A place in the dirt.
The thing is i have this problem, i need to sink more in myself to express what i find. It has become a daily routine to discover my own ideas, my own thought patterns clearly expressed and most important expressed out there. I stare at the screen and i think to myself, hey this is what i've been thinking about for 6 months now but i've never been able to define it in words, it was just chaos in my head, and now, i see it in a movie.
The latest example is the third Zeitgeist movie. Lots of parts included in the first movie are bull, but there are some relevant and inovative good points taken in all the three movies, the latest being the most acceptable in terms of reason.
About a half of it is about the Venus Project. A world utopia. And i consider myself an obsessive utopian and further more i envisioned the world just as they describe it in the movie, of course without all that technical shit cause i don't know jack about engineering or constructions and such.
My utopia and implicitly that presented in the documentary is a world without nations, globalization, efficient distribtion of natural resources, equal distribution of production and far more important the eradication of currency, of money. Thus the elimination of a a overwhelming percentage of crime.
Due to the elimination of money and an equal and decent standard of living for all the people about 80% of reasons to commit crime dissapear. Robberies, killings, wars, discrimination due to social classes, abuse, violence they all dissapear by removing the reasons to commit them. All that could remain is rape and sexual related violence because the thirst for the body will not dissapear ever. Hopefully this will be removed through access to education and by cultivation of free thought and causality and moral conduct.
All that remains in terms of crime that seems unfixable is some people's natural inclination towards violence, in short, violence by human nature.
However i tend to believe that this too comes from social problems. Even if it's not so, could you say that by wiping 80% of crime reasons the world would not become a better place? A utopia of armony, free thought, kindness, progress, human bondage. The sky would seize to be the limit.
However there is another important aspect to this utopia. This aspect is the equal distribution of resources and production. We don't have this in capitalism, capitalism was built for greed. I'll give you a small example of my own for this:
In capitalism you have, you must have or know a local friend or just inhabitant of your city who drives a BMW. Further on your must have a local friend or inhabitant of the city who doesn't have money to feed his children. This is capitalism, the inequal chances to live, the inequal distribution of value. The man driving a BMW that we'll say costed about EUR 50.000 could of bought a Ford costing EUR 25.000. The remaining EUR 25.000 would of went to the poor man with starving children. That's equal distribution and human fellowship.
In the utopia, of course, much aided by the removal of money, the poor man wouldn't be required to expect the rich to give him his deserved part of Earth's resource and production. He will get the same amount of food as any other human being, he would get the same car, the same phone and virtually the same quantity of everything, a quantity meant to sustain life.
But in capitalism and in money based systems they don't care about this old shit called, help. No, because billionares have lots of money and they choose to keep them for themselves instead of giving it to his fellow human beings.
There is so much money you can have, but apparently, some think otherwise.
And it's a funny thing too. Cause they don't do shit with the money, it just sits in banks accumulating more money while a kid in Africa or Asia could buy food, they do have food there yes, but he doesn't have the money.
The sad thing is that it rips my heart apart to think that they've taken the Earth's resources, water and food being the basic, they called them theirs and now they expect money for it. Evey human being that is born on this fucking rock, is born with the right to live, to eat. Earth's resources are everybodys, they were here before we developed and we don't have the right to share them just among a few. It's either you exploit them and share them equally or you don't touch them at all.
That's the beauty of this utopia, Earth's resources which are free, and should be free to everyone, will be harvested and distributed equally to every living thing on this planet. And that's how it should be.
However optimist, i'm sorry to think that i'm gonna die in chaos and misery, already living in chaos and misery, a social inadequate person not due to the lack of social skills or social understanding but by choice. Let your own shit suffocate you, i'll have no part in it.
Of course one could ask how will people manage without money, how will they get paid. Well here comes the part which i didn't think about due to my lack of engineering and technical and technological knowledge.
Apparently mechanization is already used worldwide for production, irigation of crops and other stuff. I mean i saw so many new technologies that i couldn't believe my eyes. Satellite driven cars. Didn't see that one coming now did you?
Man wouldn't have to take a large role in production or agriculture. It would all be mechanized, and robots do it better and faster. So what would manking do all day?
Well how about enjoying life? As we should before some assholes decided to burden our existence with money, taxes and other stuff like that. Travelling the world, getting a proper education, evolving through science, maybe curing some diseases? I say there are lots of stuff to do, better stuff than 9-18 jobs. Yeah sure, one could call me a slacker. Indeed i am, but i have a reason behind it. It's not due to lazyness, it's because i don't agree with the system, and i don't see logic in it and i don't want to become a drone for a master controlling if i can afford to drink water.
I see myself sitting on a field of grass under a tree like Newton seeing something happen and saying, hey, what's this, the apple fell. What does this mean? Real thought, developing one's intelligence and knowledge. You could call me a silly 22 year old cotton candy little boy for believing that i do not contribute to the world by having a 9AM to 18 PM job and for not accepting to give out my life to a fucked up way of living.
I want to live free like i was meant to be, i want to go to an apple tree, pick an apple and eat it because the Earth provided it for me. Instead of this, they ask you to pay for that apple.
I want to see people living like people not like mindless, incarcerated, optionless drones. And i know most of them don't have a choice, heck, i have a job, it's not by choice, it's because i want to live. So they've taken all the choices away from you, except the choice to die. That's the beauty and the invisible line of democracy. You are free do die!
