Resistance to the end

[matrixmann]

What would somebody say who died 10 years ago about the fuss that takes place today?
In politics as well as society as well as technology - how things in general developed during the last decade?
Would he think "the better that I have died, that's even worse than when I was still alive"?
Or would he say "I should have stayed, just to try to make a change in all these things"?
What about somebody who killed himself?
Would he be happy about his deed?
Would he scream in horror how the world has become, compared to 10 years ago?
What would his words be about Facebook, about streaming, about the current state the world is in - the economical crisis, the West's fight with Russia, the war in Syria, Libya, newly grown information sources that didn't exist back then?
Also, what would he say about culture, about current trends? About the rise of German Schlager, the dropping in the background of Hiphop, the rise of softened Electro House and the current remake mania in Hollywood?
What would he say if he heard that now it's a trend for the lost youth to travel to the Middle East and play "Call Of Duty" for real - voluntarily?

Sometimes it would be better if someone was alive again who didn't follow all these developments, just to give you a more distanced opinion, free from the political correctness of today, free from the frames and shapes which society and public likes to think in during current times.
Having been gone opens a door to potentially give you new ideas. Ideas you wouldn't have if you talked to somebody who's a child of his time and narrow-minded as the current episode is.
Too long ago may become a problem as the changes over 20 and 30 years or more are too huge for someone to comprehend in a small amount of time. There would be the danger of becoming overwhelmed by impressions.
Many things changed in a longer episode of time.

But even during the last 10 years, you have some things which totally took a major development, while you have others where you would say "business as usual". Nothing has changed.
The stupification of mankind hasn't stopped, quite the opposite, it has increased. Through the invention of smartphones and social media shifting from a text-based to a photo- and video-based issue. Bullying and mobbing hasn't vanished from the face of the earth, its results only have become quieter and no-one talks about it anymore loudly. Children themselves don't take a gun into their hands anymore nessecarily to make it known.
Adults don't have more time for their offspring, they even whip themselves some more and force themselves onto their place of work.
Poverty didn't disappear. And the rich have even grown richer than they used to be.
The only thing that maybe has become different, making an interesting change in the pack of cards, that keeping secrets has become more critical for the states. Not only is it more of an importance for them to survive than before, but also the means to do it need to scatter because it is more likely that somebody might get something out and show it to the public. Not all people entrusted with confidential information still agree on or are convinced of keeping their secrets anymore.
Also, there has grown an echo chamber which specialized in picking these things up and spread it as their own propaganda, just like you're used to it from the notorious usual suspects.
This changes the game of what to believe and what not to believe.

Someone who died earlier and was sick of this system might find its joy with the new circumstances...

Comments

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

One could have gone and lived in the woods, like mandarinsun was reading a book about and then come back to reality.

Actually, it is probably normal, this is exactly objective way of social development. As the crisis is deepening there is more reason for change. I know people have changed with social media and mass media influencing them, but only to degree. In general, everyone needs to eat and have shelter and this is the decisive factor of surviving and if one wants to survive they will have to change the world.

[matrixmann]

...You can run away into the woods if it works for you. If you are the "natural"-type that knows nothing better than how to build a house from your own hands, how to get something to eat from nature, and how to live without the modern pleasures civilization has to offer, as well as if you can sustain yourself without the help of modern medicine.
But, on deeper thought, isn't running away into the woods also some kind of saying "somebody else shall do it for me"? You know, like giving up, giving in, and passing on the task to change something in a bigger extent to someone else? The "next one in row"? It only looks differently to burying one's head in the sand like most people do - or telling yourself certain circumstances don't exist.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Since humans are social animals I think surviving in the woods would be rather an exception than a norm. One and the same person cannot be a doctor and engineer and cobbler and tailor etc. So surviving on your own is pretty much impossible. Even prehistoric people figured out that they need someone to stay and keep fire while the other one hunts. And even with that their life expectancy was like 25 years old. We are at the point when the division of labor makes it pretty much impossible to survive on your own because we depend on other people so heavily.

[matrixmann]

That's what I would have thought too...
Nothing with the running away anymore. You've gotta go and try what you think you can do. Running away maybe uses you as a single person privately, but the whole system is not gonna change just from you running away out of it. The rest of all have got to spend with it too.
So to say... If you want some "pain" gone from the shoulders of many, you've got to stay and try to make shit happen yourself.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Exactly. And everyone needs to understand this.