Break the Chains: Why We Need to Rethink Education, Work, and Life

Most of us are born into a script we never wrote.
Be a child. Go to school. Get good grades. Earn a degree. Work for 30+ years. Retire. And maybe _just maybe_ you can enjoy life before you die.

This is the model we’ve been sold across every society, every culture. It looks safe. It looks normal. But in reality, it’s a trap. People walk through life unhappy, medicated, and depressed, believing there’s no alternative. They think: if everyone else is living this way, it must be right.

As the Persian saying goes:
“خواهی نشوی رسوا همرنگ جماعت شو”
(“If you don’t want to be disgraced, go along with the crowd.”)

But this instinct to blend in has destroyed countless lives. The crowd is heading in the wrong direction, and following them only ensures more suffering.

The Rockefeller System: How Obedience Replaced Independence

The system we live in today wasn’t designed for human freedom; it was designed for industrial control.
In the early 20th century, the Rockefeller Foundation poured money into shaping modern education. On the surface, it looked like philanthropy. In reality, it created schools modeled on factories:

• Bells for shifts.
• Desks in rows.
• Teachers as managers.
• Standardized tests for standardized people.

The goal wasn’t to raise free thinkers. It was to mass-produce workers: obedient, punctual, replaceable. Perfect for the industrial era, but disastrous for human creativity.

Why the Old Path No Longer Works

The industrial age is over. Machines, automation, and artificial intelligence now do much of the labor people once slaved over. Yet we are still educating children like factory workers; stripping away independence, curiosity, and creativity.

No wonder people feel lost. They spend decades on the treadmill of “safe jobs” and pensions, only to find themselves burnt out and broke, while governments hand back a pension that barely covers the bills. This is modern slavery dressed up as security.

The Alternatives: Education and Life

Human beings weren’t meant to be copies of each other. Evolution gave us diversity and mutation so we could explore new possibilities. When we force every child into the same mold, we cut off the very instincts that made us survive as a species.

But there are alternatives.

• Montessori schools let children learn independently, guided by curiosity.
• Waldorf education nurtures creativity and imagination.
• Finland’s schools focus on well-being, trust, and collaboration instead of endless tests.

These systems don’t mass-produce obedient workers; they raise thinkers, creators, entrepreneurs.

The True Way of Living

If you want freedom, don’t wait until retirement to live. Don’t put your trust in government pensions or company loyalty.

• Invest in yourself. Build skills that can’t be automated.
• Start your own hustle. Even a small business gives more freedom than 30 years in someone else’s factory or office.
• Join the free global market. Sell directly to customers, grow your brand, and scale your income.
• Invest smart. Gold, stocks, real estate; these protect your future more than pensions that shrink with inflation.

Life isn’t about working until you’re too old to enjoy it. It’s about building your independence now, while you’re alive and strong.

Final Thought

The Rockefeller system taught us to obey, to fear leaving the path, to sacrifice our freedom for a false sense of security. But that era is over.

The new age belongs to those who think differently, who refuse to be another cog in the machine.

So ask yourself:
Are you going to walk the path of obedience study, work, retire, die?
Or will you break the cycle, invest in yourself, and live free?

The choice is yours.

Reza