Know your number. If you don__ know it you might forget who you are.
We are not consumers. For most of humanity__ existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our clothes, shelter, and education, we hunted and gathered our food.We are not addicts. __ propose that most addictions come from our surrendering our real powers, that is, our powers of creativity._ We are not passive couch potatoes either. __t is not the essence of humans to be passive. We are players. We are actors on many stages_. We are curious, we are yearning to wonder, we are longing to be amazed_ to be excited, to be enthusiastic, to be expressive. In short to be alive._ We are also not cogs in a machine. To be so would be to give up our personal freedoms so as to not upset The Machine, whatever that machine is. Creativity keeps us creating the life we wish to live and advancing humanity__ purpose as well.
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We are not consumers. For most of humanity__ existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our clothes, shelter, and education, we hunted and gathered our food.We are not addicts. __ propose that most addictions come from our surrendering our real powers, that is, our powers of creativity._ We are not passive couch potatoes either. __t is not the essence of humans to be passive. We are players. We are actors on many stages_. We are curious, we are yearning to wonder, we are longing to be amazed_ to be excited, to be enthusiastic, to be expressive. In short to be alive._ We are also not cogs in a machine. To be so would be to give up our personal freedoms so as to not upset The Machine, whatever that machine is. Creativity keeps us creating the life we wish to live and advancing humanity__ purpose as well.
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