This may offend some of you.
Good.
I am not in the business of sugarcoating reality. Those of you who know me, can attest to that.
Therefore, if you are easily offended, please, crawl back into your hole where everything is peachy keen and continue to lie to yourself that truth is not written in blood.
Also, know on your way back to your safety net, that in my humble opinion, you are below a human being, below an animal, and below the very dirt that covers the surface of this earth.
Why?
Because a coward does not have the characteristics of a human being. He has the characteristics of a leaf blowing in the wind. Blown in whichever direction the wind suits, this leaf will never choose it’s own path, it will never go against the breeze.
Even dirt, in the face of wind, eventually comes back and holds its ground.
A coward, does not.
So please, if you are a soft being, who does not want to know about the ” boogie monster” hiding in the closet, close your eyes and go to sleep, while the rest of us deal with the reality of the world around us. Thank you.
Now that that has been put out of the way, I would like to state my opinion on some things that I see in the world around me.
1. I see in the world around me herds. Herds of sheep. Numbering in hundreds of thousands. You are simply another number in the sequence. All one needs to do is step into a classroom nowadays, and they can be reassured that our future is at its ends.
Where have opinions gone? Where has contradiction been lost?
Since when have people decided “politically correct” is a must?
It is not.
And I see this in every classroom I take part.
The moment someone steps out of the boundaries, the scolding looks and controversial whispers arise.
Teachers have become dictators. Their authorities, no longer questioned. The information we are being fed, no longer questioned.
The ideals being provided, no longer questioned.
What the hell is wrong with you people?
When you were ten years old and someone told you the sky was purple, you looked up and assured yourself it was not.
Now, a teacher tells you that Capitalism is a good form of government, and you do not look it up.
You do not reassure yourself.
You simply nod and wait for your next assignment to be given.
When did you decide to leave your curiosity behind and simply accept facts that are handed to you?
When did you decide that educating yourself was no longer about learning, but about degrees?
When did you decide that a pipe was more important than a book?
When did you decide that a screen was more beautiful than the world that surrounds you?
When, goddammit?
Because if I remember correctly, we were not like this before.
We were motivated.
Motivated to understand ourselves, the world around us, and beyond.
We did not settle for bare necessities, and we did not accept anything less than perfection.
We ran as hard as we could to win a race, we thought as hard as we could to solve a problem, and we went as far as we needed to find an answer.
And now look at us, mere numbers in a sequence.
Manipulated only by those who know the formula.
No one cares to understand the formula anymore, no one cares to even know it, all they care about is obtaining the final result.
Forget the process that comes along with it, there are mathematicians who can do that.
Forget understanding the human body, there are doctors who can tell us what pills to take.
Forget making life decisions, there are “life coaches” who can advise you on your path through life.
A fucking “life coach”? Really? It’s absolutely repulsive what we have become.
Everything around us continues to develop, yet we do not develop along with it.
Our morals, the ideas of centuries ago.
Our traditions, unchanged since the middle ages.
The system in which we function, untouched.
Men still congregate and argue over who gets the bigger “loaf of bread” and how many other citizens they should tax in order to obtain more bread.
Our educations, decreasing beyond an exponential rate.
People used to give their entire salaries to learn how to read.
Now, people don’t even care to pick up books.
Libraries have become obsolete, book stores have closed.
As a spectator to all this, I cannot help but be outraged.
Not only with those around me, but with myself also.
I am no hypocrite. I too have fallen into this trap of ignorance often times. I’ve allowed myself to be detracted by the various forms of entertainment that exist to keep us distracted, but nonetheless, my eyes refuse to close. My eyes refuse to become blinded to the realities of what is becoming of the world around us.
I refuse to sit back and watch the slow decay of what truly is a beautiful creature.
You are a human being. Who can weigh out decisions, feel emotion, rationalize it, calculate it, compute it, exert it, understand it, and use it. Your every atom is a walking contradiction to the laws of physics. After thousands of years, we still do not fully understand how this machine of a body functions. And yet you wish to squander that potential by becoming another sheep in the herd and never questioning anything around you?
I find that extremely disappointing.
I find that appalling.
And I find it damn near ridiculous.
Do not allow yourself to become another number in the sequence.
Read. Learn. Understand.
Become something.
The technological beauty which lies in you cannot go unused.
Know everything, then question it.
Question it until the tree of knowledge no longer bears roots.
Learn until your knowledge outweighs your thoughts.
Exist until your life outweighs your time.
