Awake

The banks are charging you a large sum for interest for the place where you are staying, the government is charging you tax, you are working your life away, but you are too busy watching tick tock to face this and have any energy to do anything about it. You are being entertained.

The bank systems are automated, they don’t need a human to screw you over anymore, even the humans working at the banks are taking out mortgages, they have no idea about the mechanisms of the institution they work for. 

Its success to own a home, drive a big car, get married etc the commercial world has got us occupied with these ideas while the bank and government are also taking their piece of your life. Its not a system that requires single drivers there’s no one person to blame, it’s us, its always been, even if any of you would become president tomorrow you won’t change much of this at all, its an automated system it doesn’t need human intelligence to operate, the original creators are long dead and still very much alive. 

We are now selling this way of living to each other without much encouragement. We are now responsible for the encouragement, the system is well oiled and all the departments require you at the helm. 

We create the content that encourage productivity and motivated and a champion for the idea of reaching the pinnacle. It’s perpetual, it has no ending, it’s a dream within a dream, it’s never enough, how much can you own? how much can you gather up in the bank account? how many excuses will u make up to keep all that money? Your kids? You wanna save up some for them and their kids sure. 

You are the system that answers the how of living and it results in wars. As we insist that this is what we know. Competition, brother against brother, who is driving the bigger car, the bigger house, whose life looks better, which surburb, which degree, which university, which restaurants, what phone, how many posts, how many likes? 

This requires you face something or you can be apathetic, cynical it’s easier to remain as you are, easier to blame something that’s there, it’s not me, surely I have nothing to do with all this? well yes I do! there’s no content without the audience, I am the viewer I am the voter, I am the consumer, the labor, I am the reader. 

It’s me all of this is me. I am seeing it’s me, the mirror, I’m looking at my debit orders and I see that I fund the banks, I am looking at my debit orders and I see that I fund the telecommunication companies, I have all the social media accounts, I see that it’s me and maybe I hadn’t looked so closely before. 

Now I wonder what to do about it when I see this mess I am part of. I am embarrassed and ashamed of my corruption. I watch closely now whenever I spend because I know somehow I have to find my way out of this because for now I am stuck. I watch now whenever I am being sold something, i listen, I read the contracts closely, I watch my viewing habits, what I am eating, who is around me, what are they saying, I watch all of this now I am sharp, I am awake!