I don't really know how many people will actually care or read through all of this message, but I suppose if people choose not to then there is not really much I can do to persuade them otherwise. I simply hope it opens up the reader's eye to other things and can stimulate their minds---make them think. (but we all know how frowned upon this is today, right?). This a short passage basically and simply explaining and translating all of my thoughts onto one page. Please note that if you are only going to post here to contribute nothing at all to the original post, I kindly ask you to refrain from posting anything at all. This is a serious topic deriving from serious thought that I would hope deserves serious examination and discussion. I post it here because I feel this is the only place where it can be noticed, as MCSG has a massive amount and variety of members.
You see, my (rhetorical) question is, why is it that, in a way, this culture mostly all of us all live in, represents distinctly and clearly, the law of diminishing returns? Why is it that in a way this culture, this ever increasing, massive, technological culture, seems to promise the fulfillment of every wish almost at the touch of a button? At your very fingertips. Yet in many well known fairy tales, when the wishes materialize, they aren't material at all. They're false! Society simply states that a lifetime of work and persistence will award you with money. Money for what? For material gain of course! They say that these things will make you happy, and that if you play their little game, they will grant you with what you want.
A common misconception; the grandest and most inconspicuous lie that has ever been fabricated in recent times. Society and the world, fundamentally, give you the definition of success, more specifically: personal success. Participate in work, become married, bear children, follow fashion, act conformed, indulge in entertainment provided for you, follow all of the laws, and save money for your old age (We'll get back to that last one later). And it seems to me anyone and everyone who steps outside of this self induced comfort zone, is deemed as:
An outcast, a freak, a leper, an exile, an outsider, a stranger, a terrorist and are generally looked down upon by everyone else. Why? Simply put, because you were told what is normal, and how to react to and treat others disobeying it.
Although, I digress. The riches that we produce and manufacture for ourselves are nothing but a facade, a hope for solace, that in reality, only exists in our minds. We know this, of course, and as a result become ever increasingly frustrated. Terribly frustrated! So what do we do? In hopes we can fix this emptiness, we go out and buy more. iPhones, Androids, Computers, Televisions, Gaming systems---you name it! We consume more. And again as a result of our actions, the planet slowly transforms into what looks to be the nursery of a spoiled child who has too many toys and is bored with them, playing with them for a few minutes only to throw them out once more. Machinery and technology that gives a surplus has ultimately and ironically left us in want. We have developed transportation and vehicles that can travel faster than anything existing before it, yet we have shut ourselves in, and are progressing as a race slower and slower.
We crave this speed as well. We want to decimate "time". We want to decimate limitations. It seems as if no one has time for anything anymore. The way of life is accelerating at such an unnecessary and incomprehensible speed. We want to get everything down and done as quick as possible. We want to convert all of the skills of work into cash: cash you can buy things with (And so this is where we find ourselves once again on the topic of cash). We then rush to get home, to get away from work, in order to get to the real purpose and business of life itself: to enjoy it. Yet oddly enough it seems that for the majority of the population what seems to be the actual point of life---what you rush home to get to---is simply an electronic reproduction of life. Except it's even worse. For this life you cannot touch and smell and taste. It has no taste; none at all. You might think that the real purpose of life in a vigorous culture such as ours would be to return home to a banquet, love making, or a riot of dancing and music. But no, nothing of the kind! You see miles and miles of dark houses, illuminated only by the flickering glow of their screens. Everyone isolated, and thus in no real communion with each other at all.
This type of isolation of people into their own private world, only creates a mindless crowd. We as a people don't get together or congregate anymore, only for public expressions to rid ourselves of our hostility and natural bitterness. Football, and other competitive sports are examples of this, and it seems that even in the scenes shown on TV it is perfectly expected to see violence or the death of innocent people---but not people loving each other. Only in a restrained or restricted way, because a show where everything is all peaceful and tranquil it seems doesn't harvest or interest viewers, it doesn't make money for networks, no of course not. So in my opinion it seems perfectly reasonable to draw a conclusion that the assumption underlying this is the display of physical love is far more dangerous and outlandish than the display of physical hate, or anger. And it seems to me that that a culture or society that has this type of assumption, is devoted, even if unintentionally or subconsciously, not to the survival of life, but to the destruction of it.
-The_Great_Tito
(I read it all btw)
