Something I wanted to share..

[ochho]

I'ts just a little something that I wrote on a Sunday morning at work last year, that I felt like sharing.

In a way, it is the materialization of what my mind has reaped in the year and a half of mind, consciousness and awareness expansion that precedes it.

Sunday, November 30, 2008 at 12:22pm - Welcome toThe Machine.

My thoughts on a beautiful, yet treanchant song from Pink Floyd, the revolutionary artists of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. I decided to add this song as a note because I feel it is right on about this world and so-called society we live in.

Welcome to the machine.

This monster of a world we live in, as mindless, ignorant fools and servants. What's the purpose of life if we are to just "live it through". Every moment counts, don't just sit there and watch it go by. Don't just take it for granted.
You can either be just another cog in this monstruous machine, or you can wake up, do somehting that matters, free your mind, think for yourself.. don't just believe what others tell you.

As one of my favorite quotes says, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste". I think the human mind is the most beautiful gift life has ever given us. It is the pillar of humanity, we wouldn't be here today without it.
But that's the challenge about it, being able to take that gift and use it wisely. Corruption, power, greed, envy, ignorance..some of the obstacles on our path to greater things. Most men fall to these..and for what? More corruption, more greed. You'll never reach the light at the end of the tunnel, and before you know it .. it's too late, and you look back at all those years you've wasted.

Maybe I'm not one able to tell such tales, but I know I've encountered change in the way I think, in the way I perceive people, life, society. And I can clearly see how wrong things are in this world. I've learned not to take things for granted, and see them through for myself. Lies, deceit, prejudice. They are all faces of today's world that mask its true identity, and make people false towards themselves. And then more layers of lies and prejudice build up on top of that, and you end up with what you see today. People driven by the TV, the media, all the advertising, all the capitalist profit-driven bullshit. Don't succomb to that, wake up, use your minds, seek more opinions, do research.
"Ignorance is a bliss", most people are happy with their lives, in their little world, or maybe it is just an illusion of happiness. But I cannot but feel sad for these people, as they are truly missing what's out there. Get out of your little box, and live life, take risks, enjoy those little moments, explore all possiblities. For me, these possiblities lies inside the human mind, I am amazed by how capable it is. All these emotions, feelings, rationalities, logic, creativty. It is a treasure beyond limits. The only limits to it, is the ones you give to it. If you choose to ignore it, then lays dormant many wonderful things.

"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern." -Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception.

Allright, I'm gonna leave it to that..and without further adue, the lyrics that I promised a few paragraphs earlier

Welcome to the Machine - Pink Floyd.

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
Where have you been? its alright we know where you've been.
You've been in the pipeline, filling in time, provided with toys and
scouting for boys.
You bought a guitar to punish your ma,
And you didn't like school, and you know you're nobody's fool,
So welcome to the machine.

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
What did you dream? its alright we told you what to dream.
You dreamed of a big star, he played a mean guitar,
He always ate in the steak bar. he loved to drive in his jaguar.
So welcome to the machine.

-

P.L.U.R,
Georges.

If you have any writings, poems, songs, notes..etc you want to share, do it here! I, and surely many others, would love to read them

 

[Affirmatory]

That is a very succinct and well put description of what most of us on this board (I hope) and many people in the world have seen so clearly for a while now. And yet still most people I meet can't see it or refuse to see it. I am not so good at explaining it as you, so I hope you express what you just said to as many people as you can. When I try to 'wake people up', I think in the end I look like some sort of evangelical cultist and it does more harm than good

 

[gonzebo]

holy crap affirmatory.

you've been inside my head recently, havent you?

 

[ochho]

Thanks for the comment Affirmatory. Well, the main probem I think comes from the way we are brought up.. No one tells you to use your mind and logic when you're a child or teenager. You're always given and fed what is right, what is wrong, traditions, culture, religion. We are brought up in a way to look up for information. Your school is your source of information when you're young, and after that..maybe the government, or some other kind of authority on life matters.
And until you realize that some of the things they bring forth are not true.. For me, maybe it was my use of LSD/cannabis. My view on it until then was the common view on all drugs. It's bad, and it takes control of your life. Where did I get that from? TV, Movies, Media, Society, Culture, Education.

So why is our society like that? Someone has to take charge in order for a society to be successful, we can't let every person do whatever they want, if we want to survive (It's slightly different now, but that was the tribe model). And the leader's job is much easier when he has sheep to lead. So in a way, we are educated in a way that we are useful to the advancement of society, but we are never taught to criticize, ask questions, question authority.

The law is the law, and the government knows what's best for you. (Apparently)

Would I be a mindless zombie now if I hadn't experienced LSD/cannabis? Quite possibly, or at least until some other issue shun some light in me.

The only way out of the tunnel is to follow the light. and Truth is the light. Keep spreading the truth, and eventually people will wake up. And we are seeing this more and more everyday (With documentaries and studies all around, be it drugs, political corruption and agendas, the environment..etc)