My heart aches when i buy food and leave the store with bags of food and after all some useless shit, unecessary shit like Coke or tons of chocolate and outside the store there's an old man begging for bread money. It makes me feel like a douchebag even though i'm aware it's not directly my fault. But i am an accomplice. However, i want change, i want an equal world, i want to stop seeing decay, i want to stop seeing the urban grotesque.
I want to see choosen decay.
I don't want to see hunger, blood, tears, uneducated mothers with their six months old offsprings outside in the blizzard begging for milk. I want to stop thinking that if i give that woman some money she will pay her pimp, so i buy milk and give it to her.
I would like to see people standing up and screaming their lungs out for a new way of life. But they are too weak, too abused, too hungry. And those who aren't any of those things, are the brainwashed ones. The ones who aspire to be just like the billionares, they aspire to be part of capitalism's 1% elite who are living a dream life on the backs of 99% of humankind.
I want to believe, i want to know that if God doesn't exist, at least we as a race lived a good life, we reached the end but we can look back with warm hearts and we can clutch death's arms with a clean conscience and spiritual enlightment.
However if you would die tomorrow and you would have that flashback sequence and the moment to think about your life, what would you think of it? I'll tell you what i would.
I would reach the conclusion that i've lived a meaningless life. I graduated from a high school, pointless, that's no real education. I studied at college level, but haven't finished it yet, i'm too sickened of it and of the environment. Some love tragedies, money earned and spent to live and to enjoy a bit of life and that would pretty much be it. I would have no reason to be proud of had been alive.
Now the other shoe drops. This is another fun part. The powers that be are aware of an important human aspect. Einstein once said that there is no power stronger than the compound interest. If i am allowed to disagree with him, i would say that the most powerful force is a man's desire to live implicitly his sense of self preservation.
And i'll give a compelling example. Yesterday i watched a documentary about homeless children living in Bucharest's subway station, Piata Victoriei in the year 2000. The documentary's name is Children Underground.
At its end they show a homeless girl called Macarena, who is sniffing paint on a daily basis, sleeping on cardboard boxes on the floor, and eating from time to time, telling that once a bodyguard threatened to shoot her.
Now comes her personal words, my eyes went wet. And no, i don't cry often, i haven't cried from love in over five years, it's other stuff that gets to me.
She said: "I don't want to die, i want to live." while sniffing paint.
With a full stomach, having a sip of Coke and smoking a Marlboro i would say fuck that, if i would ever reach that level of decay, i would want to die, i would commit suicide, i would do anything to escape it.
But it isn't so, and she proves it. Self preservation, the will to live is so strong that it cannot be comprehended. And i'm aware that if i would've switched places with Macarena i would say the same. No matter what, nobody wants to die.
Sure there are cases of suicides, suicides from different reasons. But these people are few. From 100 persons living poor lives only 5 would commit suicide. The rest of 95 want to live no matter what.
I'm sad to be alive, i'm sad i cannot change anything. If Hell exists, this is it. I'm sad humanity lacks humanity.
I'm sad people are quick to judge even though most of the times they don't know what the heck they are talking about. I'm sad to see that we are like in Waking Life, ants, buzzing away one from another. I'm sad i'm not immune to social influences. I'm sad to think that maybe one day i will have to admit my spirit's defeat and become part of "society", become "responsable" as some would say.
According to them being responsable is all about having a job and a useless degree. Feeble minds. How about the reponsability to others, to the animals who are inferior to us and need protection? The lack of empathy is gruesome.
Humans are racists and that's it, there can be no arguments here. Because animals are inferior we can kill them. But killing humans with Down Syndrome or other diseases, who are inferior human beings are not
killed, that would be the use of eugenics. Of course, why kill them, they are still human. A racist does not kill his own kind, no matter what.We could be so much more than this, but we can't, because we are the minority. The majority is made out of fools and ignorants.
And it saddens me that i'm my own minority inside a minority. It saddens me to map my brain on paper without having one for debates, one to apply with the Socratic Method.
And if you want to know really how much better the world could be, why change is needed, why capitalism is slavery? I'll use the power of example. Consider this:
Jonas Salk.
The dude who invented the polio vaccine. This dude discovered\invented the vaccine and he didn't know what the effect would be, he administered the virus on himself and then was the first one to test the vaccine, on himself and his family. Further more, he decided to give out the vaccine freely without seeking profit by selling it to major pharmaceutical companies.
This was his response to that inquiry: "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"
How can you not love people like that, and how can you not hate others.
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RăspundeţiŞtergerestii - eu simt cam tot ce "you emphasize" doar ca sunt intr-o stare de paralizie si parca nu pot actiona.
desi, "in us we trust" si poate se mai gasesc din acestia care "without a patent will free us from this huge sickness - obligation to be responsible for things we don't need to be".
anyway: grate thoughts you put down here.
sunt prea putini oameni care ar putea face schimbarea asta. si intr-adevar ar influenta ceva, dar nu ar fi schimbarea aia totala pe care ai vrea sa o vezi.
RăspundeţiŞtergereit would be too small. si nu poti aduna small cu small and make it big cause there so few great people.
si din pacate nici unul nu ajunge in postura de decision making. toti mor anonimi si saraci.