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Have you ever contemplated about how this life works? How aspects and elements of life cooperate with each other to create and run a system? What is the system of life? How does it work? If you've questioned those stuff, then i think this post might be interesting for you.
Well, i've been contemplating this idea lately. Especially when i'm in the bus or commuter line train. I observed those people in public transportations, streets, offices, malls. What actually do they do? What makes them do the same thing everyday; going to work on weekdays, going to clubs at night, going to malls on weekends? What aspects that bind them so they're willing to do those things? Who gets the most benefit from them doing those stuff?
After questioning those things to myself, i took my phone out of my pocket and accidentally played Slipknot's first ever demo called 'Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.'. And in a flash of seconds, i thought that demo is correlated to my questions. I thought i can answer those questions using the title.
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| Slipknot's first ever release 'Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.' (1996) |
We can breakdown that animalistic behaviour of us into 4 aspects, related to the demo's title; Mate, Feed, Kill, and Repeat.
Mate
Sex and social interactions. What do we see everyday? Sexism and hedonism. Teenagers, adults, even senior citizens, they watch porn all the time and go to clubs every night. Do social interactions with stupid chit-chats, get drunk, and end up having a one night stand sex. Is that what we called 'humanity'? And it occurs every night around the world, even in my 'religious' country Indonesia with its hypocritically-religious politicians, celebrities, hedonists, and the other social cancers.
Social media is one of the greatest inventions of all time. It creates a virtual, and a bit imaginary social stratification. Through social media, we compete to show off everything. The ones who frequently show off the most prestigious, expensive shit are the winners. In the name of the top position of imaginary social stratification, imaginary social status, imaginary pride and prestige, we enslave ourselves. Worshipping compliments, worshipping the state of being envied.We'd rather be haunted by debts than being incapable to show off, which is a very ignorant thing. We show off contrived intelligence. We try hard to look smart and critical by using complex academic words, liking and retweeting issues that we actually don't understand about. In other words, we wanna look smart and we want the others look stupid.
We are victims of destructive, capitalistic ideas spreaded by all kinds of media; social media, movies, TV and radio shows, books, literatures, advertising. Trust me. This world and our lives are controlled by a few powerful, egocentric people who want us to die young and kill each other, who want us to be stupid, apathetic, consumtive animals. They want to depopulate earth. They want us dead. Go read about the New World Order and elite's depopulation agenda.
Feed
The European Association for The Study of Obesity shows that 65% of the world’s population live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight. We feed ourselves to death. We are killed by our gluttony. The food industry's corporations are the ones who take control of the world's economy. And they're also the ones of those elites who control the world.
Through media and advertising, they persuade us to consume their products everyday. Junk food; their expensive, unhealthy, even deadly products. They merge their products and lifestyle. They plant an idea to our minds that the more we consume their products and show it off, the higher social status we get. McDonald's, Coca-Cola, chips, chocolate bars. We see those shit in movies. We see celebrities, supermodels, actors and actresses consuming those shit.
Have you ever intended to imitate celebrities? Do what actors and actresses do in the movies? Pretend to be one of those anorexic celebrities? Consider this life as a movie with a happy ending? Well, if so, you've been successfully brainwashed. You may not realize this, but after you've been 'bombarded' by their ideas, there's a part of your mind that tells you to feel like celebrities everytime you consume those shit. We are raised watching Hollywood shit. Everyone wants to be American. We end up hating our own country, our own culture, our own food.
Who gets the most benefit from all of those eating and consuming stuff? Well i guess you know the answer.
Kill
"Make love, not war!" originally came from an anti-war slogan in 1960s, mostly expressed by hippies. That phrase is still being used by people nowadays to establish world peace. But let me ask you a question. If there's no war, who would buy guns? A research by State Fish & Game Departments, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, IRS reveals global firearm sales statistics. It reveals that based on total average yearly production, globally, guns and ammunition manufacturing annual revenue is 11 billion U.S Dollar. Can you imagine that? Corporate capitalism makes us ignorant, eat shit, consume everything, and kill each other. So, no wonder why we can't stop wars.
The war itself is manufactured by those elites. They produce hate that leads to wars. They produce controversial issues; terrorism, racism, zionism, neo-communism, LGBT, etc. They create a thesis and an antithesis in the other hand. They generate bombings, demonstrations, conflicts, genocides, homicides, attacks, etc. They construct everything that requires guns, ammunitions, explosives, and deaths of millions, even billions of people
Meanwhile, we kill each other, metaphorically, in social media. We post contents, give responses and comments in order to drop each other's reputation, assassinate each other's character, try hard to be superior, try hard to look smart, try hard to make the others look stupid, and the other stupid attempts. Believe it or not, there's an invisible hand who tries to disintegrate us.
Repeat
In the name of money, fame, and fortune, we keep repeating those shit. They keep renewing issues. Al-Qaeda becomes ISIS. Bush becomes Trump. We're trapped, actually. We would be stigmatized as a weirdo if we don't hang out at clubs, bars, restaurants, if we don't have social media accounts, if we don't consume junk food, if we don't conform. To me, it's quite okay as long as we don't mess with their rights. Cause nowadays it's all about rights and freedom, right? To me, being a freak non-conformist means having a free soul.
Now let me repeat the question. If we constantly do those shit, who gets the most benefit from it?
