About the "Social Commentary" category
Social Commentary
How we will become slaves. May 12, 2008
- There is an force on society, which is sufficiently intelligent, and powerful enough to influence us to leave our morals behind, this is allowed so that:
- there will be chaos, and in the midst of chaos there will be a new world order come to bring peace, but:
- for this peace we will be forced to give everything.
- Law and justice is not always perfect, and yes it is terrible when innocent people suffer because justice fails, but if justice is not DEFINED, QUICK, POWERFUL TO POINT OF DEATH, AND TRUSTED, our whole society will pay a price, a very high price:
- Before we discuss this in detail we should have a look at what is happening in our society:
- What is jail meant to be? Less trust, higher walls, more surveillance, more security personnel, less personal liberty.
- What is society meant to be? More trust, less walls, less surveillance, less security personnel, more personal liberty, less crime!
- What is happening to Jail? More trust, lower walls, less surveillance, less security.
- What is happening in our society? Instead of criminals being punished for what they do, we are all being punished. Instead of prisons put into society, our society is being put into prison. We are forced to lock ourselves in our own homes while criminals roam the street free and put fear into our lives, not only that; we are the ones that shoulder the burden of being subject to extra security checks and protocols everywhere we go, being trusted less, paying more for consumables because of crime, and we are the ones being treated like numbers, being forced to invasions of privacy and screening.
- There was a time when the world had justice and liberty, since then our justice has drastically changed, it is barely recognizable, and now is anyone afraid to commit crime?
- There are two types of control, self control, and external control, Instead of self control, humans are controlled externally, Instead of managing crime now, the beast has decided to manage us by taking our liberties one by one, not so that we don’t want to commit crime, but so that we can’t even if we want to. How far will the loss of our freedoms go? When will it stop? When there is perfect peace and no crime? How many rights and freedoms do we have to lose before it’s all lost? They say it’s for our good, but how many more terrorist attacks or domestic crimes will it take for us to submit our freedoms to the beast? Will the beast not demand ALL OF OUR LIBERTIES for peace?
- Once we give all our liberties over in return for peace we have essentially given our minds and bodies over to the beast, this is the actual definition of worship.
- Of course we won’t go to worshipping the beast right away, full control will happen slowly, one step at a time, like slow boiling a frog, we won’t notice the heat rising, being locked down unable to move.
- Becoming a police state is not the biggest thing we should be worrying about, a police state is free compared to what is coming because police can’t be everywhere at once, what is scarier is the omnipresent surveillance and omnipotent control methods being invented now that will be ready for the time we are under full control.
- This full control is all in the name of peace, but how peaceful is being under full control?
- There is only one hope; that doesn’t involve an Orwellian style locking down of all citizens, the only hope that we can have peace with any civil liberty remaining, is for all citizens to have fear within them, a FEAR of punishment and repercussion. A common, fair and equal code of this fear known to all citizens is known as MORALITY.
- Morality is mostly taught, by example and punishment for acting immorally.
- A revival of morality is our ONLY HOPE, and one of the only tools of inducing this morality is JUSTICE, but presently justice is becoming more impotent.
- The type of justice which is most effective is called corporal punishment (the word comes from latin corpus, which means the body), it is where physical pain is bestowed upon offenders, it is the cheapest, most effective form of punishment known to man, yet we attempt to use less effective methods, methods which give justice little power.
- Morality and justice is lacking because justice has become impotent for these reasons:
- Courts are too afraid of repercussions when judgements are wrong.
- The cost of policing, justice, and jails, is seen as too expensive.
- Corruption may be involved.
- The immorality system actually preserves its self by means of:
- Actually turning the tables and outlawing free-speech against immoral practices
- Injustice and immorality are a cycle, ie: justice in the hands of immoral people will become injustice, and injustice, enables immoral people to thrive, and moral people to be overtaken.
- People are afraid of what happens if an innocent person is punished. Criminals are seen as too precious, fragile and important to society.
- There is an force on society, which is sufficiently intelligent, and powerful enough to influence us to leave our morals behind, this is allowed so that there will be chaos, and in the midst of chaos there will be a new world order come to bring peace, but for this peace we will lose everything.
- Capitalism is the strongest force in our society, and the highest ordered entity is the corporation.
- Corporations are the highest ordered entities in society, yet corporations are not required to have moral conscience, to survive in society, moral conscience is the first thing to be shed.
- It is becoming imperative that citizens in society, to survive, must either work for a corporation, or go into business in direct competition with corporations, if corporations are required to have no moral conscience, then for a citizen to either join, or competing against a corporation successfully, morality and conscience must be shed by the citizen also.
