The Current State of Our Society

The Current State of Our Society

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.