FREE ESSAY ON A VIEW OF MODERN SOCIET

A VIEW OF MODERN SOCIET

I wrote this to try and take the reader on a journey. What you read here is a direct
reflection of the current state of our society.
I want to point out to you, the reader, exactly what is happening in the undercurrents of
the digital frontier. Each image and video clip that you witness is part of the greater
whole of the new Internet society that we all live in.
It is your voice that has made this view popular. We are all fed up with the bland and
tasteless media that is shoved down our collective throats day after day. When you go
outside and see a billboard for GAP clothing or SONY consumer devices you may not realize
that you are being programmed with each glance. We are constantly being molded, and we're
so used to it that we don't even realize it anymore.
It is their job to make you consume. To think up the most captivating and alluring
commercials to imprint the memory of the specific product they are offering to your mind.
Each individual mindshare, or thought that they imprint on you is considered a capitalist
victory. To convince us who are already content with what we already own that we need
what we don't already have.
When you call up your mother and ask her if she has seen the latest commercial
advertising khaki slacks, and you tell her how much you enjoy it when the image freezes
then pans around like magic... you are doing exactly what they want you to do.
We vote actors into office to make decisions pertaining to the survival of our race --
our race being humanity. There is no longer black or white, yellow or brown. The glorious
gift of mass communication has eradicated any once standing belief that one tribe is
superior over another. That is a benefit, not a fault.
I am a firm believer that any form of prejudice against another person based on sexual
preference, physical makeup or material wealth is an inbred weakness in our genetic
programming. The next step in our evolution is to expand past this floating ball of dirt
and spread outwards. We have done all that we can on this rock and now it is time to move
on to bigger and better things.
Our lives may be meaningless as individuals (it is our own ego that makes us think we are
important) but as a whole we do have some importance in the Grande scheme of things. If
we could only overcome our ignorance based on cosmetic differences, the time that we
spend on this festering piece of crap would be far more rewarding.
Whether you believe in God, Allah, Buddha, atoms or gargoyles, it makes no difference.
When you are dead, you are dead. You revert to where you originally came from, so don't
try and fight it.
We all have the choice to end our lives when we see fit, but suicide is just used as a
means of escape for those of us too weak to continue. We get into a state of mind -- our
brain is flooded with self-terminating chemicals that make us truly believe that now is
the time to end things, when in fact it is just the lack of serotonin or other chemicals
in our brain that makes us believe that we are doing what needs to be done. Suicide is
useless unless you are 80 years old and dying of cancer.
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all
the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look like something like the
following:
There would be:
-  57 Asians 
-  21 Europeans 
-  14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South 
-  8 Africans 
-  52 would be female 
-  48 would be male 
-  70 would be nonwhite 
-  30 would be white 
-  70 would be non-Christian 
-  30 would be Christian 
-  89 would be heterosexual 
-  11 would be homosexual 
-  6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth 
-  All 6 would be from the United States 
-  80 would live in substandard housing 
-  70 would be unable to read 
-  50 would suffer from malnutrition 
-  1 would be near death; 
-  1 would be near birth 
-  1 would have a college education 
-  1 would own a computer 
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance,
understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent. (Phillip M Harter, MD, FACEP
Stanford University, School of Medicine)
Let me reiterate in laymen's terms: Screw the status quo. Live for yourself. Be
independent from what the mainstream dictates what you should and shouldn't do. Above
all, survive.