Wizard talking...closely?
I walked pass an ATM machine today. There was a recently installed CCTV-ish camera on top of it. For our own safety, of course.
It makes me wonder, though, safety from what? Safety from the minorities and criminals. Safety from controversy and open-mindedness. Safety, from ourselves.
Laws form the playground, the frame if you will, in which we're allowed to freely play. Laws are set by the governing entities, which the majority has elected. Laws create a clear and definite space of freedom, equal to all. Oh, what a nice dream.
That's as far from reality as one could possibly get. The only laws we have are there, so that those setting the laws may benefit from them. Even murder is fucking justified, if a state or a giant corporation condones it(war, exploitation etc). There are no laws in our society, at least not by the definition; there are only rules set by wealthy men to prevent the uprising of the weak.
There is only one rule: there are no rules
And so the bullies get on top, and they set the rules. They make their word law, and back it up with brute force and charisma. Fear and oppression, that's what we live in today. Fear for the fictional majority. Fear for the wealthy. Fear for the norm.
Before our modern era, there were wealthy nobles and mad kings setting the rules to their own benefits, backing them up with God. Today, it
is the giant corporations backing their laws up with money. Money: The ticket to freedom and happiness.
Money: The self-created prison of paranoia and anxiety.
The laws will never be set in a just way. Never will we all be chained equally by them, for it is only those with enough determination and greed that may climb to those levels in the social hierarchy.
And greed is seldom seen hand in hand with benevolence.
My home, my temple, my rules. I can put a camera in my home if I wish to. And apparently, the corporations may do the same.
They bought the world
-and we gave it away
It makes me wonder, though, safety from what? Safety from the minorities and criminals. Safety from controversy and open-mindedness. Safety, from ourselves.
Laws form the playground, the frame if you will, in which we're allowed to freely play. Laws are set by the governing entities, which the majority has elected. Laws create a clear and definite space of freedom, equal to all. Oh, what a nice dream.
That's as far from reality as one could possibly get. The only laws we have are there, so that those setting the laws may benefit from them. Even murder is fucking justified, if a state or a giant corporation condones it(war, exploitation etc). There are no laws in our society, at least not by the definition; there are only rules set by wealthy men to prevent the uprising of the weak.
There is only one rule: there are no rules
And so the bullies get on top, and they set the rules. They make their word law, and back it up with brute force and charisma. Fear and oppression, that's what we live in today. Fear for the fictional majority. Fear for the wealthy. Fear for the norm.
Before our modern era, there were wealthy nobles and mad kings setting the rules to their own benefits, backing them up with God. Today, it
is the giant corporations backing their laws up with money. Money: The ticket to freedom and happiness.
Money: The self-created prison of paranoia and anxiety.
The laws will never be set in a just way. Never will we all be chained equally by them, for it is only those with enough determination and greed that may climb to those levels in the social hierarchy.
And greed is seldom seen hand in hand with benevolence.
My home, my temple, my rules. I can put a camera in my home if I wish to. And apparently, the corporations may do the same.
They bought the world
-and we gave it away
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