In Britain, we are not allowed to commit acts of love until we are 16.Then, we are forced to retire at 65.
This implies a useful life of 49 years; but wait!We aren't allowed to vote until we are 18, so it would appear that the governors of rule grudgingly tolerate our adulthood for no more than 47 years.
Before this period we are irrelevant children(who can still volunteer to kill people or die for them), and afterwards we are cheerfully useless old codgers on our ways to the graveyards, and will we please shut up and let the rulers get on with things.
The mean life-span of the Victorian man was 35 years(so we are told).But they were allowed to live life from age 5, and live until the end; that means that in 150 years, age has doubled but life-expectancy has only gone up by 17 years.
Dangerous stuff, life.
Mustn't let it get out of control. Trouble is, you aren't alive until you are actually out of control, so life expectancy is now a fraction of 47 years; say we spend 12 years asleep, then we are out of control;a further 18 months on holiday, that makes 13.5 years.
Then we have Friday nights.If the average person only gets arrested or ejected once every two months, but spends 8 hours per weekend free,(or attempting to remember what that is), then we have a further 1 day every three weeks of freedom, or 2.5 more years.Say 3 years for Saturdays.
That means that the average life expectancy in Britain is 19 years.
Only 7 of those are waking, conscious life, and in any case most of that is spent trying to bridge the disruption caused by neighbourliness.
The rest of the time is slavery, waiting to live, or waiting to die.
And people wonder why the rulers of government treat us with such contempt.
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I've got about 4 years left then, and I'm spending them blogging! I should be at the bar instead...
Take a little advice from Howard Roark;choose a job where you can be out of control,like painting or music or architecture or business(yeah right, mister govnor),anything where nobody else is telling you what to do.
That way you get an extra five days out of every week, 8 hours per day;say two days per week at 24 hours, or 100 days per year or 1 year in three.That's an extra 16 years.(Permitted).Then we go to law-breaking, such as underage sex, smoking, drinking, and working after 65.
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