- Thu Oct 22, 2015 12:04 pm
#195357
The only thing I'm getting out of this video is the notion that Jeff should stop constantly spamming us with how 'The System' is going to ultimately ruin us and how 'The Man' controls it all, and how dark and bleak his imagined future is. For me I know my future is pretty happy. I go to school. Get a job. Get married. Possibly have children. Die. As it has been for years. Nothing much will change. We will always struggle to provide for ourselves, we will always fall in pathetic love.
We will always die.
I mean, as long as there's still a faint glimmer of hope inside you, nothing can stop you. Look at the people who risked their lives to save others. The chopper pilot who aided in stopping the Mai Lai Massacre. Consider the people who risked life and limb to save people from the Holocaust. This 'future' you show us has already happened in the past, with slight alterations. Look at a military police officer the wrong way? You're dead. Speak out against the leader? You're dead. Those systems have long been toppled, at least the ones under Herr Hitler and Comrade Stalin. Think being recognised by only a number is so far away? Anyone who is familiar with the Holocaust knows about that, or just as any American is with the Social Security system. Perhaps being treated the same as each other, undifferentiated. I'm sure those in mass graves, left unidentified, certainly share a feeling of unity.
Humanity is built on differences. Some people are better leaders, so they lead. Some are hard workers, at either the brain or the brawn end of the spectrum. Some are creative. Musicians, artists. If everyone were the same, we would cease to be human. Our failings draw us close and our strengths let us help others. There is no way that such a thing would come about, but if it DID there is a very high chance those that don't support it would have moved out of the country already, fled. All those left in the system at that point would want to be a part of the system, or too dumb to know better. We're not going to be forced to be this way. All we really NEED to do is perhaps learn to control our tongues. Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks, or so they say. However I have found it that many times with a little thinking my brain can override my heart, my raw emotions. For all you know I'm a racist, sexist jerk who really likes to dehumanize others. I may just be good at hiding it. But even in hiding it, that shows a level of respect few today know.
"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."
-Everyone's Mother
TL;DR: Don't whine. Just live your life and be rad until you die. Everyone's different and it's going to stay that way.
"Bad times friend ahead. Maybe no computer. Maybe no home. I go away but we are two of soul. I will return."
-Anonymous