Blind deaf hamsters
Eagerly waiting for their masters
To feed them deceit
*
Eagerly praying for masters
To teach them crime
And destroy their fleet
*
Blind deaf hamsters
Useless scared peasants
On the darkness they breed
*
Blind deaf hamsters
Drunk with illusion
Lost in the seas
*
Blind deaf hamsters
Are nobody else
But the people we are
The once human
The once free
Ripped of passion
Deprived of dreams
Walking talking in sleep
*
Nothing now
No more
Nothing but hamsters
This useless are we
living in a flat, a place to eat, a place where you sit in front of a big box, to see moving pictures and sound, and make you imagine, so that you laugh and cry, and make friends and enemies, all in imagination, in total deceit, then you go to a gym so you run without really running, and you walk without really walking, and then you go to a fast food joint, and you eat food which is not really food, you get taste that remind you of the taste of the food, it is junk, it is the age of junk, because even the jokes of the people are junk, as junk as the fashion and the punky hair styles. Hip is the word, the great value, that has no real value.
money lost its value, because money buys nothing but plastic gadgets that give you more deciet, or it can offer you a junk type of love that has a down payment, and monthly fee, even knowledge is not a light anymore, it is the key by which you open the money safe, it is a potential money.
we are blind deaf hamsters, in the eyes of the truth, but we might not see that, because we dont really know how to see.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
Crysis: Postmodernsim
The time has come, to distinguish one of the most captivating, enslaving, and pessimistic forces, a depressive and invisible ghost that haunts our lives. The time has come to realize the facts once more, to rebuild the trust we humans once had in the word “reality”. The time has come to unleash the human potential and experience life for the first time as it has never been before, to explode the boundaries of our pleasure, and reach out to unexplored horizons of sensation and feelings that once more give us optimism, that once give us the will to live, that once more make this overwhelming force of passion blow into our faces and take us on its wild ride, to experience the forbidden feelings and values by the current post modern society.
The time has come to define the frustration we have with the post-modern society. Frustration that resides in every small corner of our lives, it is the sensation that haunts almost everything that we do, it is the frustration that is fragmented over multiple sides of our life, and hide its identity as a single source of frustration.
One might wonder why are we concerned with defining the frustration from the thing, before defining the thing itself, the answer lies in the fact the postmodernism is not an entity that could be easily highlighted as danger, it is not that clear crime that we do ourselves every day, it is still a crime though. Postmodernism is a sort of a huge complex system that we reside in its midst, and thus it is impossible for us to see its danger, infact, it is so difficult to see it in the first place.
We are making an important step that will unify humanity once again, which interestingly happens to be based on pragmatism, and Theodor Adorno’s postmodern memorylessness. This first step is the fact that all humans are facing the same problem and because of shared interests we are uniting against that. The problem is Postmodernism, and the symptom is the frustration we mentioned above. Our unity is not based on a higher noble value that lies hidden somewhere, not because of some other egalitarian romantic dream, and not because of any other meta-narrative, it is the fact that this frustration that resides in us, will bring our unity because it is a sign of a common danger that looms over us.
The frustration is born out of despair and angst that widely exists in most of us these days. The despair is the subconscious accumulation of the lack of satisfaction born from the substitution of reality with a simulated or a hyper reality. Frustration might not be so clear and easy to realize, for the large number of negative sensations dwelling inside our subconscious needs time to reach to the point to be labeled as a clear despair. The angst on the other hand is the product of the existentialist nature of the modern world; this was inherited to a certain extent in the post modern world. With these two, slowly overtaking us, slowly conquering the beauty of passion and romance, slowly erasing the humanism from humans, will result in the humanless human, a perfect example for that is the office employee, the boring, fat, lifeless, job oriented mid aged man, whose existence is not significant to anyone not even himself.
It is a very important step to realize the harm that we are getting by the post-modern condition. And perhaps a very few of us could realize this harm, or in other words, could label this array of social tendencies as a ‘harm’ because almost all of us has been part of the system since our childhood. It is some kind of a Plato’s cave metaphor once again, but the one who exits the cave here is not whom he has the intellect, it is whom who has been raised on principles not influenced or not contaminated by postmodernism.
