Not that long ago, the main entertainment sport was watching people killing each other. It has been replaced by animals nowadays. Still, the concept seems surreal of taking place in our days. But back then... Why wasn't it? Because it was socially accepted in a larger scale? Why was that? Weren't we born with the same humanity centuries ago? We tend to get molded by our surroundings. And the ones who fight it are marginalized. So... No matter how good, well fit in society people we think we are now, if we had been born in a different age, we would feel good watching humans slaying each other groossomly, and not be bothered by it, simply because society told us it was the right thing to do.
Am I the only one who thinks it's a liability (and a dangerous one) to fit in? Am I the only one who thinks it's good to think with my own head and have my own identity, irregardlessly of what is 'normal'?
The world is a gutter and we're supposed to bathe on it.
The same people who defend the rights of minorities and humanity in general are the first to throw stones at their neighbour. The same people crying about how badly they've suffered and been hurt are the first to hurt others. The people who play saints are the first to backstab you. Society remains a game of deceit. More subtle, but in essence it remains the same. And I wonder... If the death games were to go for a major comeback, just how many people would consider them immoral?
The only thing real, is that nothing is real. Most of what you believe in is make believe. Doesn't take a hard look into power theories to understand how easy it is to manipulate, and to create power. And to see that a restricted group holds all of it and the rest of the world revolves around what it's lead to believe. Not that that's is a bad thing entirely... Given the mentality that has been created throughout the years, most people would collapse if left to think by their own, and chaos would rise. But I wonder, in my own petit ignorance... Wouldn't it be nice if we had an educational system that would teach human beings how to be human rather than pawns? Wouldn't it be nice if we taught people how to think instead of what to think?
Faced with more and more freedom, people don't know how to react. They haven't been prepared for freedom. Thus, the clinging into an identity, either a person, a carreer... Whatever. And the use of whatever means necessary to pursue it. Isn't that the definition of selling your soul? Relinquishing all that makes you human for a socially imposed purpose?
A very intelligent man once said, the meaning of life is that there is no meaning of life. He couldn't be more correct. And again comes the theory... Why don't we simply accept each other as equals, and that the only way that we differentiate from each other is how we touch each other's souls, how we influence other people's lives, and what happens to them? That that is our only responsability, to do good and make each other happy and better, day by day?
No matter what you do in life, soon after you die, your name will be forgotten. It maybe left in a text book, attached to a work of art, or a scientific theory, but that's all there will be left. Not a single piece of your soul will remain. But you can leave it with the people you touch, all through your life time. Some will understand the lessons you have to teach, some will not, but you have to keep going, keep trying and keep believing in giving. Because all that could ever remain is what you give, even if your name is forgotten,
