Motivation

[Helvetius 314]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0ZzN6hxdzo

 

Are you chasing a goal outside of LoTC and the games you are playing?

[WuHanXianShi14 0]

Well I hope to get into marketing department at my local college and work my way into the media advertizing industry. I play LOTC too much though. Really working on forcing myself off the computer recently.

[Rig 17581]

Yeah. Working on my art, my school work, and a lot of my normal life. Focusing on writing a book in the science fiction category and gonna get it published. I've also been working towards coding java script, and after that normal java, and after that perhaps HTML and C++. 

[Eetswa 422]

[Helvetius 314]

What will happen then when the US economy collapses and you're in your house? Are you going to start rioting when you realize you don't have food and begin hurting other people/structures or sit there starving, hoping someone will come around to give you a plate of food? You would lock yourself out of the third choice.

[Neri 3590]

What will happen then when the US economy collapses and you're in your house? Are you going to start rioting when you realize you don't have food and begin hurting other people/structures or sit there starving, hoping someone will come around to give you a plate of food? You would lock yourself out of the third choice.

 

I'm not sure what you're getting at... people live within their means and bounds. If you live in a third world country then of course your life is going to be different and most likely less comfortable than a first world one, but the argument of "Others have it worse off" doesn't exactly hold water seeing as though we aren't other people, we are ourselves. Unless you expect the majority of the first world to throw off the trappings of a comfortable life and embrace hand-to-mouth living in one swift move, you can't force such questions on an individual who has likely never experienced such a life.

 

A war-orphan from Syria would find high-class living in somewhere like New York just as difficult to adjust to as a privileged high-class person would in the orphans place. It's just a matter of perspective and what you're accustomed to. Yes, all of us with Internet connections probably live comfortable lives, yes most of us probably don't deserve such a life when you delve into how exactly our ancestors accrued their wealth, but that doesn't mean that the sins of the fathers should cause us to have to repent for relative indulgence when it's all we know.

 

I myself know what rough living is like. Of course not as much as, say, someone from the Gaza Strip would but I can get the gist of it. Nobody would really willingly want that. Otherwise why would the hunter-gatherers of old have embraced agriculture and discovered the meaning of free time? People want to be comfortable, people want to have things. Progress is in human nature, and we often forget that some don't have the means to do so. It's just how we are, as much as we try to deviate from it for the sake of altruism or selflessness. 

 

Back on the topic of your post, if push does come to shove and the US economy collapses then you/he'd probably do what any other person does, survive. How you do that is up to the individual.

[Rig 17581]

What will happen then when the US economy collapses and you're in your house? Are you going to start rioting when you realize you don't have food and begin hurting other people/structures or sit there starving, hoping someone will come around to give you a plate of food? You would lock yourself out of the third choice.

Let me point you some pointers. 

1. It won't collapse permanently, it's already picking itself up to it's feet, and I doubt we'll see anything like it in our life time again. 

2. I'm personally a nice middle class high-schooler, and wouldn't riot, and instead do things all smart people like to do: Survive somehow, the quote "survival of the fittest" is a load of ****, anyone can survive if they have developed an instinct. 

3. I know you're not talking to me, but I took it as a question since I'm bored as heck at the moment and want something to do as a task. :)

Otherwise, read Freya's post. And to tell the truth as well, LOTC's a hobby, if someone makes it seem like more, don't get angry. It's their fault if their missing out on a good life outside a box with a blue screen. 

[Sneaky 189]

Okay, Ray Lewis motivation? Really? Most the motovation he is talking about sports for the most part.

[Rhia 936]

Moved to the Great Library. It shall be sorted into appropriate category shortly.