The Alien(ation) Mindscape
Alien(ation) Mindscape
Negativity today.
Interesting in contradiction and also so terribly heartbreaking.
We are so forced to think of ourselves
as this little Atoms.
Completely self-contained,
but part of a bigger project
—only our connection is forced.
participation is involuntary.
Intravenous to the process
All of those thoughts,
That pile up like so many unpaid bills and unopened junk mail.
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and I believe this with much of modern psychology,
it’s a failure to take the collective condition into consideration,
its hyper focus on the individualism
formed by the exact superstructure, the
exact advertising agenda,
the exact social reproduction that creates things like:
the nuclear family,
like biblical marriage,
like rugged bootstraps individualism,
As if humanity has always been this way
As if we’re finally static creatures
And there is a mold for normality
Forged in modernity.
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Self,
Defined in a moment of assumed divinity
The godlike creation by PR firms,
Was the rewriting of the characteristics is the Everyman.
It’s all reinforced by a branch of “medicine”
designed to prod the mind,
To prescribe away problems
With chemical shckles
in a country,
which is literally
fighting wars of cognition
Battlefields brain,
Theatre of the mind
Not even internal land is immune to colonialism.
Our inner worlds are not sacred
But just another market to stake a claim to
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So, all of those negative self-thoughts
Mediated through consciousness,
are rooted in an individual failure
But the instruction for failure is baked into the message.
It is the toxic poisoned wine
Like kings of old in struggles of power,
Used to usurp one another.
But our new kings don’t wear crowns,
they have logos,
brand recognition,
and apps.
And an accord among them
to only poison the resistance to their rule
Silicon Valley below their Mount Olympus.
from the perspective of the individual, Every message received willingly or unwillingly is designed to focus self on self and then self on self deprecation,
but from an outside observer what it looks like,
— after Redpill
Neo
One
Anew
Awake not woke,
Objective of objectivity—
If we group our people into tribes,
if we group our people in to their communities,
into their states,
into their nation even.
We can see our potential power and our greater numbers.
Yet we choose
To bathe in the Lethe,
Dream and forget
Alone.
What I see… is a profound sense of alienation from our humanity,
from out historical brilliance.
We only got here, to modernity, by the individuals moving as group.
By the multiplying effect of cooperation.
By existing in our natural order.
Yet, We are bombarded every day with ads to tell us
to do more,
to be more,
to give more than 100% of ourselves,
to do the impossible.
And the impossible leaves us feeling powerless.
Creates a void
The unknowable empty space
Unless we redefine our universe.
This isn’t an easy task.
The impossible leaves us always feeling less than
This.
The only thing possible about the impossible is to eradicate it.
To destroy the Other
Is self-actuality
And to accept it’s impossibility
And negate the void.
The militant effort to own our thoughts
is the mental equivalent of COVID-19.
Perhaps even more contagious and pervasive, because unlike a pandemic,
The propagation of this mind virus is being intentionally spread.
So it’s no wonder, when we see the impossible people,
the impossible luxury,
the impossible slice of society as spectacle—
represented by the images barrage
mental bombardment we take in every single second,
of course they seem alien.
They don’t represent our reality
but a manufactured one,
an impossible one we are told to strive toward.
of course it looks like another planet
of course we don’t relate to it.
We aren’t allowed in those hallowed halls.
And it’s working exactly as intended.
In every single story,
when humanity is faced with an alien threat,
it bands together to destroy it.
So why do we allow this alien world under rule of oligarchs and plutocrats
to continue to exist?
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