Thin ice

Now that I'd seen that fly on the window sill, and have jotted down and uploaded that short zen-like thing, you might even think that this is the long version of it. At least it hit me now, as I've just done it.

Anyhow, the story that I've kept here for a while is about this burger place owner who said about a little guy, that was going around and talking to everyone and anyone there while waiting with his Mom to get the food, that he'd be living even on thin ice. He will yet find a pretty girl and then he'll be able to live under any circumstances.

Well, right here I don't want to go into details why the owner felt like adding that last part, as he also had a girl behind the counter, and another one in the kitchen, and who knows how many others at different places there or other places in his life. If you see what I mean, who makes the living for whom, after all.

The way I see it, the problem is not that people are not able to survive. They do try, and rather hard also. The problem is that they're systematically being robbed of all their chances, no matter what and how hard they try. While others use that situation for their advantage. And this has nothing to do with making your living even under hard conditions. This is but the total contrary of live and let others live. That's what it is. But now that I started, let me take it somewhat further.

It's not like we have to help ourselves and the rest have to get on themselves. And then we can quote one of those hundreds of good sounding, but basically absolutely unhelpful slogans to try and prove that it's all your fault if you're not able to get above the system that you're just as much a part of as anyone else around you.

The system was NOT made for YOU to succeed. Even if you made it, and think you're finally there. No, that only means you gave in. But it's neither like if you can't help me, then you rather try to fix your own problems first, because unless you can do that, you can't help me either.

Until we don't change the very world we have created for ourselves, there's no possible way to get out of our misery, exactly because there's a natural way how the real world that we're living in, can survive. And no matter how much we're trying to prove that it can exist also otherwise, and even better with our "help" - which is only disturbance and nuance to it, that it has never asked for -, there's only one way to live together.

And that is not a hidden mistery or something like that. You don't even have to have a university degree to understand it. Just use your own intelligence born with you, right in order to survive. And this is also something that we have been robbed of so long and so purposefully by this consumer world and all of its lies: our own common sense.

That's how we can be turned against each other, when we're successfully convinced by the profit-makers that we cannot live without their toys, and that we have to serve their system to make our own living. Which basically means that we give even that little money back to them again and again, so it will never be ours. Simply because it does not exist, not in their hands, and not in ours; it's only a game, and a self-distructing one. As you can see that so well from examples like the so-called economical crisis.

Co-existing can be reached and kept up first of all, by accepting and respecting each other as people, by understanding we are all the same, regardless sex, color, nationality, religion, and all these things we ourselves started to use and abuse so effectively, but only to result in the sorrow world we're living and suffering in. And yet we're still trying to blame it on each other, instead of starting to change it together.

Do you think it is really shocking that Grace Jones is dancing naked on the open scene? She's been doing that for so long, maybe only in little clubs and not on huge stages. And why, there are so very many women who can (nearly) only make their living this way, even if they're as intelligent as her. Simply because this is one of the consequences of the rules we've set up for our own little world on this planet.

For the very same reason I don't support today's superficial gay movements, and especially not their parades at all. Making whores out of men wouldn't help it all. How can you ask for respect, or even being accepted when you shake your butts naked in public? Sexuality, and private life, as also its name suggests is for our own and only our discreet personal relationships, and no-one else has anything to do with them.

To make it public, or as they like to put it, to come out, is to let yourself get all confused and everyone else, too, about reality. Which is that it is your own life, and exactly this part of it has nothing to do with anyone else in the world, but your lovers and you. Exactly as you usually don't talk in public about your close friends and what you're doing in your private time. Or if you do, then it's definitely not private at all, but a superficial something to show that you have that, too, like everyone else, so you fit in, and now you also follow the rules.

You know what it means to make your private life public? It's nothing else but to let yourself being robbed of your personality, and to make you being controllable and giving up yourself completely to those who couldn't get this close to you before the time of the so-called social forums (like this one, for example).

Don't you think there is a connection between everything? Even when the knob on your chest's drawer falls off again, and you think how much you paid for it to get it fixed, or for the new one, or anything else, to that matter. It all comes to one thing: profit versus us. Either way you go, until you take part in this, you follow their rules.

We are not machines, but we have needs like them, and we have to be maintained like them. But it seemed that we were less easy to be ruled than them, so the industrialisation started. And then the age of computers, and so the mainstream use of computers with human work force. Simply because this seems to be the easiest way to make more profit with less expence, investment and effort.

Most people would after all give up anyone else around them, simply to avoid experiencing the same. As if that really means they prevent anything by doing so. On the contrary, they only support the rules of those who try to use us as mindless and soulless machines, or only figments of them.

It is definitely not an achievement, and it is not the future, I hope. Do YOU want a future where you're a mere cogwheel, and are even supposed to be proud of it, to serve a self-destroying system that destroys you and even the very hope of a liveable future? How far we can go on like this, living up all the natural resources of this world, including oil, coal, and minerals, without replacing them, so that we support the balance where we took them from? And at the same time we're using up our very selves, instead of relying on the natural balance and our common sense to live together with our environment and each other without killing everything and everyone, as proud and important ones.

Yes, it can still go on for a while, and the numbers only matters for those who make profit of it. But also for them only until they will have to face that from nothing there is nothing they can gain. However the order has to be maintained, if not naturally then artificially; either with dictatorship and wars, or with commercialism and loans.

People like me who used to spend a bit more time thinking, and when they come to some conclusions they share it with others in this or that way, used to be called thinkers or philosophers. Have you heard that word about someone recently? I haven't, for sure. The only word I've heard: "Do as you're told!" and also, in a not so hidden way: "And shut the fuck up! Don't think we're interested in your opinion" Now, there's your brave new and tediously sick world.

These days if someone is thinking, they're looked upon as useless folk, as dreamers and idealists. Well, not only today, I know that. And we even have funny expressions to show that philosophising about something leads only to nothing. No, and you know why? Because until something is done about it, it only stays ideas, and not actions: that simple.

But I'll never stay out and tell anything like this in Hyde Park, or spread it in secret like Goldstein, so no-one will really know whether I exist or not. And that is because I know very well that unless someone comes to this conclusion, I or anyone else can tell whatever they like, there will be no effect on others. And you have a great one.