Honest, Not Uplifting
Tonight, as I was looking at my Facebook, I was struck by an epiphany. As if my eyes were opening for a second time. And I saw right through the fake allure of it. The smoke and mirrors and the shiny dangling keys that were everything pop culture wanted you to indulge in. And I thought instantly of every picture I’d ever seen or any headline or article I’d ever read that depicted a poor country suffering from genocide, disease, and in general the really short end of the friggin’ stick. Or of a business being taken to court over monstrous acts, which usually devastate a large demographic of innocent people. Who they claimed they were “trying to helpâ€Â when they were really just being manipulative, greedy, and will probably get away with it anyway. I felt as if for a split second, I had woken up from the hazy mind vice that is the neon lights, bright colors, and hypnotizing eyes staring back at you. And I began to dream.
I dreamt with my eyes open. I dreamt I wanted to live in a world where I could throw my laptop out the window and nobody would care. Where I knew everybody’s phone number by heart, and I could just crack my smart phone in half because I didn’t need it. Where I wasn’t troubled by the Internet, because it never knew I existed. No, I didn’t want to live in the 60′s or 70′s. I just wanted to live in a simpler world. Without confusion, without chaos, without senseless death or useless greed. Without corrupt men in ties who run businesses that pay for the destruction of our planet, our home, and every living thing on it. Without fanatics who cannot hear reason, cannot speak without yelling, and cover-ups, falsities, or bullshit propaganda. Where people give a damn. Where people are aware.
I dreamt of a world that was true. That had a chance at existing. But something about everything this generation has accomplished, for good and bad, something about the path Man has chosen dictates to me, quite clearly, that somewhere down the line we missed the turn. Missed it by a long shot. I hold back tears when I read this over, because I got one of those feelings, you know? One of those feelings that as much as we do, as hard as we try to right all the wrongs, to make everything right, as hard as the good fights against the evil, it just won’t be enough somehow. Not in my lifetime, probably not even in the next. . .
Please, do your generation, your planet, yourself a big favor; read the newspaper, know your history, watch the news. Know what’s happening. Please. Please. Please. Don’t feed the machine. If nothing else, it’ll make you a much better person. Help you help the World help you.
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This reads like poetry, great blog post
Great blog!. We always dreamed of a better world but in the real world has always been wars. Dreaming as a change that better!
This way of thinking would greatly help on the African continent.
I agree 100%. Really it reads like poetry.
A nice post of worldly thoughts. It is almost poetry but more like deep thinking.
Thanks for this wake-up call. Your dream is shared by many.
Nice post I like reading with it:)
Nice post. I appreciate you taking the time to write about this topic. Greatly appreciated.
All of us wanted a simple world to live in where there is peace, love and justice. But still we can’t truly have these things because war occurrences can’t be stop. Everything you said really is only a dream.
That kind of thinking is so rare nowadays.
When I first read this, I thought it’s a poem. Love this post.
This is very great. Such a nice read.
Wow, that is great, thanks for sharing!
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Sounds like life on a deserted island. There would be no technology, no neon lights, no advertising! sounds like a vacation!
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I’m always busy with work to really take time to read this. I work in the business securities industry. We help private companies go public.
Great blog!. We always dreamed of a better world but in the real world has always been wars. Dreaming as a change that better!
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You sound to me like you’re pumped up with bullshit propaganda. Our fine educational system, no doubt.
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I was just laughing the other day with friends when we were talking about how we couldn’t call anyone if we lost the numbers in our cell phones ! Great down to earth post, it seems sometimes it would be a better world if we could lose the technology.
What a wonderful heartfelt post. Do not despair. You are not alone. There are millions of people in this world who think as you do. I found comfort reading the book Celestine Prophesy many years ago. In it the author put forth the concept that there is a critical mass of people, that is building on this earth, who are aware of the factors that you speak of and who are prepared to act to remedy them.
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Nice post, I like your style. Don’t sell your birthright for a mess of pottage (as Knut Hamsun would have said, and nearly did in ‘Hunger’)
Your concern and compassion for humanity screams from this page.
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I worry that it is already too late. Newspapers are heading towards extinction and not just Facebook, blogging is also adding to the problem (ironic isn’t it?). Your post is great but I worry that in their dying days the newspapers are getting so much of their “truth” from bloggers who often turn out to be complete fakes themselves. So while I fully agree with your exhortations, it is probably too late to get what you and I long for from newspapers.
Also your post gives me some very interesting thoughts which I will share here hopefully. Thanks.
Sometimes too much information just becomes a lot of BS. Media via print is now more sensationlised in order to compete with applications like twitter, facebook and other similar application on the internet! unfortunately technology is big money so it’s not going to go away, we can however refrain from allowing all that technology to overwhelm our life style. Always make time for some of the simple things in life, a good read be it a book or the local news paper can be quite relaxing. Make Time!
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