So sick and tired of this.

I really don't understand this 'game' called modern life. It's rigged against us, has to many rules that aren't stated on the box, and the tutorial we forcibly receive from ages six through eighteen seems specifically designed to destroy the skills and instincts we need to succeed.

We have a set of game rules that include the need for accounting, and calculations around interest rates and tax forms, and personal document organization, and a host of other paperwork skills. But we are taught algebra, and geometry and calculus. We have a set of game rules that reward audacity, the willingness to fail, and the ability to fail without damaging ones assets. But we are taught trepidation, fear of failure and allowed to believe that a generous master is better than your own backup plan. We have a set of game rules that reward self teaching, and curiosity. But we attack curiosity, because it is hard to manage; and make learning so arduous during schooling that people refuse to learn after graduation. We nee practical skills that we can fall back on, when things do not go according to plan: critical-thinking, self-sufficiency, and self-defense. Instead, we are taught abstract skills in a way that does not explain their use and fills up our time so that we have no practical skills when we hit the age of eighteen. 


So, I am really sick and tired of this. 


Something has to change. What are we to do?