I open up my wallet and it is full of blood. And holy shit, my wallet was made in China too. I go to the deli, and biting into the Bacon, egg, and cheese I eat the rotten decaying flesh of our culture like a cannibalistic zombie. No wonder zombie movies are so popular these days, you know art imitates life right? And if you can't go through life with an 18 wheel Mack truck barreling down a country road firing off your machine gun into the black of night, then well I'm not really sure if I can trust you. I mean, if your not totally insane in a world such as this, there must be something seriously wrong with you.
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The expressions of the collective subconscious through the mediums of mass media:
Mass media engages our subconscious through what we are afraid of. We express who we are through our culture, no matter how sugarcoated and clouded through the fog of survivalism it tends to look. The violence we see in the media connects us with the violence that many people over the world experience daily. When we cannot experience the truth of this violence someway in our own lives, and it is kept from our consciousness, our subconscious actively seeks out it's expression. If the conscious mind rejects the expression of the subconscious for whatever reason, it will seem as humorous, without meaning, absurd, banal, whatever flavor you want to put on it. We need to experience the evil that is spread throughout the world. The uncomfortable things that are kept from our eyes, because if we were forced to live in all our useless toxic waste we would all be motivated to change the way we live much more easily. It is the legacy of the ruling classes to retain their footholds as the ones who once control the wealth of the land for the benefit of the "less evolved and rational peasants". And it is the fear of that ruling class, that does not want to give up it's position as the primary caretaker of the Earth's resources that seeks to keep us in the dark, to extend the infancy of consciousness in order to profit. To keep us occupied with survival in a world where the Earth can provide all of our 6 billion needs, yet we fight like monkeys over pieces of the ground. We have no rational concept of what "sustainability" is because we've never as a whole confronted the idea without pairing it to the "way of life" that we have all become accustomed to in this short but dense 100 years. And because of our refusal to confront this, and to those who profit from imposing ignorance upon the trusting masses, we will suffer.
It is an intricate tapestry we weave, and to be but a thread in a such a large entanglement of string is to humble one's opinions of what is "right" and how the world "is". We are fish in water and until we face that fact we will be but children dreaming of fantastic impossibilities rather than men and women who find the pragmatic way to make their dreams reality. To let go of the details, because nothing ever manifests itself the way you imagine totally. Unless you are one wise motherfucker.
And a wise motherfucker will always keep his eyes wide open.