The harm of postmodernism relates to all the negative traits we have learned due to the information revolution. It is the harm of pornography, meaningless musical video clips, fast food, disoriented mass media, drugs, techno music. It is the morbid cultural waves that have been around since the end of the 60’s. The harm of the postmodernism doesn’t end here, it starts here. Post-modernism generates what Jean Baudrillard and Albert Borgmann refer to as Hypperreality. The latter concept refers to the process in which information technology simulates reality to the point that it becomes reality itself, and real reality loses its location in our conscious and becomes blurred together in one unit with illusion. Baudrillard refer to that as the simulacrum.
When the purpose of information technology shifts from providing information, to the provision of the means of acquiring information, it is attacking our own brain faculties, infact it is putting our most important faculty -that defines us as humans, the reasoning faculty- in danger.
The post modern danger as a form of psychological instability has been generated by the transformation of the most basic concepts of life. Loytard referred to the transformation of knowledge into a form of a commodity, and the knower is no longer someone to be trained, yet he is the consumer. Fredric Jameson and Baudrillard highlight the fact that in postmodernism, cultural and symbolic icons have became one of the most important commodities. If it has been a luxury in the romantic age, and it has been a source of entertainment in the modern age (pre postmodern), now it is a need, a basic and an important need. Musical albums, Movies and TV series have become a significant part of our lives, and a giant industry, and what does this symbolism and cultural commodities provide, Information? No! It provides templates of perception itself, it teach us how to look at things, rather than being a thing in itself, it provide the fuel for hyperrealism.
If Post-modernism was some kind of a disease, the symptoms of this disease is blurriness and vagueness, that creates tendency to shallowness. Interestingly its philosophy is of the same blurriness and lack of clarity, yet it is a deeply organized and sophisticated, perhaps it is the first doctrine that plays with the way thoughts are thought, rather than thoughts itself, it plays with the way languages work rather than words itself, with symbols rather than concepts, it deals with subconscious rather than conscious.
It is a system that regulates the division of the society and the decline of the personal level of realization and intellect, it is a danger on humanity, it is a virus that resides on technology, and kills its mother: civilization.
The time has come to define the frustration we have with the post-modern society. Frustration that resides in every small corner of our lives, it is the sensation that haunts almost everything that we do, it is the frustration that is fragmented over multiple sides of our life, and hide its identity as a single source of frustration.
One might wonder why are we concerned with defining the frustration from the thing, before defining the thing itself, the answer lies in the fact the postmodernism is not an entity that could be easily highlighted as danger, it is not that clear crime that we do ourselves every day, it is still a crime though. Postmodernism is a sort of a huge complex system that we reside in its midst, and thus it is impossible for us to see its danger, infact, it is so difficult to see it in the first place.
We are making an important step that will unify humanity once again, which interestingly happens to be based on pragmatism, and Theodor Adorno’s postmodern memorylessness. This first step is the fact that all humans are facing the same problem and because of shared interests we are uniting against that. The problem is Postmodernism, and the symptom is the frustration we mentioned above. Our unity is not based on a higher noble value that lies hidden somewhere, not because of some other egalitarian romantic dream, and not because of any other meta-narrative, it is the fact that this frustration that resides in us, will bring our unity because it is a sign of a common danger that looms over us.
The frustration is born out of despair and angst that widely exists in most of us these days. The despair is the subconscious accumulation of the lack of satisfaction born from the substitution of reality with a simulated or a hyper reality. Frustration might not be so clear and easy to realize, for the large number of negative sensations dwelling inside our subconscious needs time to reach to the point to be labeled as a clear despair. The angst on the other hand is the product of the existentialist nature of the modern world; this was inherited to a certain extent in the post modern world. With these two, slowly overtaking us, slowly conquering the beauty of passion and romance, slowly erasing the humanism from humans, will result in the humanless human, a perfect example for that is the office employee, the boring, fat, lifeless, job oriented mid aged man, whose existence is not significant to anyone not even himself.
It is a very important step to realize the harm that we are getting by the post-modern condition. And perhaps a very few of us could realize this harm, or in other words, could label this array of social tendencies as a ‘harm’ because almost all of us has been part of the system since our childhood. It is some kind of a Plato’s cave metaphor once again, but the one who exits the cave here is not whom he has the intellect, it is whom who has been raised on principles not influenced or not contaminated by postmodernism.
