For years I have been talking to people, being laughed at, told to bite my pessimistic tongue, all is well. Is it though? We are being hacked, we are being programmed, we are being bred for one purpose, to become stock, cattle to feed the corporations, the governments.

At what point do we wake up? At what point do we take a step back from our food trough and objectively look at what we are doing, what we are creating and what we are failing to create?

I was handed this video a few moments ago and asked if I could write a little about it. Yes, but I do not know where to start, the problem is so big, it has its fingers in all the pies and all the lies, it controls most minds. Play it from around 21 minutes, Just slow down, take 10 minutes and listen.

Does he sound crazy, does he seem like someone who is unhinged, out of control, confused, uneducated? He joined Facebook at about a year in and was tasked with onboarding. How'd he do?

We have a problem in this world, we have a problem at every level. We are being programmed to consume what we are fed, to spend our attention where we are told to look, and enjoy what we are wired to enjoy and triggered to hate. We have been trained to ignore the largest and most valuable infiltration of all, the hack of society, the hack of culture, the global hack of us.

We spend our time worrying about who wore what, who slept with who, who lied, who cheated, who is famous, the new show, the new movie, the must have games and fucking cryptokitties. Do we really not have anything better to do? Are we really so brainwashed we do not recognise the actual state of our existence?

We have been engineered to worry about the mundane, to turn away from the issues that affect us to spend our time immersed in entertainments that offer no value past limited pleasure. We are constantly manipulated to chase another trend, buy another product, invest our time and energy into something that creates nothing for us, but funnels value to those who already hold it. This is not a dystopian future, this is the present and it is only going to get worse.

People arguing over the semantics of climate change but so few doing anything about actually affecting it. You think they are, you can name some? Elon Musk perhaps? Yes, perhaps, while the conglomerates spread FUD, raise legislation, close loopholes with the money we invest into them. We fund them to screw us over.

The earth is being polluted and we are it, we are the polluters yet what of clean up? You really think recycling a few bottles are going to make that difference while industrial sludge pours by the tonne into waterways around the world?

2 Billion to make a movie, 30 million for a star to act in it, 5 million for the theme song all while cancer researchers are struggling for funding, trying to save your life or that of your loved ones. 20 million on digital cats, with their only good being that they pointed out Ethereum's scaling deficiencies. There must be better solutions, right?

Yes. The world is a mess, cultures are a mess, society is a mess. What is your part in all of this? What is my part? Our part? Perhaps you are a technological wizard looking to create the next killer app, is it going to clear the air, provide fresh water, make clean energy? Unlikely, those issues are just out of our control.

Even if we want a better future for our children, we don't have the capabilities to create it, we don't have the capital. And very few of those who do have the resources want to spend it on a long shot that benefits us all. It is not the way they are made. Laziness.

Those with the capital are too often greedy, those with the desire to help are too unwilling to act strongly enough. Both are too lazy to find out if there is a better way, a way where we can together create solutions to what actually threatens our lives, our communities, our existence.

Instead, we wait and hope that someone else will do it, those smart engineers, the brilliant doctors, the scientists the priests, Imams and Rabbis. While we play our games, watch another episode of a brainless series, laugh at another meme. And we think that those that can will, but they are brainwashed too.

They aren't solving the problems that face us, they are solving the problems they can capitalise on, the ones that have market potential, the ones we demand they provide us solutions to. A faster car, a faster processor, a faster road to pleasure. Anything to take our mind off of what we should be doing, anything to blind us from the reality of our lives, one where we are impotent to take control. Instead, we choose the options that have been laid out on the bed for us, and we go to sleep.

When we awake, what will we find?

If we aren't willing to change, do you think the governments and corporations will make the changes we need?

Taraz
[ a Steemit original ]