- We are living in a world which is mathematically against morality, justice, and conscience, yet has an imperative for peace, the only thing that remains is external control over humans, this is how we will all become slaves.
Skimming stones April 19, 2008
If you love the water but she be too cold. Stay skimming stones til ye be bold.
International Noncommerce week / no class party. March 3, 2008
If anyone reading this has actually gone without money for any extended period of time, it’s a changing experience - one realises (after the initial sacrifice) that theres something great about it. With it comes a realisation of how the corporate world has wrangled every human pleasure or need into a situation where you need to hand over cash for it. For instance the basic human needs such as water, going to the toilet, and a place to sleep (a piece of earth, not a roof over the head) is now a chargable experience; furthermore if we manage to escape these charges the corporate beast has made every social situation into a pay situation… I am talking how advertising has created a social pressure to eat here, sleep there, wear this brand, and drive this car. It’s a liberating experience to feign the pressure to worship this beast. F£ck the beast. Its great to actually just live humbly, eat healthily (no not poshly) and focus on survival and interacting with others by gratuity of a great personality (not the fashion choices), and smile. People we don’t need to spend money, we can just fill eachothers needs. I propose an international week of living non commercially, and a celebration without classes, with no fashion to distinguish the classes, where not a cent is spent, and everyone just gets on… why not?
Relationship quotas December 20, 2007
Everyone has a relationship quota, Its a need inside us, it’s how much we need to relate to others. It’s governed by how much we can give in relationships. We will fill this need any way we can, as soon as we can usually because lonlieness is bad, and communion is good - but is that the best way?Most of the time we interact with people, we fill our quota on those that cross our path, and those we are lucky enough to interact with; this is a passive relational method, what we should be doing is filling our daily/weekly relationship quota with people we select with our minds before our hearts get involved. We want to select friends who have the characteristics we desire, I call this an active relational method. For we don’t just want what we get do we?
Attribute Goals
A way of doing it is write a list of goal attributes in the type of people we want to interact with, and give them points. eg charity worker 50 pts; likes the colour green: 20 points etc, and score ourselves each week on how many relationship points we gain, so that we actually seek the people who will give us more points. As a result of this we will end up with more meaningful relationships.
Depth
That’s great surely but 1 effective relationship is better than 1000 innefective ones?
To add to this method we could score on how far we progress relationships with measurable goals , eg shared a cup of coffee, 5 pts, hugged 10 points, gave me money 20 points, you would multiply the attribute goals by the depth to get your score.
Fast track to trust and depth in relationships
“If we never ask of our friends we will never know them.”
Me: Just then.
Why don’t we fast track relationships by asking for more from our friends - sound weird? While most of us are independent that we don’t need anything at all; needing and being needed is what all relationships are about, so naturally if we can speed up the cycle of needing and being needed, we can speed up the depth of a relationship. It doesn’t matter what we ask for or that we can fulfill our own needs, the important part of asking others is that it’s a building block of trust, and we will have a platorm of tested trust in reserve before we need to rely on it. We can judge where the relationship is at by what requests our friends fulfill for us. It doesn’t matter what we ask for, as long as it’s relevant to our needs and we can assign a score to it. As soon as the need has been fulfilled, we should return the favor ASAP to complete the cycle and build on the trust, then we will have a deeper/stronger relationship because there has been trust, tension, and release/fulfillment between the parties in another cycle. The important part here is keep short accounts or it will backfire. This method needs to be started small. A great place to start is just requesting a conversation with somebody, and rewarding them with entertainment, a joke or a listening ear, start there and build it.
Social structure is lacking. November 26, 2007
The reason why politics and capitalism is taking over, people are more tied to their jobs than their families, and humanity is being dragged around by the corporate engine is that there is no social structure in place anymore to anchor people. Look at what Baden Powell created in the Boy Scout movement and see that people need more social structure than what is normally assumed in our life.
Guerilla Socialite October 14, 2007
When you are in someone’s presence and you think you aren’t communicating with that person you are wrong; you are always communicating; you are most likely communicating indifference.
I noticed a blatant mass social indifference years ago whilst on bulk public transport. On the journey I tried to catch someones (anyones) eye, and failed for the whole journey, I suddenly felt alone and very angry realising just how ignorant and indifferent people can be regarding others around them. Fast forward a few years and I am in the same situation, seeing the same thing in myself, and now I realise that as well as being bad, I see that it’s timeless and that it can affect anyone.
