“They’re not mad. They’re trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
And so goes on the history of mankind as we know it……
How many curious minds do we find today amidst ourselves? Loads… but curiosity towards what may we ask? Curiosity towards the world we live in…no! Curiosity about the people who rule our world….no! Curiosity about what your neighbor is doing…Yes…let’s hear a hallelujah. Curiosity about how much money your co-worker has in his bank account…Yes…let’s hear it once again…Hallelujah!
‘What have we become?’ one could easily wonder. Yet, who we become is often something few of us have a choice in. You ‘be’ and for generations most of us ‘have been’ ignorant fools who have been driven around physically and mentally by a collective few who possess the powers of illusion.
These powers of illusion are not synonymous to those possessed by wizards or magicians but to the simple gift of the gab that creates sweet-talkers or diplomats or lobbyists. What they possess in their minds is the power of knowledge, the kind of knowledge that understands the basic human behavior and knows how, when and where it can or cannot be manipulated.
How do we know that the superpowers of today don’t manipulate the beliefs of jihadists to carry on a war which is needed for certain vested reasons? And in the name of war laws are passed “democratically” that takes away every last vestige of our freedom. That brings us to another important question - what is freedom?
Aren’t we all free to go shopping and buy more goods and consume, consume, consume till we die? Some may say that is freedom but how can that be freedom when the very act of consumption is something that has been created by the corporate world as a mechanism that keeps on increasing their profits? How can you keep leading a life that has been designed by someone else for you to live and yet call yourself free?
Even if you want to make a choice and are free to make a choice then look at the choices that exist - the choice between Pepsi or Coke…at some level both are the same…creations of corporate gods who want you to believe that you have freedom.
And the sad fact is that there isn’t any silver lining in this dark cloud.
