Blind Faith In The System
The convenience of modern day has made us lazy, and it doesn’t take a genius to recognise why. Everything we want is here and now, ready for us without a second to think. Just a tap on a screen and a car arrives to take you to your destination. Feeling peckish at night? Get a chocolate mousse delivered to you from the local restaurant that you can eat with your partner in bed. You barely need to lift a finger to get things you want now, almost immediately.
You don’t have to cook.
You don’t have to budget.
You don’t have to garden.
You can just kick back and relax whilst relying on the system to do it all for you.
Coming off the back of watching War of the Worlds on Amazon (the 2025 edition with Ice Cube) an absolute frenetic ride of tech, reliance and systems. One can’t help but wonder what would happen in the very real event of all systems down globally? Might seem far-fetched, but it might not with current global events that continue to escalate.
This begs the question – with such a heavy reliance placed on systems, rather than us (people) what would you do tomorrow if you woke up and all systems were down? Are you prepared?
What would you do if you woke up tomorrow and your bank account was zeroed out? Do you have a plan?
A recent upload on popular YouTube channel Yes Theory, Thomas and Stephan set off on a trip to the most unknown country with no phone (and no plan). You can see it in their faces… the ‘holy shit, how do I call for an Uber,’ ‘how do we know where we are going,’ and the constant references about wanting to touch their phone but it not being there. They were scared. They could have also been experiencing in a technology detox realising the ‘trusted’ device in their pocket that helps them to live their life was gone. There was no back up.
How would you cope in this situation? Life without your phone…? How would your children cope?
Think about it for a moment. If you dropped your teenager into any area of our country (Australia), within their local area, but took their phone away from them – could they find their own way home? Could they confidently ask strangers for help or directions?
What if our banking systems went completely offline. Could your teenager use cash to make purchases? Have your children ever seen cash?
So much of our lives is spent relying on that little device in our hand, imagine if it stopped working. So many people would flip out. And our younger generation would be the hardest hit because it’s all they’ve ever known.
I’m grateful to be old enough (early 40’s) that I grew up at a time where technology was growing and we used it as a tool, but we weren’t reliant on it. Commodore 64’s were the rage at school, and IBM’s had only just been introduced with CD Rom (OMG). The internet didn’t come to school until I was in high school (around 13 years old), and my first mobile phone was around 18 years old when they were still in their infancy. iPhone was only ever a vision of the future…
Now, children (even infants) have access to iPad’s as exhausted parents seek solutions from parental burn out to entertain their children. The problem? Using technology from such an early age creates reliance. Baby sad, use iPad. At school feeling anxious, use iPad. Studying hard for an exam, use iPad. Technology in this example allows you to tap out from your emotions, your reliance on ‘you’ and keep you hooked into the system.
Our reliance on technology has disconnected ourselves from us. With content on our screens telling us how to see life, view life, live our lives and social proof everywhere online (even if it’s something bad or dangerous for us) has removed us from the ability to live a great life where we are empowered and thriving. Instead, we just keep scrolling and looking for the answers outside of ourselves. Never going within.
And worse – we see people doing dumb stuff online that many replicate, akin to monkey see-monkey do. The benefit? We end up with a society that keeps doing dumb stuff (like wasting money getting an UberEats for McDonalds delivered to your home) and outsourcing their life to a system they have become dependent upon all because they now lack life skills we had only a generation ago.
But there is a new trend emerging in our society. It’s a little quiet, but it’s there. It’s not visible on the television or on your nightly news…
It’s people who are waking up realising that there is more to life.
It’s the reclaiming of their power to choose how they live their life.
It’s the acceptance of taking ownership over their decisions – and stepping out from victimhood.
And choosing to use tech as a tool – not a ‘master,’ and not the ultimate decision maker for every question we have in life.
With more information than ever before in the palm of our hands, yet so many not utilising it – just ‘relying’ on it. You can’t help but wonder if this reliance on a system, rather than relying on ourselves, will be the fall of Rome for our modern-day society. A mass consciousness waking up to take back our power, take back our control and take back our sovereignty.
It’s not up to the system to educate us or our children and empower ourselves to live our best life – it’s up to us.
So… what are YOU going to do now you have read this article? Go back to sleep, or take the reins for your best life yet?
You decide.
With self-reliance and self-responsibility being a leading part of our core values, the simple act of learning how to budget, and truly understanding where your money goes becomes a defiant step forward in taking back YOUR control.
**source – YouTube, Yes Theory, War of the Worlds, Amazon.
Written with love, heart and soul by a human – Andrew Mates (Not A.I).
Keep the human connection alive!
