Paradox

Ever felt you are struggling against something for no reason? Ever felt that the universe in unison is against you, opposing your will, battling your dreams and in general places obstacles in every action you feel like taking?
Lately I see it happening more and more around me. I look at people my age and they are zombies. They have no clue for what they want to do with their lives. The only thing they are good at is copying images promoted by a well set up marketing system. And when obstacles hit them, they take no corrective action. They simply behave like wimps and take it stoically. Unbelievable isn't it? Here they are, in their prime, their most productive years and they choose to enter into a system that will offer them nothing and at the same time will drain them of their best elements and they take it, without even fighting back. And when someone tries to do so, they-even though they haven't had any revenue from the particular system-criticize and battle them. I know I am not the most rational individual there is around, and I know I like taking risks-lots of them-but this, this escapes any model I can grasp and accept.

This is similar to suicide, only it doesn't save you from pain and misery, it simply prolongs it. And that I cannot understand. Why would someone accept without even the minimum struggle a system that is functional and profitable only for 1000 individuals out of 6.000.000.000 total population is beyond my understanding. Lately I fall victim of my own inability of understanding. I am in the edge of re-establishing my life and career, and when I take into consideration the fact that the people I am called to work with are those that I cannot understand I take heed; how can I work with them? And more important, how can they trust me, when I cannot tell them something they like? Because this is what is established in our lives. People succeed only when they have the power or ability -you choose- to tell others what they want to hear and not what they actually need. Take marketing firms, especially the creative department. A client starts an account with an ultimate goal, which is either established by the firm or is identified by the firm's management in unison with the marketing firm. The firm is there because it wants to achieve something and in order to do so, it addresses the specialists, those who are supposed to be the best in their field. If that statement is valid, then ponder on this: why when the specialists propose or come up with something the firm changes it to what they deem right? After all, if they knew from the beginning, why did they address the specialist? Why bother?

For one simple reason: power. I buy off the specialist to execute my idea and satisfy my ego that MY idea was better than those of the specialists, and the fact that they materialized it proves it!!!!

Dickhead, if we could have it our way, then you would probably make twice what you make now, and probably would be more respected but no... You have to have it your way...

Well, have it your way then!!! C if I care... Worse case senario is that I'll probably overcharge you to calm, sooth my frustration and disappointment...
Don't you people understand the value of recognition and respect?