That whole mindset of, “someone is pulling the strings and is preventing me from living up to my potential” is the kind of mental slavery that Bob Marley was talking about. None but ourselves can free our minds. It just seems so childish to me. Like the view that someone else can change nature, and that if they could, that they ought do it to their detriment and to the benefit of someone else. It doesn’t put any responsibility on the individual. I know guys who’ve slept in cars and worked 7 days a week, then moved to weekly motels and gotten better jobs, and then who’ve ended up buying homes and funding retirement plans.
When I see someone doing all that and then they tell me that the man is holding them down, maybe I’ll change my mind. But the notion that you ought be handed a life with some leisure, some vacation time, someone else paying your doctor bills, someone ensuring that you own a home and can retire by simply putting in your 40 hours at a job any old job you find is well…as you know…a bit unrealistic.