Poverty of the Mind: Revisited.

Poverty of the mind is not having the necessary philosophy that is needed in order to meet the challenges of life in a positive, optimistic, and realistic manner. There are many different attitudes a person can adopt in life.  Two attitudes I believe are to important contributors to societal status.  One is the Positive attitude.  The other is the negative attitude.

I believe that a lot of people fail in learning the issues, knowing their candidates, and getting involved in civic responsibilities is because of the, “Everything Sucks. Nothing works.  Why bother?” attitude.  There is also the “Everything will always remain the same” attitude.  Then there is the “What can one person do?” attitude.

I wonder if people realize that by using these attitudes they are actually the reason why society is in such a mess.  When nobody gets involved things remain the same and sometimes get worse.

The idea that brought me to this article was that the poor are victims of circumstances.  I do not subscribe to this attitude.  I know we can put things in perspective. We can concentrate on the good.  We can put our best foot forward.  We can appreciate what we have.  We can enjoy what we have.

I was watching a YouTube video produced by The Four Horse Men yesterday.  The central point of this video was the greed in Wall Street. In my opinion this video had many errors of philosophy.  People are not controlled by Major corporations and the uber-rich.  The actions of business people can affect the lives of everyday people.  However, we do not have to go into debt purchasing their products.

How smart is it to pay 3 times the value of a home on financing alone?  Those in the real estate industry would like us to finance a home and pay four times its value in interest on a loan.  However, we do not have to buy a home that will require 30 years to pay it off.  The same can be said for cars and university education.

Now, where do our attitudes come from? In today’s world our attitudes are the result of electronic media and common social conversation.  There is the grand Common social conversation that the majority understands.  There is Cultural Common Social conversation that the members of a culture understand.

The ideas in the Welfare culture are very poor.  We all know that there are people who-when given the opportunity, will not work and live off others.  There are people who drive drunk.  There are people who go out on the weekend to have fun and spend a lot of time attacking society with their noise and dangerous driving behavior.

My simple psychological doctrine is that thoughts influences emotions and sensations and emotions and sensations influence behavior.  Therefore, I can say that people with bad behaviors have bad thoughts.

Why are you and I who are people of positivism being held hostage by people of the negative? Politicians and special interest groups have told us that poor people need help.  Poor people have the same brain that you and I use to put our best food forward and focus on the good.  We deal with the reality of our lives by being grateful for what we have and enjoying what we have in life.

I am always asking people how they would help a man in his mid-forties who cannot speak English, has no education, has no employable skills, and has a bad attitude. It is true life is what we make it.  We can use our personal skills in order to find a niche in society or we can keep making bad choices with our narrowed minded negativity.

There are people who would tell me that I cannot know for certain that 100% of people who are struggling with life are not doing their best. I am sure they are doing their best.  However, their best is the result of a head full of negative attitude, which is leading to an undesirable life.

I will give some people credit because media sources have created a false reality of life.  The reason many cannot be happy, fulfilled, and at peace is because they are trying to obtain this false reality and failing at it.

The politicians can continue to make welfare, food stamps, federal housing, and healthcare promises.  These promises are how they pander for votes.

We, however, have the intellectual ability to know that these promises are false. We also have the ability to know that gadgets and homes we cannot afford will not bring us peace, love, and joy either.

I can never support more government spending in social programs because I now we all have the necessary skills to engage our industrial environment and get our peace of the pie.  The problem comes from letting others convince us that our piece is not good enough.

We must also admit that there are evil people who enjoy taking advantage of others.  I do not believe that everyone on government assistance is a good person who would live a better life if government would just him or her more of his or her neighbors’ money.

Will those who run red lights, speed, and drive violently ever recognize that they are putting in danger the lives of everyone around them?  Will murderers, rapist, and thieves ever realize the harm they do to their victims?  There is no reason to wait for empathy and sympathy from the super-rich.  They do not owe you anything.  We owe ourselves.

The money they have is not your money.  It was your money.  However, you bought their goods and services and now it is their money. We can all manage our resources better.

The human resources being wasted are good philosophies. Today, we can say that after overspending 9 trillion dollars democrats are failures at helping people.  

Therefore, Obama failed because of his incorrect philosophies.

Many believed he has going to help them.  Many more that need little incentive to mooch of their neighbor were quick to get in line to get their government help.

Everyday around the world people use their negativity to justify the harm they do to others.  Whether it is Republicans working for big business in finding big business cheap labor or a person who has no guilt about the lies he or she  tells for a government check, it is all destructive to society.

That is why I know people do not suffer because of the money they do not have. They suffer because they do not have a healthy attitude about life.