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How do you feel about yourselves?
What do you think about at night?
Do you ever wonder why you feel so empty sometimes?
So, so inexplicably incomplete?
I'm willing to bet that if you ever do feel it, then you just fucking shrug it off like you do your entire existence. Maybe you should wake up and realize what's going on around you. No, not that people are being murdered and mistreated everywhere you turn; and no, not even that there's a bullshit war going on 3 000 miles away from us (albeit both very closely related consequences to what I'm about to become increasingly volatile upon).
You're being eaten alive.
Eaten alive by a socio-machine of your own fabrication.
And what's more is that you don't even know it--you're so goddamn numb to anything and everything. You can't even take a minute out of your oh so busy day to pause and take in the incredible beauty around you (or what little is left of it). You're so caught up in making more and more money so that you can buy shinier, fancier things that you absolutely do not need and probably don't even care to own--things you won't even remember existed 10 years from now. And the worst part about all of it is that you don't realize any of this.
But why should you? These ideas of capitalism and materialism have been instilled into your minds since birth. You don't know any better--and as much as I'd love to blame you for it, I can't course myself into doing so. The problem does not lie directly with you, but you are a direct result of the problem. Today's society is fueled by greed. It is a living, breathing disease, hellbent on consuming anything it possibly can. Thanks to its imminent influence over most everyone today, you'll stop at nothing so that you can acquire more money and more power just to satisfy your ephemeral desires. And while satisfaction may seem to come at a low cost (even though that new Benz you just landed ran you 70 Gs, you earned it, man, right?), you don't realize what's going on behind the direct relation of money and prize.
You don't realize that, in order to feed your desire, 1% of the world's total rainforest is being destroyed each year (but those are way the fuck down in like Brazil and shit so why should you care?). You hear about global warming but think "Shit, what's a couple more degrees?" And that's if you actually even believe it's fucking happening. You don't realize that the world's total oil and natural gas supply is going to run out within the next one to two hundred years (along with those rainforests that don't really even matter) because of our insatiable need to do things that are completely unnecessary. You don't realize that the world's population is going to nearly double in the next 40 some years, and the bulk of this population increase will be in the so aptly titled 3rd-world countries (which means an incredible burst in the usage of dirty, non-replenishable fuels, and of course the need to feed about 5 billion more people, but that's nothing). And that's if our civilization can even last 40 more years at the rate it's going now.
The end of the world is coming, but not by some bullshit armageddon that the so-called good book speaks of. It's coming via the hands of our very own beloved species.
Well, fuck.
No, let me rephrase that.
FUCK.
DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
JUST FUCKING TELL SOMEONE THAT ISN'T AWARE.
ANYTHING THAT CAN POSSIBLY MAKE EVEN THE SMALLEST DIFFERENCE.
I hope that at least one of you read this and understood it.
I hope even more that it may have enlightened one of you to the slightest hint that something is wrong and needs to be changed.
What do you think about at night?
Do you ever wonder why you feel so empty sometimes?
So, so inexplicably incomplete?
I'm willing to bet that if you ever do feel it, then you just fucking shrug it off like you do your entire existence. Maybe you should wake up and realize what's going on around you. No, not that people are being murdered and mistreated everywhere you turn; and no, not even that there's a bullshit war going on 3 000 miles away from us (albeit both very closely related consequences to what I'm about to become increasingly volatile upon).
You're being eaten alive.
Eaten alive by a socio-machine of your own fabrication.
And what's more is that you don't even know it--you're so goddamn numb to anything and everything. You can't even take a minute out of your oh so busy day to pause and take in the incredible beauty around you (or what little is left of it). You're so caught up in making more and more money so that you can buy shinier, fancier things that you absolutely do not need and probably don't even care to own--things you won't even remember existed 10 years from now. And the worst part about all of it is that you don't realize any of this.
But why should you? These ideas of capitalism and materialism have been instilled into your minds since birth. You don't know any better--and as much as I'd love to blame you for it, I can't course myself into doing so. The problem does not lie directly with you, but you are a direct result of the problem. Today's society is fueled by greed. It is a living, breathing disease, hellbent on consuming anything it possibly can. Thanks to its imminent influence over most everyone today, you'll stop at nothing so that you can acquire more money and more power just to satisfy your ephemeral desires. And while satisfaction may seem to come at a low cost (even though that new Benz you just landed ran you 70 Gs, you earned it, man, right?), you don't realize what's going on behind the direct relation of money and prize.
You don't realize that, in order to feed your desire, 1% of the world's total rainforest is being destroyed each year (but those are way the fuck down in like Brazil and shit so why should you care?). You hear about global warming but think "Shit, what's a couple more degrees?" And that's if you actually even believe it's fucking happening. You don't realize that the world's total oil and natural gas supply is going to run out within the next one to two hundred years (along with those rainforests that don't really even matter) because of our insatiable need to do things that are completely unnecessary. You don't realize that the world's population is going to nearly double in the next 40 some years, and the bulk of this population increase will be in the so aptly titled 3rd-world countries (which means an incredible burst in the usage of dirty, non-replenishable fuels, and of course the need to feed about 5 billion more people, but that's nothing). And that's if our civilization can even last 40 more years at the rate it's going now.
The end of the world is coming, but not by some bullshit armageddon that the so-called good book speaks of. It's coming via the hands of our very own beloved species.
Well, fuck.
No, let me rephrase that.
FUCK.
DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
JUST FUCKING TELL SOMEONE THAT ISN'T AWARE.
ANYTHING THAT CAN POSSIBLY MAKE EVEN THE SMALLEST DIFFERENCE.
I hope that at least one of you read this and understood it.
I hope even more that it may have enlightened one of you to the slightest hint that something is wrong and needs to be changed.