The system of being, or being of system.
I’m doing this in English, just for fun.
Have you ever felt that you had so many thoughts, so many thoughts overlapping each other like, I don’t know, something that blends in with each other so that you can’t pick a single strand from the flock?...
I KNOW! Like candy-floss! Have you ever had thoughts that overlap each other like candy-floss?
I don’t know where to begin so I shall pick at random.
I have a thing with authority... I don’t like it. Never have, never will. I hate the idea of another human being telling me what I should and should not do. Because I am painfully aware that human beings, in general, don’t know shit.
This is not to say that I know shit, because I don’t, I just think about a lot of shit.
But I fucking hate when somebody behaves as if they KNOW, you know?
I’m also painfully aware that we are living in a system.
Now wait, because this is important,
I shall google the dictionary definition of a system, hold on...
System
[sis-tuh m]
Noun
-1. An assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex orunitary whole:a mountain system; a railroad system.
-2. Any assemblage or set of correlated members:a system of currency; a system of shorthand characters.
-3. An ordered and comprehensive assemblage of facts, principles,doctrines, or the like in a particular field of knowledge or thought:a system of philosophy.
-4. A coordinated body of methods or a scheme or plan of procedure;organizational scheme:a system of government.
-5. Any formulated, regular, or special method or plan of procedure:a system of marking, numbering, or measuring; a winning system atbridge.
-6. Due method or orderly manner of arrangement or procedure:There is no system in his work.
-7. The world or universe.
I’d like to point at number 3 for my own reasons (mostly ‘cuz I don’t quite understand 4-6)
[3. An ordered and comprehensive assemblage of facts, principles,doctrines, or the like in a particular field of knowledge or thought:a system of philosophy.]
We live within a system, a system of philosophy, it is called capitalism and it is widely regarded as the leading thought of economy at our point in time. We are capitalists, whether you like it or not.
We live in a system run by corporations. It’s not even a secret anymore that corporations are the ones funding decisions made in parliament. It’s a universal fact. It takes money to run for congress, president, parliament or whatever the fuck you want. For gods sake it takes money to move, eat, drink, entertain yourself and it even takes money just simply to exist! We are capitalists, each and everyone of us! Deal with it.
But I have a problem, but my problem is not with capitalism per se, it is with our need for a system. And I would like to tell you why.
Think about all the people alive right now, at this moment. How many do we count? I don’t know, I have no idea... it is actually irrelevant, BECAUSE how old can any person alive be right now? a 100? 113? 145? 200?
200 hundred years is actually not a lot. It’s about half a % to all the time the human being has been alive in a familiar form. We have existed for more than 2500 years... I’m not a scientist, I don’t know.
My point is, if you think about yourself and all the knowledge you yourself have, how many % of ALL human knowledge do you recon resides in your mind? Do you recon there is a human being alive that can actually contain all of this information? Do you think there is a human being alive that can retain 100% of all human knowledge? I’ll tell you right now that I would probably kill or maim myself to meet this person ‘cuz DO I have questions for that person!!!
We live within a system, where we have many individuals working together to create some sort of mainframe of being for us. People who tell us what to do and what not to do, but I wonder; do they know what it takes to be? Do these people have the knowledge to tell us what needs to be done, to be thought of, to be maintained?
I don’t think they do. I think that at some point in human history, we had the best and the brightest of us making our decisions for us but now we only have the most power-hungry of us making our decisions for us.
They don’t KNOW.
They have spent their lives trying to get in position of power! They haven’t wasted a moment to learn about the multi-faceted needs of a real world, of what the human being as a whole needs to accept, do or want to make to make a human civilization work.
They simply haven’t wasted a moment for that thought.
We live in a system that was invented in the last revolution, I am not quite sure which one that was, the industrial revolution? The french revolution? Is there a monetary revolution? No, I don’t know, I am only 29 and I wasn’t alive back then. But what I do know is that I am a semi-young person, living at the dawn of a new technology that has revolutionized the world I live in.
And I have no idea what to do with myself!
We are at an age where we have technology that is metaphorically PUMPING information into our brains but only at our own discretion, we have ALL the information of human kind at our fingertips at any given moment, we have the potential to learn whatever we want whenever we want and do what we want with it when we choose to do so. But we don’t... And that scares the crap out of me.
Why does, the human being, being as “FREE” as we believe we are, being as good as we think we are and being so smart as we think we are, why are we stuck in a rut?
Why are there not things happening in the real world that correspond with the IMMENSE technological achievements of our age? Why has my life not changed.... except in a capitalistic way?
