If You’re Young And Poor And Have No Rich Relatives, You’re Destined For Greatness
Alexander Nekrassov writes from Monte Carlo: If you’re young and into celebs a lot, then this one is not for you. But if you have interests outside the box and gossip mags and tabloid newspapers then here’s something for you to chew on: if you’re young and poor and have no family connections and not a chance in the world to inherit anything of any value, then you are destined for greatness.
I bet you didn’t expect that, now did you? I bet you’re thinking now: how can it be that if someone is young and poor and has no wealthy parents or relatives he or she can be destined for greatness? It’s not like some of these celebs, who have the looks and the talent that help them to make it big in this world and become rich and famous. But how can anyone without any looks and talents achieve greatness? It’s just crazy, innit?
Well, first of all, most celebs are mediocrities really who are not really good at anything. Grey, uninspiring people who are used by the advertising industry to sell stuff. Pretty much nothing more to them. No point in copying them, no point at all.
Anyway, all you young people out there, who grew up on council estates, having been denied the opportunity to receive decent education by consecutive governments, you should know that you can only depend on yourselves. The thing is that governments don’t care for their citizens. They are there for posterity and to make money on the side, catering for the interest of the wealthy. The rest is of no concern to them. One look at those opportunists of the past and present – John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron – is enough to tell you what they’re all about – self-centred, arrogant, incompetent, money grabbing creeps.
Young people, who have no one to help them, should be like soldiers in the Vietnamese army: they were always left to look after themselves, finding food and shelter at every possible opportunity. But it was still one of the best armies in the world that kicked butt of many big nations like the US, France and China. So the system of self-reliance works, if you know that you shouldn’t expect any favours from anyone.
So what’s the deal then, you may ask. Well, first of all, you do your best to stay out of trouble and avoid the scum who will be pushing you to drinking and taking drugs. Treat these creeps as your worst enemies. They want you to fail, they are lowlifes, who get a kick out of seeing others go down. Then, stay away from the box that can only damage your whole way of thinking. Leave it for the sad pathetic non-entities, who spend whole days watching this rubbish.
Next come computers. Remember, they are good instruments to find out useful things, but if you get sucked into this endless gaming stuff, then you will never achieve anything. Think of computer games as coming straight from hell, with all the senseless violence and total lack of any useful information. They are made for people with no ambition to achieve anything. They are brain-dumbers, a total waste of time.
Computers should not dominate your life. They should be there to help you improve it, learn new things, get some knowledge on board, find out about the world. Your brain is a muscle in a way and you need to exercise it to develop it. You can’t just let it turn to jelly by watching crap on the box and playing computer games endlessly. Just like listening to rubbishy music of the likes of Lady Gaga would not benefit you in any way.
And now we come to the most important thing of all – reading. And I mean proper books not the Harry Potter type of trash. You will have to read classical writers to get that grey matter of your to start working properly. It’s tough, but it’s worth it. From classics you pick things that you won’t find anywhere else. And if you throw in classical music, then it’ll be even better.
Greatness, you see, is not about easy money. It’s about standing up against the tide of filth and nastiness that is thrown at you and becoming well educated and intelligent – against all the odds, with the politicians and retailers and TV execs and other lowlifes doing everything to turn you into a spineless consumer, who doesn’t ask any question and just votes for whoever is thrown at him and buys whatever is advertised on the box.
And you don’t want to be a moron like that, now do you? So go for it then, become great.
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Well said. I fully understand your point, after all, I grew up in struggling in a 3rd world country.
the type of greatness you’re speaking of here is of a kind one must first be interested in – you’re speaking of a largely unrewarding kind, the greatness of spirit and soul, the moral greatness, which most persons mock.
