Visions: The Second Renaissance. I

Visions: The Second Renaissance.

I

- Trained for being competitive, Trained to be Minus Human -

Wednesday, 4:33 A.M. 

It's funny I start this column at this particular time. 4:33' is the name of a composition (based in silence) John Cage made. He was one of the most revolutionary composers of the past century.

In any case, let's go to the main subject of this column here.

 

I'm 27 years old as I am writing this. I am not sure how many people would read this columns I'll keep posting from now on based on my observations of society. I don't claim these to be the ultimate truth, since I consider the truth as something personal and timeless for each one who keeps seeking it. 

 

However, it is with much regret that in this society we live in, we don't see the patterns happening around us. It would be nice if those were constructive, but they aren't. Those patterns, seem to celebrate and promote things like hatred, self-importance, false individualism, and the suppression of free will, free speech, and the freedom of a creed, whatever that is.

 

In the country I live in I see these things happening in quite an incredible fast rate. Somehow, what is happening it's a micro-cosmos of what's already happening in the world out of these walls I live in, and out of these country. No matter if you're into polithics, music, sports, whatever. 

The competition and the self-righteousness to claim what we seek, what we follow, or what we "believe" is the ultimate truth, is all over the place. I think it's rather sad.

 

I don't recall the time things started to be like this. Not to sound pessimistic, but as far things go this way, we're not getting anywhere. As I was walking today with a good old friend of mine, I told him this :

We live in a world worried in the benefit of the few,

 Instead of working for the benefit of the whole.

 

All through internet, in social networks where you could write (or say) things as you wish, all I see is hatred, sarcasm, tons of self-manifestations of "enlightment" , people trying to impress and prove so hard how "witty, funny, challenging" they are, people trying so hard to put the others down because they consider them "inferior", people trying so hard to make THEIR view the ONE and ONLY view.

 

I wonder, when the world turned upside-down ? When did we forgot the real meaning of being alive ? WHEN, for fucks sake... WHEN DID WE LOST TRACK?

 

Life's too short to try to FORCE our view into the world surrounding us. Think this for a minute there, wouldn't be boring if all of us were all "smart-asses" speaking in "strange jargon", dressing "unique", thinking exactly the same things we "consider right", listening to the music "we consider good music".

To me, as far as I see it, that's called Dictatorship.

 

Instead of trying to make a "one and only view", why not turning that wasted energy and creativity into something new and great for your society ? Why keep criticising it instead of doing SOMETHING to change it? I know it's hard as hell, but it would be more meaningful.

 

Life's too short to live it in a constant state of competition.