{"id":12261,"date":"2018-08-08T22:53:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T14:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=12261"},"modified":"2018-08-08T22:53:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T14:53:55","slug":"productive-member-of-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2018\/08\/08\/productive-member-of-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do we want to become productive members of society?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a few different interesting conversations with a few different people. One friend said, when she was asked to articulate her dreams and ambitions, that her goals were to &#8220;raise a happy family&#8221; and &#8220;to be a productive, contributing member of society&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Damien<\/p>\n<p>Jayne<\/p>\n<p>Lee Kuan Hui<\/p>\n<p>Someone else said<\/p>\n<p>So you just don&#8217;t want to be a burden<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;My existence is a debt which is a bad feeling that I mask by internalizing that if I output change to the world I deserve to live.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; andri (@laundryandri) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laundryandri\/status\/980041731184955392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A very interesting phrase that I&#39;ve heard from a few different people is something along the lines of &quot;I want to be a productive member of society&quot;. What does this sentence mean to you?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/980001043890106370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a few different interesting conversations with a few different people. One friend said, when she was asked to articulate her dreams and ambitions, that her goals were to &#8220;raise a happy family&#8221; and &#8220;to be a productive, contributing member of society&#8221;. Damien Jayne Lee Kuan Hui Someone else&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[583],"tags":[648],"class_list":["post-12261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peopling","tag-psychoanalysis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-3bL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}