Indeed, if you achieve it, the world will be your enemy. But well the world is your enemy anyway. You’re speaking of intellectual greatness, a kind of thing that, besides, works against universities and academies (every person with a culture knows very well that univerisities are lessons in ignorance, because they teach you that information is for making money out of it – universities are just the recruiting centers of well trained monkeys to make them work for the wealthy “lowlifes” as you call em)
Well said. Only, very few persons will be interested, and those who will be, will still be busy defending their greatness form a hostile world that wants no greatness and that rewards incompetence corruption and stupidity
This is a very interesting piece. Thank you for it. ”If you’re young and into celebs a lot, then this one is not for you” I loved that! Made me chuckle… I must agree with ”A” this road is for the courageous and stern in their beliefs and curious to find out what the world has in store for them. For the noble heart that knows deep in its being that there is more than just the fashion magazines, tv shows, mindless gaming and all the rest that is there to jog the years as the mind is drained of all reason and self reliance.
This level of consciousness however, I feel mighty privileged to have acquired and although it is not a switch I can flip and turn on at will – much like what most of our world has come to – it is a journey of self discovery and exploration of great minds that have been and more exciting those are and those that are still to be. I am grateful to have come across this article, as ”unlikely and random” as it was.
Please do suggest any particular readings or sites that may be fruitful in this journey. Keep on keeping on and hold fast to your ways for it this road, is not for the meek. I am honored to be in such company be it distanced by time and space. Thank you once again…
While I think you raise a good point, you do seem a little pompous. It’s fine to listen to trashy music and watch TV if that’s what you enjoy, but I agree not in excess. To tell people to never watch TV and to only listen to classical music if they want to be clever looks a little pretentious.
While I personally fit all of the descriptions used for young people “destined for greatness,” this article strikes me as very elitist. We are much better off asking questions about why people are interested in the “rubbish” they care about, rather than writing it, and them, off without another thought. Remember that when writing became common, many thinkers (Socrates most famously) were against it because it supposedly ruined the ability to remember. Instead of avoiding things like video games and TV, we should try to discover what it is about those things that is appealing so we can better understand our world.
Read books? That’s it? That’s the only advice of what to do, rather than not do? Anything else? It takes a lot lot more than reading books to be successful. Actual practical actions need to take place. If you can’t suggest something useful and constructive don’t write some nonsense, meaningless article stating the obvious.
Yes, if you f,,king read then you become great. Try doing it instead of watching the box all night.
Yeah, you are right. But tell me something that i dont know. I read a lot (clasiccals and non-classicals too), i listen to folk music, i watch only news and soccer on TV. I know i am great but i still need money bro.
I object to the rubbish book etiquette you so nonchalantly labeled Harry Potter with. It’s actually quite a remarkable blend of Neoplatonic creeds. Almost like and encyclopedia if you know how to go about it. I have fellow colleagues at the faculty of letters doing their BA theses on it. It’s not a children’s book if you don’t solely focus on the narrative line. Speaking of which, Harry was young, poor and lacking serious prospects for the future up to a point.
As for the rest of the article…yeah,ok.
I only watch discovery channel and spend 14 hours a day working, why am I still skint?
What earth-shattering truths! Celebrities are boring! Television rots your brain! Video games are for dumb people! Read books, but only the books I approve! Listen to music, but only good music! How controversial! How revolutionary and original!
What are you, from the 1950′s? Grow up.
I love video games… They’re fun. People like different things, doesn’t mean they’re wrong.
You do not seem very open minded to me.
I dont even know how to grade myself….spend times with games and movies online
It is nice to read some different point of view.. But, after all it said and done, money still important though.. Maybe, this post also need to provide follow-up regarding how to get stable income with this point of view.
Nice sharing. Thanks..
You lost me when you said we shouldn’t read Harry Potter. Killed the whole thing.
You hit the nail on the head. Now, if only more people would follow your advice…
I’ve been reading classical literature and listening to classical music for years but I’m still dirt poor and not very famous…
I was with you until you called Harry Potter “a piece of trash”. Really ruined it from me.
Reading books is great but problem is applying the knowledge you get from books. How many people do that? If you try to apply the knowledge and try to make a positive difference in the society, you face incredible hardships. All we can manage to do by reading books is enrich our own life and be an onlooker to all the bad things happening continuously around us and criticizing it. The real great person is the one who go out and try to make a positive difference in the society.