The harm of postmodernism relates to all the negative traits we have learned due to the information revolution. It is the harm of pornography, meaningless musical video clips, fast food, disoriented mass media, drugs, techno music. It is the morbid cultural waves that have been around since the end of the 60’s. The harm of the postmodernism doesn’t end here, it starts here. Post-modernism generates what Jean Baudrillard and Albert Borgmann refer to as Hypperreality. The latter concept refers to the process in which information technology simulates reality to the point that it becomes reality itself, and real reality loses its location in our conscious and becomes blurred together in one unit with illusion. Baudrillard refer to that as the simulacrum.
When the purpose of information technology shifts from providing information, to the provision of the means of acquiring information, it is attacking our own brain faculties, infact it is putting our most important faculty -that defines us as humans, the reasoning faculty- in danger.
The post modern danger as a form of psychological instability has been generated by the transformation of the most basic concepts of life. Loytard referred to the transformation of knowledge into a form of a commodity, and the knower is no longer someone to be trained, yet he is the consumer. Fredric Jameson and Baudrillard highlight the fact that in postmodernism, cultural and symbolic icons have became one of the most important commodities. If it has been a luxury in the romantic age, and it has been a source of entertainment in the modern age (pre postmodern), now it is a need, a basic and an important need. Musical albums, Movies and TV series have become a significant part of our lives, and a giant industry, and what does this symbolism and cultural commodities provide, Information? No! It provides templates of perception itself, it teach us how to look at things, rather than being a thing in itself, it provide the fuel for hyperrealism.
If Post-modernism was some kind of a disease, the symptoms of this disease is blurriness and vagueness, that creates tendency to shallowness. Interestingly its philosophy is of the same blurriness and lack of clarity, yet it is a deeply organized and sophisticated, perhaps it is the first doctrine that plays with the way thoughts are thought, rather than thoughts itself, it plays with the way languages work rather than words itself, with symbols rather than concepts, it deals with subconscious rather than conscious.
It is a system that regulates the division of the society and the decline of the personal level of realization and intellect, it is a danger on humanity, it is a virus that resides on technology, and kills its mother: civilization.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
The Modern Faith
Behold!
We have reached to a point in the progress of the average human common sence, that many people can easily realize the fraud and deceit of religion. It is one of the simplest tasks that u can assign to your brain, to prove the deception of religion. And for me I consider it an act of childishness and lack of maturity, to even try to prove that, because it is like 1+1=2, and I really don’t need a whole crap of Richard Dawkins for that.
Now how would you feel, dear atheist, if I tell you that you are currently living in a bigger system of fraud and deception that is stronger than the good old religion, to the point that it is even very difficult to at least realize this fraud system.
Presenting: Postmodernism.
I am not refering to any sort of conspiracy theory, I am explaining a view that shows a hidden religion tied to the information age, the tool that harms us more than we think fellow atheist, more than any religion do, it is the system of new kind of faith that keep you like a sheep in a herd, more ever than that poor ancient religion that tried hard to!!
Postmodernism, is the definition given to explain the nature of culture in the last 25 years, or more precisely, the characteristics of the “information age” culture.
In layman language there has been so many new concept going on now a days, such as "hip" and "cool", and artist like"Madonna", TV programs such as "FRIENDS", and fast food franchise such as "McDonald's", these terms and cultural artifact are not just arbitrarily existing, they are representing a deeper structure of the postmodern society.
This terms such as "hot" and "pimpin" in its new usage is part of the language of postmodernism, it is the product to the era of “no point” or the age of pointlessness, in simple philosophical words it is:
We have reached to a point in the progress of the average human common sence, that many people can easily realize the fraud and deceit of religion. It is one of the simplest tasks that u can assign to your brain, to prove the deception of religion. And for me I consider it an act of childishness and lack of maturity, to even try to prove that, because it is like 1+1=2, and I really don’t need a whole crap of Richard Dawkins for that.
Now how would you feel, dear atheist, if I tell you that you are currently living in a bigger system of fraud and deception that is stronger than the good old religion, to the point that it is even very difficult to at least realize this fraud system.
Presenting: Postmodernism.
I am not refering to any sort of conspiracy theory, I am explaining a view that shows a hidden religion tied to the information age, the tool that harms us more than we think fellow atheist, more than any religion do, it is the system of new kind of faith that keep you like a sheep in a herd, more ever than that poor ancient religion that tried hard to!!