I can buy technology that doesn’t last, to spend my time on mundane things while I go to school to learn things that will make me and others MONEY: If I don’t focus on making money then I shall pay dearly for that.
Believe me, I’m an artist, I know that I pay to make my life about other things.
Why are people still preoccupied with models? With “beauty”, with sex, drugs, rock and roll? Is it ‘perhaps’ because we live within a system, a system that is built for a certain thing? A system built to occupy it’s inhabitants with a certain empty “meaning”... is it perhaps because we are at a point of heavy evolution, where we have to actively SWITCH from one to the other because we are frankly at a point of evolution where we are self-aware? And self-responsible.
Do we perhaps need to make a personal decision, each and everyone of us, to move forwards. To realize that the system that holds us in chains, that tells us that some people deserve less than us and that some people are divine by inheritance is simply wrong. Can we evolve from capitalism?
I only ask because we have scientists. Have you heard of those guys? Hold on, I’ll find the dictionary definition of them... here’s the definition for science:
-1.a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws:the mathematical sciences.
-2.systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation.
-3.any of the branches of natural or physical science.
.-4.systematized knowledge in general.
-5.knowledge, as of facts or principles; knowledge gained by systematic study.
-6.a particular branch of knowledge.
-7.skill, especially reflecting a precise application of facts or principles;proficiency.
The scientists of this world talk about many things, I have a few things that preoccupy my mind, for instance global warming.
I don’t know about you, but global warming to me is the evil twin of capitalism. Every time I hear about one I think about the other.
-This- pretty much sums it up.
We live in an age where there is no one person alive that KNOWS what we are doing or where we are going, we have grand-parents and parents that had an idea and we are following them or we have grand-parents and parents that had NO idea at all where they wanted to go, but for some reason we are going, full throttle in the same direction that the instigators of capitalism wanted ( a 500 year old philosophy mind you.). We are behaving like zealots! Economic-Zealots! Power for Powers-sake. Like the West-borough baptist church!
I do understand why we do this. I really do. Because there is not one person in this world that is not just a human being. There are no deities or demons. There are only human beings. And as a human being I can totally understand where those in power are coming from. There is soooooo much security and comfort in power and money, it makes one person just a bit safer in the system. (The system btw practically begs you to eat the leg of your neighbor.) (The system that is about 500 years old btw). Before the internet, before wifi, before twitter and instagram. Capitalism is a system created in a brutal time where the resources JUST weren’t enough for everyone and education was gold.... meaning rare and meant for few. This is just not the case anymore thanks to the the internet and modern science.
But honey, YOU, yes you reading, times have changed. We live in a time where technology is moving at a pace you can barely comprehend, we live in an age where you can speak to a person on the other side of the world and show them your dick! We live in an age where we could have technology create a simpler, better world for each and everyone of us, in a world where anything boring and mundane could be taken over by a machine, where anything interesting and fun could be performed by everyone who would want it. It IS the golden age of the human intellect.
But we can’t be ignorant and enlightened at the same time. It just doesn’t work that way.
We need to cut our losses, we need an age of responsibility, of doing things right. Because if and only IF we do things right now, we can reap the benefits of living in a global, peaceful community with technology and all the earths resources at our fingertips. Only if we do it NOW.
We need to be US instead of “Who the fuck are these people”?!
I’m not surprised the developed world has to deal with depression, anxiety, suicide or any other mental illness, I wouldn’t expect any other reaction of spiritual beings living within a completely spiritually-inept system.
Kind people living within a brutal and corrupt (and out-dated) system.
We can do so much! SO MUCH! If we only accept ONE title. And that is “human”. Leave all others, nationality, gender, persuasion or what ever. Be human with all the other humans and we shall flourish.
Resist and... I’m not completely sure... but I feel I know that if we all resist. We we all will die. We simply will die... because we refused to evolve where and when we needed to. We will die. That is the only thing I’m sure of, if we keep hate, xenophobia, homophobia, zealousness, arrogance, anger, fear.... we die.
These things distract us from the global needs. They blind us from the killing bullets we shoot at ourselves.
It’s just the way it is.
So I beg you, on my knees, as a person who would kill or maim myself for a better future. As a person who doesn’t want to hate anyone and who really want’s to know and do a lot of stuff, as someone who wants to see all the world and be a human being of the world. I just want to see it all. I beg you. Evolve! Be more, be who you are and let others be, love the life you are given and let others love it as well, don’t expect too much and MOST OF ALL do not sacrifice yourself for human systems that are out of date.
Have rational thought,
have your own thought.
Be, Love, Live and be excited.
If you are not, there is something terribly wrong.
Let’s just PLEASE make something more out of our world.