Forget them

While I was in the training today I saw the news about the shooting massacre in New Zealand and, I wasn't really surprised. This is the sad condition the world is in now when events like this are so commonplace that they barely register emotionally, other than a shake of the head. Have I become desensitized to the sensational?

Tune into the news and the world is filled with "sensational events" even when it is no more important than some star having an affair or a singer cutting her hair. We as a society buy into the shill the newspapers spread and the polarization of views they breed.

Do you know the name of the shooter, their nationality, their hometown yet? Do you know what they had for breakfast, read some of their "manifesto"? Tell me, what do you know of the victims?

I haven't read the stories other than the headlines that scrolled through and they all focused on the shooter. I don't care who this sad fuck of a life is and I don't care why he did it as, isn't it obvious? It is because he is pathetic.

With the polarization that so many people seem so fond of, these events are becoming more and more common and, they are only going to get more extreme as, that is what these limp excuses of people require to feed their egos. I think this one even stayed alive. The desire to be recognized, to be famous, to feel important is growing and this generation crave the attention, seeking it like they all have daddy issues and not enough hugs.

Take another selfie.

Just like the warlords who hack off the arms of children and the terrorists that detonate bombs in the middle of tourist zones, everyone wants to draw publicity as after all, this is the world of the attention economy. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and all the rest love these events, love the hype, love the gore - and they feed off of the misery of other people's misfortune, drink their tears and sell the salt for profit. The news services are making their graphics, getting in their paid experts, "asking questions" as if they do not know the answers, that it is they that are to blame as the suppliers, and we as the consumers that keep buying into what the peddle on the corners.

This isn't about race, color or religion, they are smoke screens of culture set up to divert attention to what this is truly about, control. You want to control the people, make them fear.

In the past the process was to lead through violence, make the people fear the consequence but now, the fear can be generated en masse via proxy through the creation of enemies. Anyone different will do. To govern the people is easy, just make them fear and then offer a hand of protection, be their shield from the imaginary enemy. It doesn't matter what side of anything one falls on, this is the process.

Divide through polarization, conquer through a false hand of protection.
It is an old game.

Well worn yet still usable because we the people are too fucking stupid to put down the shit we are being fed and instead take it in by the spoonful as we all know, we are too smart to fall for such obvious trickery. Ha, look at who we vote for in this world, look at who we admire and respect, look at where we spend our time and, what we spend our money on.

Every decision we make is a purchase into something and this is where we are in the world today. You think you haven't played a role in it? You love the drama just like everyone else, you want to see your enemies suffer as long as you do not have to be the one who must live with the act of doing and, you want your group to win. At what cost are you willing to sacrifice the people you love for your cause? No, that is a price for others to pay, isn't it?

You hark of a better world while you light fires to burn it down. Pretty words are the most dangerous, the most influential, the most manipulative. But, you think you speak truth while poking sticks into the ribs of those you would see tormented, tortured and destroyed. And when they retaliate you claim it as proof of their evil, as reason for violence. Again, it doesn't matter what side you are on, they are all as bad as each other, just wearing different masks at the the ball.

Is the world ever going to change? Maybe, I don't think we are the ones who are going to do it, we are too ridiculous, too petty, too competitive, too greedy and far too self-important to consider what needs to be done and, how it needs to be done. We love ourselves to death.

This event is already being leveraged by the populists, already being used to sell the next course of shit that makes us fear and like the addicts we are, we will buy another spoonful tomorrow and shoot it into our eyes claiming, now we see the truth. We are all biased, all filled with programming of experience and desires for the future.

The truth exists - we are just too blinded by what we think to see it.

They say, "careful what you wish for."

This is the world of supply and demand.

Careful what you buy into.

 
The process of creation is thought, word action.* Ideas can find solutions to any problem, they are also the most dangerous tool we have at our disposal. You think you know what you say but, how do you act?

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]