The Strings:
Each responsibility or liability or prejudice or presumption is a string. Pulling You (Self) in one direction or another. Only for the most part, The Strings in 1st World Consumer Nations are pulled by falsehoods or lies or vested interests. Instead of being pulled by a string you yourself have set up and you yourself pull or a relative or loved one pulls we are now pulled by commercials, culture morals, social norms, the status quo, education, jobs, brands, prestige that were set up by not Us the Individual but by Particular Few who made Our World, here in this nation here on this land here on this planet here in the solar system here in this galazy here in this universe. But before we can understand The Strings we have to understand what the Earth is, a planet inhabited by animals plants fungi and then we have to understand that our culture is a destructive culture (masochist even) and it’s all in the head (of billions – because with the pop. Booming that means that more and more children are learning the culture longer and longer) but it’s a lie, our culture, a lie not forced into our brains because it does not have to force itself into our minds any longer, all that we see and hear while were in The Synthethic Culture, we are always immersed in it. We don’t even realize we are in a destructive culture because we are completely unaware of it like breathing? Or walking on the ground (because when you are walking on the ground you are more aware of walking then of the ground) So, The Strings are a metaphor for the New Agents of persuasion. Having a job means following orders from your boss, listening to your co-workers, customers, policies, rules, Thank You Come Again, Have A Wonderful Day are all strings not as influential but very much influenced. Buying a car means leases, means having to set money aside for the payments, means not doing what you want to do, means more responsibilities for something Synthetic Culture approved and invented. We are now pulled in certain directions by adverts, trends, fashion, culture to believe this or to believe that. We are no longer free we are merely puppets unaware of their strings. What would a puppet unaware of The Strings think about him(her)self?
The Strings get so wound up and myriad that by the end of your life, you really can’t say YOU lived YOUR life but The Strings lived it for you and you were just along for the ride. Walking on the Ground.
Freedom.
Humans strayed off the path in Sumer, w/ the invention of agriculture of working year round to harvest to settle in one place. (what if boredom or at least bad cases of it started after we settled down?
We need to experience the world because we are a part of it and because we can.
Originality an endangered species?
So many choices to choose from why make one up. W/ all the information going through the ether, just there for the us to snatch, is there a point to originality anymore? We can all be something that has already been proven to work out. That people like and people are used to. If not all people some people, who are aware of that side of originality. But, when ideas become accessible to just about everyone, and information started to coagulate in the human collective there was no need for us as human to strive to be original. Originality was out there, already just waiting for us to emulate it. Now, we have tens of thousands Buddhists, billions of Christians, thousands of this or that. And, in my opinion, it’s getting worse because our archetypes are getting dumber and plainer and two dimensional. The next generation’s lineup will be Hannah Montana, Zoey 101, High School Musical’s cast; now, since our generation was a bunch of imitated originals, our next generation will be imitations of imitations. Until, the human race detaches itself completely from nature and the human spirit and attches itself to it’s culture and society and television identities. We are the Generation of Imitations.
That’s quite original; not at all plagiarized. Good luck developing it into something publishable.







#1 by Mag M at February 25th, 2010
That’s quite original; not at all plagiarized. Good luck developing it into something publishable.
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