The Rat Maze. How much farther will humanity go? It seems as if our golden age as a society has run out and we’re in a huge downward spiral. Every day I feel closer and closer to the ultimate realization that the clothes we put on and the money we fill our pockets with are all fake. If you’re like me, you understand this.
Cash is printed out and loaned to banks at a low rate of interest, who supposedly loan that “money” to customers who spend it on houses and cars and dressing up imaginary dolls they call, “me”. . And if the government loans ten million dollars to a bank at half a percent interest, there’s $50,000 that is unaccounted for. It’s debt.
Imagine that there was no $$$ in circulation and the government tried this tactic, which it must have at some point. They loan ten million to a bank and ask for ten million plus fifty thousand. But that fifty thousand doesn’t exist, it’s all made up to keep society in a neat little rat race of a machine, struggling to escape a fake debt that can never be re-paid.
It’s a huge dead end that everyone must face. Everyone is convinced to run for that cheese at the end of the maze, to chase the carrot from inside the wheel. We’re programmed to believe that our efforts will be rewarded and that the pie in the sky will taste sweet. But the faster we run, the quicker we fall into the rat maze, to which there is no way out.
© 2026 – SoulSequel
6 responses to “what is the biggest trap humans fall into?”
you might not know this but money is not necessarily loaned by the government to a bank. A bank can have $1,000,000 in cash assets, but they can loan $10,000,000. They leverage the 1 and have the ability to loan 10. In other words, they are being paid interest on money that does not exist in the first place. My ratios may be off there, but it’s close enough to illustrate the ridiculous nature of the system.
I think the biggest financial trap many people fall into is thinking that their budget is based on what payments they can afford monthly. The credit card companies prey on this attitude. Big sucker trap is one year no interest, but if at the end of the year, you have a balance, very high interest rates are applied to the entire lend and then you have the principle and the high rate of interest that keeps compounding, making it very difficult to pay off. The original deal is like a fishing lure and once hooked, it is hard to get free.
The biggest trap in my mind is the one where superficial things like money will deliver happiness. People forget that contentment is at the root of happiness and with a lot of money, more is always being thrust at you in the form of temptation. Very hard to ever feel content because once you have that big house; you need a fix of the bigger house to trigger your serotonin. It;s never ending and that is why you see very wealthy stars killing themselves. More money, more fame, more stimulation of any kind. Contentment becomes elusive.
It is so easy to fall into that trap because we are constantly being stimulated to want more materiality
note; you think society is on a downward spiral, but you may want to specify. Your society is on a downward spiral. There are others that are not. Scandinavian countries learned a while ago to focus on real and positive things that support long term growth. You should watch Michael Moore’s “Where to invade next” where he looks at various societies around the world to see what they are doing better. You will be shocked I’m sure because it makes your society look very bad in comparison. He even uses Cuba in the comparisons by taking 9-11 rescue workers to Havana to get freee healthcare they couldn’t afford to get in the States.
And why is it on a downward spiral? Because money matters more than people and the people seem to believe that and act accordingly being their own worst enemy.
Making the decision to reverse that, where people are more important than money requires genuine leadership, because the mob is easily influenced by snake oil salesmen.
@spitfire3dc Ah, yes, I am Certain it is My society. “Hell is empty and all the devils are here” – someone
The biggest traps we fall into, is religious thinking.
Let me explain with this monetary example you’ve raised.
Beyond simple necessities (which could easily be self-generated and bartered among us), consumerism infects us all with the lie that physical possessions (including money) will make us “safe” and “right” (righteous). This is the “pie-in-the-sky” we’re told to run after — and like a dog chasing a ball, we tear off after it.
That is not saying that working, saving and procuring are bad things. But the downward spiral comes when we religious worship these things as our “salvation” — rather than just as tools we remain the master of.
We don’t need nearly the stuff we think we do to make us “safe” and “righteous”! My budget is NOT based on the payments I can carry (provided I can keep working!) but on what I firstly truly need, and secondarily can afford.
Other than a mortgage (which is on an accelerated pay-down), I carry zero monthly debt. I don’t buy what I cannot afford, save for a true emergency. And then I pay this down ASAP, perhaps even forgoing some of the few basic luxuries I afford myself.
I am money’s master; not it’s “possession”. So I don’t need to religiously worship it!