What is with it, walking down the street not locking eyes with anyone? Do we think we’re that much better than other people? Or is it that we are too scared to interact? Surely we are smart enough to converse or at least look at a stranger and some good to come of it?
People are ugly like faces of rock, but beneath rock faces are gold mines waiting to be tapped. We need open minds to open mines! Think of all the social networking that could be done in transit; why is the rush hour such a social void? Imagine all the people that we pass by every day without so much as blinking an eye lid, they could be potential counselors, friends, even the love of our lives, but do we chose to communicate? Not actively, we choose the stony faced communication of ignorance and indifference which is hurled upon everyone we see, It screams at everyone we pass by: I DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU to everyone, including perfectly matched acquaintances, business partners, friends, or lovers. The losses are frightening, and it’s very sad.
I think I hate indifference, and ignorance, It’s like a cancer in society, it’s killing us by cutting us off from vital resources that others around us provide us, and becomes increasingly comfortable to live with, so far as to say that it’s an addiction, like a dying smoker choosing to inhale nictotine as their last comfort in their last breath.
The resources it cuts us off from are tremendous, but humans still have needs, so corporate giants pick up on our voids, and through mass marketing they portray their venues, products, or services as organised, socially acceptable temples of interaction - and it works; these contrived, and inorganic places, products and services become our only channels of acceptable socialising. The ironic part is that when we snob free and organic interaction and choose corporate temples we are taxed - heavily taxed, we are taxed by entry fees to sociable places, consuming sociable portions of social products, by viewing sponsored advertising in social places, and more blatantly on the internet, by actually paying extortive amounts to contact others. We lose out on the most valuable resource:time by ignoring others organically in times where they are abundant, and embrace people when they are few, and expensive in contrived temples. If we opened our eyes, smiled, and spoke to strangers we would get to know people faster, and more organically, rather than all the contrived ways under the sun to get us to interact. We would find new business partners, trade ideas and find love, we would find these things, share these things, receive these things, and give these things, why are we not doing it?
Western Citizens as a whole have almost no social aptitude. Western Citizens are the most socially inept on the earth. We need desks to hide behind, names, masks, uniforms, badges, goods, places, services, titles, and brands, and will only act towards other in one particular way in one particular fasion, and we ignore others any other time. It’s not because it’s not socially acceptable It’s because it’s just not comfortable, first, we would have to get noticed, which would imply being different than others, then we may have to deal with the inevitable rejection in front of others, then we would have to be charismatic enough to hold someone’s attention, then we would have to be honest enough to express our needs and not exaggerate our strengths in order to network on our level, then there is always the chance that our stranger is dangerous, a bullshitter or a con-person, and we would have to be strong at detecting, and dealing with it….and it all becomes too much, and hence we shut everyone away. I still don’t think it’s good enough.I have decided I’ll come up with a few pointers to help motivate us to interact with strangers.
- Realise that we are always communicating, and when we are in a persons presence, any time we think we aren’t communicating, we are probably actually communicating indifference.
- Think of what you really want in life, imagine there is someone in the room who has it, not to be selfish but do onto others as you would have them do unto you.
- Even if there is no-one obviously interesting before you; think of all the lost opportunities in your life because you lacked so much confidence or charisma that you couldn’t bring yourself to smile or talk to that one person. Now with uninteresting people think of it as practice… you will learn, and as you give so it shall be given.
- Don’t be afraid of seeming different, successful people are not the norm, it is not average to be envied, if you have the guts, take it in your stride, lap it up.
- Learn to deal with rejection, often, and over small things that don’t matter, that way when an inevitable large rejection comes, you will be prepared. Those with risk free, mundane lives are rejected too, and as they don’t risk unimportant things its mainly only big things that they get rejected for, and to add to that: it’s harder for them to take because they never learned how.
- Honesty: A covered bucket can’t be filled, let your needs be knows, its as simple as that; exaggerating is no help to yourself in the long run, an poor honest person asking will soon overtake a wealthy bragging, because his needs are actually being filled, this does not apply just to monetary needs but any lackings.
- Don’t be afraid of bad people It’s only social interaction, you won’t be asking anyone to marry you or join your company at first. Learn how to judge character early when the stakes are small; bullshitters, con-artists, and dangerous people won’t get away with much in a social setting, and you will be gaining skills for your whole life, in learning to deal with these.
In conclusion, don’t just interact with people with the lights are green, and it’s the right setting; become a guerrilla socialite, gain results in any setting, and when the strangers become acquaintances, don’t leave them on your contact list to rot, keep communicating until they are friends, and as for enemys - sometimes peace is just an understanding away, which could be a communication away.