Postmodernism, is the definition given to explain the nature of culture in the last 25 years, or more precisely, the characteristics of the “information age” culture.
In layman language there has been so many new concept going on now a days, such as "hip" and "cool", and artist like"Madonna", TV programs such as "FRIENDS", and fast food franchise such as "McDonald's", these terms and cultural artifact are not just arbitrarily existing, they are representing a deeper structure of the postmodern society.
This terms such as "hot" and "pimpin" in its new usage is part of the language of postmodernism, it is the product to the era of “no point” or the age of pointlessness, in simple philosophical words it is:
- The age where a meta-narrative or a mass philosophy which explains everything seems to have no longer any respect
- The age where the society is fragmented into small groups of people, and although a spoken “language” exist for the whole society, it is very difficult to explains your thoughts to a person outside your fragment.
- It is the age where art doesn’t relate its form to its content, and most of the times it doesn’t have content at all. in other words, it is the age where art has no point, or shows a form that has not relation of it is content or idea.
- It is the age of no originality, and no value, the value of everything is transformed into a “dead” value of cash, anything how stupid and pointless it is, just like "jackass", would be great as long as it sells. It is a complex system that brings feed on the pointlessness and vagueness of people, and binds multiple fragments of society together, it provide the consumer base for the modern capitalist machine.
The need:
This Post modern condition is needed by capitalism itself, and its principles serves an important purpose as in no reference point provided by no meta-narrative, which means there is no way to provide absolute judgment, no way to judge as "right" or "wrong" because those are relative words after the dead of the meta-narrative.
The contemporary capitalist society, needs a huge consumer base that totally lacks any rigid personality features, that seeks refuge in its consumer value.
The need is to create people who say “I spend thus I am!”
The basic features:
A society without a personality, is what seeks refuge in consumption, a society that spends to find purpose in its life, in the end, a society that values nothing as a thing, is a society that Denys its rights, it is the labor that needs no wage, although it thinks it is living a decent life!
What am I talking about? YOU, you work a lot, no time to have a social relationship, at least a real social relations and true friendship, your love life is probably fake, you spend your money in the mall, you get drunk just to think you are happy, you go loud clubbings, you spend money on vacations you don’t really enjoy, you buy gadgets you don’t really need, you watch MTV, you basically give your money back in return of valueless stuff.
Capitalism in the age of facebook, needs a fragmented society, this is like having a society with over 200 different group of people who speaks the different languages,,who seem to speak the same but there is no way that one group understand exactly what the other is trying to say. Thus there is no way to spread consciousness and awareness, and this is the basic principle, to divide and conquer.
Maintenance:
Now that we have fragmented the society, we need to maintain this fragment; we need to always remind the people subconsciously to forget about a meta-narrative, and to stay in the small scale groups. How? Simple. Hip hop, MTV, little bit of HOLLYWOOD does that? A little bit of art that has a form that appeals, and yet, the point has no relation to it, or… there is no point at all. Yes, when raihana sings umbrella , ela, ela, eh, eh, she totally has no intention to explain any point by this stupid poetry, and yet, she still use the art form of her sexy ass, to explain this no point? So the form is sexiness, and there is no point, or the point is that she will put you under her umberla, ela, and still she shows her sexy body to explain that? Yes this is cool, this is what this term cool means, and this term, no one will understand outside this small group who watches MTV, here we go again, a fragmented society.
And though shalt sleep!
Now to finish this cycle, we have to lock it, tranquilize all people, by denying originality. In the po mo society, originality is forbidden. If you want to be cool, and stick to the trend, distort classic art, you will be welcomed, else, you wanna have your own intellect to guide you, you are a geek, and you have to perish. Easy and simple. Creativity is the source of awakenss tfor he human mind , and a creative work of art, such as beethovens, spreads a message to all humanity, to think on their own. This is forbidden now! Who listens to beethoven? Those who try to be "uncool" and emvrace their geekness, are doing a forbidden act and deserve punishment! Just like how unbelievers in catholic tradition were burned at the stakes, the ones who try to break the system of post modernism, will be burned at the stakes of the social life! What is worse than being labeled as a geek in a post-modern high school and be frowned up on by all, what’s worse than no social life, and humiliation. Exactly the same impact of public torture and execution, with very cool terms.
