Champagne taste with only beer money, and one cool spider :)

So this is going to sound a little ‘whatever’ for a bit, so don’t judge and try to stay with me. But I was noticing the other night while smoking a cigarette, again please don’t judge (it was after a few brews), that there is a spider web on a lamp post near the ledge of my apartment. Now this particular spider web I have noticed before, but I actually noticed the spider this time and I thought to myself, while actually saying it aloud as a pseudo soliloquy, “Spider-bro you have the life, you catch your own food as it comes to your home, you have a perfect cover for when it rains and you live there rent free, we fucked up.”

Let’s just go ahead and break that sentence down so that I can better explain where I am coming from. See, I am looking at this particular spider, his home, and his potential meal, as symbolism for where we may fucked up as a society in the Western world. I know this may come across as somewhat philosophical (maybe even out there) and I hope it does, that is my intention.

 In a sense we are all just like this spider. We eat, but instead of setting up an intricate web to catch our meals as they fly by, we do the things that best set us up to get those meals bought and paid for. We do those things like having a job, going to school (be it a trade or university) to get better a job basically doing anything to get that dollar. There are people who are completely happy that have no materialistic needs in their life, and god do I envy those people. They’re necessities  don’t require having a lot of  money to do these things, things like farming for themselves and neighbors and living off the land primarily. Even the agricultural industry in the US is incentivized with subsides to produce mostly major exports leaving other sustainable crops on the back burner and underutilized.

Money makes the world turn. Look at all the trouble it has gotten us into, but it would be foolish to not also account for all of the good it has done the world. The innovations in technology have a direct influence on every part of our daily lives, which is brilliant and detrimental to where we are in the 21^st century, which required money. But with a lot of money people can acquire a lot of power, which can potentially lead to corruption. That is an old story though and one that is quite obvious.

Basically what I am saying is that having Champagne taste with only beer money only gets you so far. Our country and most of the world was affected by the recession in 2009 (except you Australia, you sexy country you) and without getting too political, but staying just positively philosophical I am saying we all need to be more like the spider. You see the spider appears rough on the outside and they aren’t necessarily the prettiest thing to look at, but at least it’s honest and I think sometimes money can take that out of people. But if we all stay true to ourselves and figure out a way to get that dollar but getting it in a way with grace and patience we will all be better off and never let corruption and influence from any social construct get in our way, because then the potential flaw in society might take the win.. We can’t let that happen.

B.