Wednesday 28 July 2010

On normality and a faceless world

I feel incredibly sad and peaceful at the same time - is this normal?

But... Normality is just a blanket word to describe a category of people that happens to be in the majority at any given time, really. Change the people in majority and the definition of what ‘normal’ means will also change. So while there must be such a thing as normality, it is but a mere subjective notion linked to whatever number is greater, or stronger. That’s why, for instance, it was considered ‘normal’ for kids to start working before the age of 16 less than a century ago - because the majority adhered to that way of things - but it is no longer considered ‘normal’ today because the new majority is now of a different opinion or adheres to a different set of beliefs.

Some people are born more intelligent than others. Some people are born leaders rather than followers... There has to be a reason why they were born with the gift of intelligence to reason, but instead of using that gift to help humanity they choose to use it for all the wrong purposes. The more I ponder this, the more certain I grow that those who happen to have that intelligence, those who can see clearly the wrongs and still will choose to join in the decadence, are the ones that deserve to be most severely punished. Even more so than the dim-witted criminal who became what he became through the influence of a broken society. Why? Because the weak and the followers were supposed to be rightly influenced by those who happened to be ‘brighter’ or shrewder.


Everything is so fake, these days... Everything seems to have been designed to make you lose the plot. Take my shiny little I Phone, or the internet, or TV, or... Whatever. It’s all - all of it - created for one purpose and one purpose only: for profit of some sort. It’s all about business and making a return on one’s investment. One thing that’s been dying more than any other ideal or moral value has to be love. Why? Because love is free, of course, and not only that, it often works at a deficit. Loving means that you’ll probably end up losing more than you’ll ever receive - that’s why the true notion of love had to be scrapped from the people’s consciousness, to be replaced by blanket words, or business-like mindsets so dry we’ll soon be acting like machines - because machines are devoid of all feelings.

People in the workplace, for instance, are no longer called anything remotely humane - they are assets, or resources, or elements, or even pawns. Isn’t that why such terms as ‘human resources’ were created? Students have become customers paying in exchange for knowledge, and in the end, we’ve all become more dispensable than ever. And that is why we now live in what can only be called a faceless society.

One faceless society for a faceless world.

3 comments:

kavak yelleri 129 said...

thank you

Rachana said...

good work
Loved the first two paragraphs,but after that I felt that the continuity was lost

Sarah said...

That's because I was exploring two things, although in essence both relate to each other, and separated them with a picture to try and make the transition between one line of thought to the next smoother.
I think dwelling on the notion of what is 'normal' led me to then reflect on the world and the way that 'normality' presents itself in reality.