It's time for my State of the Material World 3.0 essay and as it’s always the case - I criticize the material world. I don't actually criticize it, I critique it. But today I'm going to start with a positive statement.
Whereas a few centuries ago I would have been burnt at the stake, now I get to write and share my thoughts freely. Humanity has come a really long way from a daily activity of murder, savagery and destruction.
I commend humanity for becoming much more humane.
Evolution of Human
But we still have a lot of work to do and the major area of focus should be the philosophy and the credos of our lives. In ancient times people spent a lot of time thinking and developing philosophies of how to behave and act honorably in the world.
Recently I saw a documentary about two-three very glad people who were very glad to have been involved with the cartels doing weapons and women with naked breasts, and they sounded very satisfied with themselves that their lives were devoted to facilitating murder and exploitation.
People are comfortable and satisfied to have had their lives devoted to such pursuits.
I don't know, it's hard for me to really wrap my head around a person in the 21st century, having all the knowledge and lessons from history, and with the ability and resources to literally do anything in the world, who can choose to do moral and corporal savagery.
But I'm glad everyday that I can complain freely unlike the Free press. Because everybody seems to think that there's such a thing as Free press where journalists write about things that they believe in deep in their hearts. You're better off finding random Reddit user or anonymous Twitter with more sincerity than the Free press.
Because the Free press isn't free. I can't really dislike when somebody goes out and makes a living for themselves. I dislike the labels not the act. When a journalist goes to work they get a call from their boss and their boss tells them what to do and what to write about and what leads to pursue. Can you imagine going to work and you boss tells you do this and you say nah I'm going to do something else.
When I really totally have nothing against people writing out there and having other people reading their stuff, I dislike it being called honest free journalism. I call journalists writing workers -they make a living by writing about whatever their bosses tell them to write about.
But see we don't really know what the boss's agenda is, the only newspaper boss whose agenda we know of is Bezos, so we know for sure that whatever the Washington Post is writing about is making people sign up for Amazon prime.
Remember when the New York times posted the names of all the dead from Covid?
I know for sure that the New York Times doesn't care about people dying because people die on the streets of New York, as I have written many times, and I haven't seen a single New York times person helping them in any way. They only care for people who are diying in entertaining ways.
My biggest complaint is actually the concrete reinforcement of groupthink which I see everyday and I'm appalled to think that the lives of many people revolve around goal posts that are almost set in stone. First we start seeing pumpkins, pumpkins everywhere, then we all dress for Halloween, immediately after that we start getting ready to carve turkeys, guess which one is the next goalpost.
And somehow all these activities include drone shopping for things no one needs.
People move through life through shopping goal posts.
Our consciousness is so overwhelmed by this imagery - an entire nation simultaneously starts carving pumpkins like our lives depend on it.
Between pumpkins, carving turkeys and decorating Christmas trees we forgot that the entire manufacturing and engineering core of America has been outsourced to China and other countries, that we forgot how to make and engineer things and most of the population has to resort to service jobs at McDonald's and other fast food and not so fast chains and our only hope is to save enough for an iPhone so we can do selfies.
Selfies are pretty reasonable goal to aspire to as well as scrolling and swiping left and right.
We don't need teachers, engineers and scientists because there's nothing really they could do for America, but we have an army of swipers and scrollers who know how to get good selfies, and get AI and Bot liked.
Of course the social media/shopping networks enforce the glorious images of people who don't do anything. Models and influencers work really hard at reinforcing the social/shopping networks and become role models for people who aren’t fulfilled at work and don't have great jobs to aspire to, because all the great jobs have been taken outside of America. So all people have to aspire to is work hard at making social media profiles and getting in turn likes from more bots and AI.
I'm painting a grim picture and of course I'm exaggerating but at the core of it all is cold and calculated observation from my own experience. And no one's paying me to say it so you can trust it's at least sincere.