And now, even love is turned into a meaningless cycle of clicks and winks in facebook. This is the misery of humanity in theis age, this is how love is in the age of postmodernism, the age of facebook. This is how we became valueless people, and people without a clear goal or target, and if we had it is very personal, actually, our porpose is to work, and consume, your value, your respect in the society, depends on how much you make money, and how do you consume it, think about it, if you have a ferrari, if you have a brandnew phone, people will respect you. This is the charecter of the new faith, that keeps the industry and under the control of the new clergy and bourgeoisie together. Yes did i say bourgeoisie, they are the capital owners, did i say clergy? yes they are the faith guardians, the media people, the actors, the cool people, they are the philosphers that guards Postmodernism. So, don't we need another 14th of july?
This Post modern condition is needed by capitalism itself, and its principles serves an important purpose as in no reference point provided by no meta-narrative, which means there is no way to provide absolute judgment, no way to judge as "right" or "wrong" because those are relative words after the dead of the meta-narrative.
The contemporary capitalist society, needs a huge consumer base that totally lacks any rigid personality features, that seeks refuge in its consumer value.
The need is to create people who say “I spend thus I am!”
The basic features:
A society without a personality, is what seeks refuge in consumption, a society that spends to find purpose in its life, in the end, a society that values nothing as a thing, is a society that Denys its rights, it is the labor that needs no wage, although it thinks it is living a decent life!
What am I talking about? YOU, you work a lot, no time to have a social relationship, at least a real social relations and true friendship, your love life is probably fake, you spend your money in the mall, you get drunk just to think you are happy, you go loud clubbings, you spend money on vacations you don’t really enjoy, you buy gadgets you don’t really need, you watch MTV, you basically give your money back in return of valueless stuff.
Capitalism in the age of facebook, needs a fragmented society, this is like having a society with over 200 different group of people who speaks the different languages,,who seem to speak the same but there is no way that one group understand exactly what the other is trying to say. Thus there is no way to spread consciousness and awareness, and this is the basic principle, to divide and conquer.
Maintenance:
Now that we have fragmented the society, we need to maintain this fragment; we need to always remind the people subconsciously to forget about a meta-narrative, and to stay in the small scale groups. How? Simple. Hip hop, MTV, little bit of HOLLYWOOD does that? A little bit of art that has a form that appeals, and yet, the point has no relation to it, or… there is no point at all. Yes, when raihana sings umbrella , ela, ela, eh, eh, she totally has no intention to explain any point by this stupid poetry, and yet, she still use the art form of her sexy ass, to explain this no point? So the form is sexiness, and there is no point, or the point is that she will put you under her umberla, ela, and still she shows her sexy body to explain that? Yes this is cool, this is what this term cool means, and this term, no one will understand outside this small group who watches MTV, here we go again, a fragmented society.
And though shalt sleep!
Now to finish this cycle, we have to lock it, tranquilize all people, by denying originality. In the po mo society, originality is forbidden. If you want to be cool, and stick to the trend, distort classic art, you will be welcomed, else, you wanna have your own intellect to guide you, you are a geek, and you have to perish. Easy and simple. Creativity is the source of awakenss tfor he human mind , and a creative work of art, such as beethovens, spreads a message to all humanity, to think on their own. This is forbidden now! Who listens to beethoven? Those who try to be "uncool" and emvrace their geekness, are doing a forbidden act and deserve punishment! Just like how unbelievers in catholic tradition were burned at the stakes, the ones who try to break the system of post modernism, will be burned at the stakes of the social life! What is worse than being labeled as a geek in a post-modern high school and be frowned up on by all, what’s worse than no social life, and humiliation. Exactly the same impact of public torture and execution, with very cool terms.
And now, even love is turned into a meaningless cycle of clicks and winks in facebook. This is the misery of humanity in theis age, this is how love is in the age of postmodernism, the age of facebook. This is how we became valueless people, and people without a clear goal or target, and if we had it is very personal, actually, our porpose is to work, and consume, your value, your respect in the society, depends on how much you make money, and how do you consume it, think about it, if you have a ferrari, if you have a brandnew phone, people will respect you. This is the charecter of the new faith, that keeps the industry and under the control of the new clergy and bourgeoisie together. Yes did i say bourgeoisie, they are the capital owners, did i say clergy? yes they are the faith guardians, the media people, the actors, the cool people, they are the philosphers that guards Postmodernism. So, don't we need another 14th of july?
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