reality of modern life

… is totally illusory.

Nothing much is what it seems today, and from the look of it there most likely never was, and never will be, much of anything real in our modern world.

Reality shows are popular in many circles, which isn't all that surprising. Such shows are about as close to reality most modern humans are comfortable with.

Modern life is in itself a whole series of reality shows, and those who are uncomfortable with one show can always find another, equally awful, to live in. Choosing one or another is pretty much obligatory for the modern man, as otherwise he will be totally out of touch with our illusory reality.

the show must go on…

Many hundred religions and other political directions too choose from and blend to taste. Also plenty of not so well preserved and distasteful blends for those in need of something, or someone, to dislike, to blame, and to fight.

No need to have a personal view on, or opinion about, anything in life, as we can buy ready-made and fully processed views and opinions on every street corner. Many are even given away for “free”, although the price-tag is in most cases just kept out of sight till it is too late to decline and turn away.

All media are literally “full of it” day in and day out, so we do not even have to leave our livingrooms to get our daily doses of utter nonsense from our favorite sources.
They even repeat the same crap week after week, month after month, year after year, in case we missed some. Aren't we lucky‥‽

unpleasant reality checks

While the modern man is living in relative comfort, someone somewhere is suffering, and dying, in order to feed us and support our illusory lives. Poor souls…
Most of their efforts are lost to modern middle-men, in modern post-production, and on oh-so modern garbage heaps. But, we rather not think about that since it may lead to a feeling of discomfort.

“Out of sight, out of mind”, works wonders for the modern man, and I cannot say I blame him, or myself. After all, we did not come up with these plots, some much more greedy and cynical humans were, and still are, in control of that.

Modern life is illusory indeed, and even if we wanted to there is only so much we can do to improve things. A pity so few of us seem to know, or care, about the reality behind these shows we are living in though, as wide-spread awareness would make a real difference.

free as a bird

I am literally free as a bird in how I look at the world, being it the illusory or the real one. Amazing what can be seen from a higher vantage point, not all of it pleasant.

The modern world doesn't have much to offer but some more or less gilded cages and plenty suffering, but as long as I'm living in it I'm gonna do what serves me best, and continue to speak up against what I regard as wrong. Won't run out of subjects anytime soon.

Makes no difference to me if anybody listens. It is their choice to make, not mine. The day this freethinker can no longer shape his own thoughts and speak his mind as and when he sees fit, he is most likely dead. It's as simple as that.

Don't forget to have fun…

sincerely georg; sign

Hageland 05.dec.2017
last rev: 05.dec.2017

time is running, fast

For God's (or whoever's) sake, we must keep up with time, as otherwise we'll be missing out on something that is deemed important by someone somewhere.
Whoever that someone is and why that something is so important, will always be in the fog. This is our illusory reality though, and time is running…

Never stop to think about the stupidity of it all, as thinking is both over-rated and a totally unnecessary waste of time for us in the s.c. working classes.
Our allotted purpose in life is to produce and consume, and otherwise shut up and pay all we have and then some to the leading classes for the right to live on the same earth as them, for a while.

We are at most allowed … well, actually encouraged, to share distractions on social media. Having us (more or less) voluntarily profile ourselves in the open, makes it so much easier for corporations with shit to sell to target us programmatically – no ethics involved.

Not playing by the rules set by the “wise ones”, isn't “nice”. We may be punished for that by having our rights to express ourselves publicly taken away from us.
That does of course mean that neither of us had such rights to begin with, but who has time to care about such “minor details”.

mindfully playing mindless games

Not many of us can manage to stay outside it all – at least not for long. Whether we intend to, or not, we participate in these games from the day we are born, and are playing the same games as everyone else does until we die.

Which of the many games and shows we participate in, does matter though. Some are definitely more harmful than others, so unless doing harm is our thing we better be mindful of those.

Not to worry: whatever game you choose to stay in or stay out of, you will inevitably manage to piss someone off just by being around. Mankind is rigged that way, and our modern illusory reality does nothing to lessen this inherited mindset.

It was not much better before, but it was easier to distance oneself from the madness a few decades ago. One could also find a few sane bubbles back then, something that is near impossible today.

Lots of frustration around, as most people can see, or at least feel, that something is terribly wrong both locally and globally. What it is and what to do about it is not very clear to most of these people though, and that causes even more frustration.

Being frustrated doesn't solve anything, and only makes us make the wrong decisions for all the wrong reasons. As long as we do not expect positive returns on any investments we happen to make in these games, we'll be doing alright.