Sometimes I feel like all of this is a bad dream. I sometimes wonder if I am being punished for a crime I didn’t commit. Sometimes I wonder if this is some sort of bizarre proving grounds where if I survive, I will be admitted into Shangri La. Is it a test from God or Alla? Is it a test of karma? Did I perform poorly in a previous life, and have I been condemned to survive early 21st century Earth as a human?
It just feels like we should have progressed further than this. It feels like this is some sort of feudal society where kingdoms have been replaced by corporations and surfs have been replaced by humans in cubicles. The setting has changed, but not the nature of things.
When I was younger, I thought we didn’t get along because we couldn’t communicate. Well, we now have amazing translating devices, and we still don’t get along. This leads me to believe it’s because we choose not to get along. We are comfortable with the status quo of fighting and being at odds with one another. I mean, when have we ever been at peace?
I work with a bunch of old white guys who think they are smarter than everyone else. They make a lot of money, and they are used to telling other people what to do. I feel like they are the dinosaurs even though they think they are phoenixes, you know…rising from the rubble as an awesome creature. The truth is they are tearing things down and creating the rubble.
They think it’s cool to dismiss people and stop them mid-sentence to exert their power and superior knowledge. Well, I am hoping this mindset is changing. I am hoping the young generation gets to evolve and find strength in cooperation and fresh ideas. I hope the knew strength is the ability to synthesize ideas rather than shut them down.
What do I know. I only make 1/10 what they do. I drive a 10-year-old car that needs constant upkeep. I live in a garage that has been renovated into a studio apartment.
I don’t know what the future holds, but this…this corporatism. It must end. It’s simply another disguise for the rich owning the slaves. The function and dynamics haven’t changed, only the vocabulary.
For those of you in other countries. I can’t explain America right now. I would like to wave a white flag of peace. I am willing to admit we messed up and surrender to your terms. That is the least we can do considering the global damage we have done over the last 50 years…and, especially, over the last 1.5 years. It is our turn to admit defeat and wrongdoing and atone for our destruction.
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