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José Tamez is an instructor at the University of Texas at Arlington where he has taught Spanish since 2002. He is coordinator of the IBSP program in the Department of Modern languages. He teaches Spanish 4334 and 4335 to majors in the field of International Business Spanish.
His research interest is the study of Latin-American migration patterns to United States and Spain. He’s interested in these movements since they increase the importance of teaching Spanish and strengthen the prestige of Spanish as a world language.
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Thoughts…2009.
The professional slave
Recently, I have come to realize how easy it is to become consumer addicts. We are going through the worst crisis in our time and it’s all due to our natural desire to own material goods fostered through the media and through manipulation. We are weak when we see that new car. And, the credit system made it so accessible. And, now in pursuit of that American dream, we find ourselves indebted beyond imagining and with no viable escape plan in mind. In this nation, children are taught to be professional slaves of the elite, those men and women who for generations have controlled money and power in this country. How can we be so blind. Well, in order to realize that you really don’t have to own that massive home or that luxurious car, you need some comparison. And, that comes when one travels. This is the most viable way of ridding oneself of such oppression. In this way, you can see how other people live and learn to live within your means. The other option, and the greatest contribution that immigrants make, is his/her experience. You see, immigrants bring a host of experiences of deprivation, a different mind, one trained to work hard but not salvage its family along the way. Unfortunately, most Americans don’t do either. And, now we find ourselves isolated from a world which no longer cares to get to know us, either. The problem is that people are running on the treadmill called life, from conception to death. They are so busy working away seeking some “American dream” (which is really just that, a dream) that they don’t really have a chance to meditate on their true purpose in life, whatever that may be. Some will never even find a purpose for living and so will prefer to seek a fantasy in drug use or even suicide.
The evil TV
American babies are trained to consume and all through the most evil of inventions, the television set. This beast has become the entertainer, parent and yes, master of the American mind. There is no other country in the world mocked for being addicted to work!? How have we come to believe that true happiness lies in the goods we own? It is the TV and the elite who control its broadcast and propaganda who are the culprits. It IS insidious and intentional. It is no coincident, it is intentional. Pathetic programming steals invaluable time away from families who believe they don’t have time to spend together but who apparently do have time to watch TV? There are even those who actually believe that sitting in front of the television set is family time. The consequence of this manipulation of the lower rung of the “corporate” ladder, is a populace who is obsessed with attaining goods. These poor souls, with that goal in mind, even deny their own body the care it requires to the point that they become sick, mentally and physically.
Our time alone
We “own” huge homes that we can barely afford, yet find ourselves sitting alone in our grandeur instead of with friends, friendships which we never develop, since we are so busy searching for the American dream. We, the people, have no time to think and devise a plan to escape the snare that the elite have laid. If we continue on this path, we will become an even dumber populace than what currently abides this nation, one wrought with disease, consequence of the incessant and voracious appetite for material goods. Consumerism destroys the family unit, deprives us of friendships and meaningful memories and wreaks havoc on our frail planet. It is time to turn the set off, conjure up an escape plan and learn to live life on our real means and not allow life to live us.
Why war?
War, especially the one we are currently fighting, is motivated by money. The elite, who wish to continue to control wealth, and through manipulation of the masses and shameful lies, have embarked on a war which hasn’t made anyone happy and has created more enemies than we had before it. If at anytime we were susceptible, it is NOW. We have opened Pandora’s box from hell, and now not even those which used to call themselves our allies, stand behind us. How can we have been so fooled? The answer lies in the textbooks used to school our children and the omnipresent television set, easily found in every room. 1% of the world’s population controls over 90% of the money which circulates. The elite are very interested in maintaining power and making the atrocities they have committed seem benign.
You reap what you sow
In order to avoid committing more atrocities, it is necessary to stop deifying murderers, which occurs in our textbooks. We are not learning from history because it is not accurately portrayed. The result of war is death. It is not heroic, it is murder. How can this great nation expect to be admired, respected and loves by the other nations on this globe? Let’s use common sense, whatever is left of it. You reap what you sow. We are all subject to this natural law. If you sow an apple seed, you will not reap one apple, rather hundreds of apples. We sow war and expect to reap peace? How can this be? It’s absolutely impossible. If you kill, you will fall victim of the sword.
9-11
This nation fell victim to the sword on September, 11, 2001. Why would anyone have perpetrated such malice? The only viable answer is that we must have murdered at least that many people, in the past, in order to have experience it. The 9-11 perpetrators were retaliating. You see, when any of us has a family member who is murdered, we will seek revenge. And, that is precisely what those men were doing. They were seeking revenge. So, our response was to murder some more? STOP! We must understand that going to war was not about seeking justice. According to natural law, we were reaping what we sowed. Messieurs-dames, money, Oil, in particular, motivated this war. This is not about democracy as even in the United States, the masses are made productive machines who do not use their minds. In the U.S., the only equal opportunity that I observe is professional slavery.
Seek knowledge
In order to control a people, you control the access that they have to knowledge. The Word teaches us to seek knowledge and wisdom more than material wealth and then we truly be free. Legal slaves were controlled by being kept illiterate in the past. You want to be manipulated, stop reading. It’s that easy. Someone that is not aware of what is happening around them will fall victim of the elite who have created wealth, and are not interested in sharing it. Please, it’s time to invest in yourself. The university is not a place where you earn a degree so that you can become a professional slave, it is a place where you seek knowledge, which in turn will make you truly wealth. If you want to be wealthy, seek understanding, knowledge and wisdom.
The American awakening
Democracy is a mental state and not a physical one. Freedom is felt in the heart and mind. The majority of our citizenry are not physically bound but are, in spirit. I dare say that there are people bound in prison who enjoy freedom even more than those who work 8-5pm, in search of the American dream. It’s good to dream, but at one point, we must enjoy the American awakening.
