There is this thinG I thinK: if you start to be bothered by civilians coming from nations that politically disturb your peace, you let them* win.
In my mind, all of the conflicts in the world, especially the ones involving nations, ethnic groups, bulks of people: are creations of one’s mind. Those reasons, those emotions, those big problems with the OTHER do not exist. By exercising the aggression and actions confirming the existence of the conflict, you are playing the game. Game constructed by a person that has its reasons for inventing it. Usually we do not know what those reasons are, we hear explanations made for convincing the biggest amount of people to participate in the goals that need to be achieved. As simple as marketing. But there is nothing simple in marketing. The biggest politicians and despots in the world had talent for PR, for marketing, for including psychology into the mix. It is common knowledge what Bernays did after the IIWW, how Mussolini invented propaganda, how Americans are still making sure everyone wants to be an American even though there is no reason for it other than ‘sunny yellow’ filters on cameras recording a movie usually filmed on a set, or in Europe. Big leaders have talent, talent to make others believe in their stories. Made up stories. And I know they were made up simply because reality is never that sexy as a made up story!
It is a losing battle trying to free your mind from all the subtle influences of Japanese style (I was told during my studies that in Japan they insert sexualised photos for a fraction of a second in ads to make you buy stuff) content. You try not to buy the ugliest shoes everyone is wearing and a few years later they appear in your closet.
What do you know(?!) not so ugly after all.
But it is more important with people, groups of people, civilians that haven’t done anything to you, directly. If you let them: roaming around, free, happy, smiling: bother you: you are accepting that made up story from that talented leader that is pursuing his own agenda. You start working for him, for FREE. Trading your convictions, your soul, your self, however you’d like to call it, something that shouldn’t be for sale. Something that should be kept for you, for your intimate and personal relationship with the world. You are trading your sense of wonder and accepting someone else’s. I always thought things like that are violating our human rights, and if you have a choice, don’t do it. Do not engage. It is sacred.
The grown-up world today, is everything but grown-up. It is a mess with strange and always changing values. There is less and less alternative in all faucets of society (Money and money alone means power, the end). It was hard for me to see 4 high school boys on the street, with distinct features of them belonging to a certain religion, and not feel immediate rage. They were not ashamed of what people are doing in the name of their religion. They were happy. They were smiling. They were free. I wish they were simply high school kids. I wish I didn’t feel the rage. I wish they smiled and I smiled. I wish they were mere assholes just for being teenage boys. But they weren’t, and I wasn’t, 3 seconds passed and then I reminded myself:
They are merely teenage boys, assholes in their own right, civilians, people. Do not let their leaders win. Do not get hired for free to promote someone else’s agenda. Stay clean from the world’s filth.
And I did. I am clean. I have my own personal hates. Short lived, petty, funny. I fight my own battles, and I try not to include others in them. Because I am classy like that.
And NOW: Few aggressive sentences we all know are true but prefer not to say out loud:
- World’s problem with plastic can be solved today. Just ban the plastic. Bottles and everything. I am not sure why the world is treating big corporations like they are humanitarian cases. They have the resources, they will think of something. We will continue to drink coca-cola, I am not worried about us.
- All the wars can be stoped, just stop them! (make money some other way, you are being transparent-.-) All the middle Eastern problems can disappear just if we were honest about them. It is shit, do not do it, there is enough land on this earth for everyone to live! Australia is half-empty and you can take the fucking wall with you!
- I should not have attacked Japan and spread questionable information about their advertisements in this text. I did it, to prove a point. I really did hear that as a student, but I couldn’t confirm it, and I shouldn’t have used it.
Marry-go-round
*their leaders
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