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Unfair Or Unwilling?

The Flea Circus Struggle Of Today's World

Cody Dakota Wooten, C.B.C.'s avatar
Cody Dakota Wooten, C.B.C.
Dec 04, 2025
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Unfair Or Unwilling?

The Flea Circus Struggle Of Today’s World

I hear a lot of people who talk about how...

The world is unfair.

The events in their lives are unfair.

The circumstances that they live within are unfair.

And I get it...

There are real limitations and struggles that people face.

But there is a question that I constantly have...

What are you doing to change your life?

This brings up something that is important to distinguish...

Are things actually unfair?

Or have you been unwilling to change?

There is an old saying...

If you do the same thing over and over again...

And expect different results...

That is the definition of insanity.

The vast majority of the time, what I find is that...

People default to saying life is unfair...

While never actually doing anything to try to change it.

This does not mean that some aspects of life are not fair...

But what it does mean...

Is that if you are not actively doing something to try to change your life...

Then you cannot truly determine if it is unfair.

It is an assumption that things are unfair...

A mindset...

You are living in a defeatist and deterministic reality of your own design...

Learned helplessness...

Or a reality which has been influenced by others “telling” you that things are unfair...

When the reality is...

Usually, those who tell you this...

Are profiting from your dependent beliefs that things are unfair...

Creating what you could call a parasitic relationship.

Once again, this does not mean that unfairness does not exist...

There are real things that are unfair...

But what I find far more often...

Is that people simply “believe” that things are far more unfair than is true in reality.

Have you ever heard of a flea circus?

They are not as common in today’s world, but they still exist.

What happens is that the flea circus owners will take young fleas, and put them in a box with a lid...

A training or grooming period...

Where there is a literal barrier that prevents the fleas from escaping.

After a time...

The fleas determine that they cannot escape...

And accept this as reality...

Which the flea circus owner then is able to remove the lid without fear of the fleas ever escaping...

Even though the fleas could escape at any point after that.

Many people in today’s world act like fleas in the flea circus.

They have been groomed and trained to believe that they are...

Incapable...

Stuck...

Powerless...

Vulnerable...

Weak...

And they are trained that they must become dependent on others to change this...

The flea circus owners.

But the reality is that these individuals have far more power than they realize or understand...

Capable of escaping from the Flea Circus under their own power at any second they want...

But they simply are Unwilling to try.

The problem with this is that when you become dependent on someone or something else...

You are enslaved to them.

The type of enslavement may vary.

Physical or Emotional Addiction.

Financial Dependency.

Even Spiritual Slavery.

I have seen all of these and more.

But here is what you must learn to understand...

To do nothing and expect the change you want is insanity...

And as long as you are enslaved...

It is not in the interest of the flea circus owner for you to know that you can escape.

So they will continue to tell you...

That you have no power...

That you must depend on them...

That there is nothing that you can do to change this...

But have you tried?

What have you done differently?

Are you actually powerless?

Or have you simply been groomed to believe you have no power?

Is your life actually unfair?

Or have you just been unwilling thus far to try to escape?

You may discover...

That there is no lid holding you back...

Only your lack of trying.


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