I feel like everyone around me are brainwashed by an anomaly much bigger and stronger than any government, military army, social media, journalist or billionaire. They’re like puppets on a string but who or what is pulling the strings? I can’t name anyone else who can see and understands things from my perspective. My view on things is quite universal, effectively outside Earth’s atmosphere in outer space seeing from above in the International Space Station or another planet in another galaxy many light years away. It isn’t who or what is controlling our thoughts, decisions, choices, views and opinions. It is something that we, humans, created many years ago to promote stability, unity, culture, tradition and sustainability. It is a system more complex, more methodical, more sophisticated than any computer, machine or system no human I can name can comprehend or has invented. That system, unbeknown to most of us but known to a selective few, is called “society”. Some may argue that media, politics, totalitarianism, power of the rich are controlling our way of life, train of thought, using repetitive, emotive and derogatory language to promote “click bait” in exchange for financial personal profit, self-dignity and personal privilege. I feel that media, politics and the alpha humans contribute partially to how human society ran over the years to the present day. The system that humans made with the intent to fulfil the lives of all residents whether it be through advanced technology like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and other popular apps, feature news bulletins, politically biased tabloid and online newspaper articles and a competitive job market.
I don’t know who, but I’m more than interested to find out who invented the concepts of money, economics, business, finance, marketing and technology. I feel that humans from previous generations including my parents and grandparents were taught to make a choice based on what the system offers them and depending on your social status in society. The things deservedly awarded to them illustrates more than just a passion to fulfil their own dreams while demonstrating a great deal of academic intelligence. I overhear conversations of people collaborating of the topics or things they want to specialise, research or explore in the not-too-distant future. Although I feel proud of their progress through adolescence, it worries me that the system has somehow poisoned them to think they have to take on a specific role to contribute to society. I, on the other hand, honestly don’t think specialising in one thing is enough for me to fulfil life to the maximum. Like Einstein, I am curious of the things happening around me. While Einstein pursued a new theory in physics and advanced mathematics with his ingenious thought experiments famously known as “Relativity” as well as spending 10 years proposing and proving his own view of how the universe works, while busting other theories that were mistakenly accepted by society as correct such as Newton’s Law of Gravity.
It’s not just one but a combination of things that makes me curious. These things revolve around human psychology, and neuroscience understanding the thought processes and behaviours that humans perform everyday in different scenarios whether at home, at school, at work or in public. Apparently I have to understand the biology, chemistry, physics, (at times) mathematics and (indirectly) politics in order to the imagine the masterpiece that we call “human society”. I’m also curious about humans and animal evolution, and natural selection, which allows me to create a whole list of deep, philosophical questions Google is unable to straight up answer to me. I’m also interested in the evolution of language too, hearing how English became the global language, knowing how certain languages became extinct or revolutionised and influenced by other cultures and foreign languages such as Arabic, French, German, Latin, Greek and Hebrew. It intrigues me to see why certain things are designed and invented in certain shapes, words printed in certain styles and spoken in different tones and pitches. But that’s for another post.
To me, I feel the most successful people are satisfying society’s credentials and criterion proving their worth by bravely and passionately sticking their noses into the flytrap’s mouth that emits an attractive aroma known as a “legacy”. It seems that society rewards those who are willing to share and spread the defining views and opinions faster than viruses and bacteria, and become part of a growing population of distinct persona. Once you’re caught into the deceptive hands of the societal system, there’s almost no escape from it because those thoughts and views prepared and ready to infect you will be embedded into your memories subconsciously without awareness or any clear signs from the outside for our senses to detect. However, all hope is not lost. So far I haven’t witnessed or discovered any group suited to humans or animals who want to stick to their own views and are resistant to society’s expectations and needs. It would be honourable to build a sanctuary for those who want to live life the way they want without interference or forceful decision-making by society. Obviously, I don’t want to promote selfishness (the need to protect their own race, culture and gender from any influence). I’d rather see the people around me have the sympathy and compassion to understand and learn diverse races, cultures, traditions and often misunderstood actions and views. If, by any chance, a hotheaded person is running the show by promoting unnecessary slurs and views that no one could take seriously or attempt to empathetically understand them, then it would be best if I intervened and dug deep into the reasoning of his opinions and behaviour. I know I have the conversational skills to be sympathetic but polite. I don’t know how I do it or how to explain it, but instead of indirectly digging into the cancer that is infecting his mindset, I try to work my way around the labyrinth of thoughts in their brains by utilising my toolbox of literal devices such as analogies with movies, films, tv episodes, famous people, relatives, objects etc. and metaphors and sometimes puns. This allows me to narrow down the sources of their harsh and passionate views on certain issues and unveil the reasoning behind their views. What do I do next? Well that depends on the situation, but I’d be more than happy to visit the places these people accumulated their experiences and learnings as children or young adults and the peers they grew up with and socialised with. With their permission, I might bring along a few people who long for exploration, social interaction and novelties.
If there is something missing from the sanctuary and I get queried about it, I would be more than happy to take in their word and offer it to them with little cost. However all that is easier said than done. I don’t think online interaction and parties would be adequate, what is really needed is a combination of human interactions and understandings in order to create a home or safe haven that is fun and exhilarating but relaxing, luxurious and highly regarded as welcoming and understanding. Some people would think a luxury cruise onboard the Princess Anne but I don’t want people following protocols while abandoning ship like putting on life jackets and leaving onboard all personal belongings and a lifetime of happiness and relaxation. I’d like to give people the options to leave this sanctuary whenever they like with or without their belongings and via any mode of transport and they are welcome to return whenever they like. Now it’s up to this point that people will start questioning me about terrorism, violence, protests or gatecrashers destroying this so-called paradise. I wish people did not complicate things with the probabilities of harmful and deadly risks from happening but I understand their fears are just as important to take into account to insure the safety of everyone inside and outside the sanctuary.
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