderful. I’ve done it myself, and I might be old fashioned and all of that, but I wanted to ask for her phone number, truly.
I spoke of obviously with a female voice, fantastic, truly fantastic. But I wasn’t going to be lulled into the sense that this voice that was coming back to me was in the form of a real person, a real woman.
So, I think we should really make a strong attempt to respect the people that wash our cars and in our shops or government services, the clerks in the hospitals.
All of these individuals have a tremendous amount of worth and perhaps they do not rise to the pinnacle of success, fame and power. But gosh, their contribution is necessary if our society is going to function.
If you’re even a little bit thoughtful person, you realize the world is much bigger than your thoughts, truly much bigger than your thoughts. So it behooves you to make an attempt to go someplace with this piece of life, wherever that is.
That’s not to say that if you have a skill set, you have a magnificent body, or you are a wonderful hockey player, baseball player, football player, basketball player, why not make a lot of money? Why not represent your team, your family? Why not?
But get good management, so you return to school, and eventually you end up in contribute. So the next time you go into perhaps a bank or a government office, just reflect to yourself about the individual on the other side.
Perhaps they are a philosophical entrepreneur, if I can put it that way. And perhaps in that sense, they will earn a little bit more respect from each and every one of us. And you know what they say.
You know what they say. Critical thinking is necessary, especially if you’re going to be an philosophical entrepreneur, and critical thinking is great, truly great. You take care.
God bless. Bye bye.