Momopi,
I think you are talking about spinning these concepts in a more polite sugar coated manner. That's just not my style. If you want to write your articles that way, feel free.
I never said that one should not be productive though, or work to make a living. Here is what I said about that in the article:
Now I am not against doing something productive with your life. What I am against is raising humans in oppressive environments where they are treated like slaves, dumbed down, mind controlled, given no freedom, kept in a state of fear and survival mode, taught to judge their worth by their career and material assets, and brainwashed to believe that their sole purpose in life is to make money, to the point where they will feel empty and depressed without a job to enslave them. That's just plain wrong, cruel and oppressive. Humans ought to live freely and be allowed to create their own purpose, (as long as they don't harm others) discover themselves, find their bliss and true calling, and operate from a state of consciousness and awareness, rather than live in fear under oppression and enslavement.
But under the system we live under, one is not conditioned to seek adventure, passion, romance, freedom, love, intellectualism, spirituality, truth, wisdom, philosophy, etc. Instead, one is conditioned to be productive, desiring only to make money and acquire material goods - all of which brings only fleeing satisfaction, leaving one empty and flat, and not understanding why. This in turn leads to eventual disappointment and the need for further distraction and escapism into consumerism, creating a vicious cycle of short-lived stimulation and unfulfillment, all of which empties out one's soul and spirit.
Does that make sense? It's the mental conditioning that creates emptiness and misery without employment that I'm referring to.
Do you remember my parents' friend that you saw in LA when you came over and picked me up? The one with the big house in Orange County?
Well he got an incurable nerve disorder that none of the best doctors in LA could cure. It became a terminal illness. He passed away a few years later. But in the last three months of his life, he chose to spend it managing a motel he co-owned. Why would someone spend the last three months of their life working, especially if they are wealthy and don't even have to?
Because many East Asians are empty and miserable without working. They have no purpose or passion or interest outside of that. No inner life. They are workaholic slaves addicted to work, til the end of their life.
You see what society's "live to work" indoctrination does to people? This is an example. Do you think that's a good thing? Why not teach people to be free sovereign beings instead? Why not teach them to have an inner life, instead of being totally empty on the inside while totally attached to the outer world?
You have Asian wisdom and often quote from it. Well Chinese and Eastern philosophy teaches balance. A person needs to balance their inner life (spirituality) with their outer life, and they need to balance both their right and left brains.
However, society teaches you to NOT have an inner life, to be empty inside while seeking gratification in materialism, and to only use left brained logic to understand things.
Where's the balance in that? Use your Chinese wisdom to analyze that one. Meditate on it. You will see that it's imbalanced.
Don't just use left brained thinking to try to understand this. If you awaken your right brain and spiritual side more, you'd understand what I'm talking about. It takes a certain level of consciousness to see what I'm saying here. A typical mundane mindset isn't going to really get it.
Hope you understand my point.