Monday, December 20, 2010
Career vis-a-vis family (Chains of economic values vis-a-vis chains of loves)
(Image via http://goo.gl/OcdMX)
I for one sometimes suspect that the concept of "career" resulted from the combination of the intentional devising by the corporate world's propaganda machines and the somewhat unintentional devising by a small group of really high achievers in the past.
If you entirely buy into that popularized notion of "career", my friend, then you risk ignoring the fact that a more powerful force over your prospect as a worker is the iron law of SUPPLY AND DEMAND, which governs the labor market and an individual's work life all the way. When you enter a labor market and work in it, you are entering a system of chains of (economic) values, and you are not entering a system of chains of loves, essentially. As human beings, we need love. So, my friend, when you are still not too old and discouraged to build a family, you want to do that by all means, for the benefit of yourself and the society at large. Think about that. And think hard about why family life is such an entrenched value in the North American culture.
Straight from the heart - Vintage music video - 齐秦 - 柔情主义
Lyrics copied from http://goo.gl/A0rTk :
柔情主義
作詞：王念慈 作曲：齊秦
She Loves me She Loves me not She Loves me....... 哦讓我輕輕地告訴你我的romance baby 我偷偷地愛上了冬天的暖陽 我悄悄地墜入了大海的情網 我不知不覺無可救藥地為愛感傷 濃濃的柔情 是止不住的淚 隱隱的刺痛 是我滴血的心 濃濃的柔情 是止不住的淚 隱隱的刺痛 是我滴血的心 而我卻只能默默迴避你冷冷的眼光 而我卻只能輕輕地 輕輕地告訴你 讓我輕輕地告訴你我的romance baby 我墜入深深的哀傷 (She loves me) She Loves me She Loves me not 柔情是我們的主張 我們說著千篇一律的地久天長
Note to myself:
There's a best live version of the song at http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTY2NDkzODgw.html but I couldn't embed it into this blog post. Find a way to do that later on.
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