The Following

Your name is merely a mark to identify you after you're deceased from this synthetic being we call life. Achievements, goals and aspirations are what people expect of you and yet I expect nothing from anyone, but what their heart truly desires.

It's amazing how we complicate our lives with self indulgent asinine bunkum and have the attention span that of circumcised gnat about to be swatted. We follow the leader so pick your poison, political or religious both are prevaricator's of what they speak and seek.

Reviews

[Bare trees]

As you get older, its easier to look back at all those idols and see their faults and weaknesses. All the more reason to be yourself. Young ones can't see any of that. Neither can some of the older adults.

[Dream Weaver]

Agreed, we are now the proud nation of dumbed down ethics and reasoning. All that we strived for in the past has become a race of uneducated emotionally detached cyborgs.

[Cherrie Palmer]

Let us lead the way moving to our call and steer clear of them gnats

[Dream Weaver]

Agreed Ms. Cherrie... :)

[Philip Muls]

Very true. If you read Ernest Becker's Denial of Death, it is all a character lie, everything we do in society is meant to manage our terror if death by creating the illusion of heroism. Heroism in business, in politics, and of course the ultimate...religion. Religion offers immortality of the soul.

You state it very clearly. You want people only to be themselves, authentic rather than synthetic.

[Dream Weaver]

People as in the human race will always need leaders, hence forth politicians religious clergy men and other wannabe heroes. The problem is that we put almost all of our trust and faith in other humans who can't live up to the their billing.