Liberation Can only Come from Within
A recent mega shopping mall's ceiling collapse has riled me that Singaporeans are excited as if a national monument has been vandalised? Oh my, I am not nonchalant, pray no one gets hurt. But what is a shopping mall?
My definition it's no different from a cemetery (yes in case you havn't notice, I am a freak and a weirdo). For many years I have stopped exploring malls just because they are all the same, own by the same franchise, selling things you dont need. Oh really? Yes really. People have been groomed to live for others in society, so that there is consumption, and then there is trade, and thus the need for governance for this precious cycle of human activity. Its a really quite a phenomenon if you look at it from a weirdo's point of view! (Or whose the weirdo?)
Weirdo Test Questions:-
1. Who likes to dress up in monkey suits all day, spend time doing something call work and looking forward to getting home at the end of the day?
2. Do you think dress up in monkey suits makes you look confident and powerful?
3. Do you feel comfortable wearing that same monkey suit in the comfort of you home? Why not wear it all day?
4. If work is something you enjoy you tell yourself, why do you need to take holidays?
5. Why do you learn skills that are only relevant to work, but cannot be applied to yourself? Does your family enjoy seeing you work? Are you training for the circus?
6. If all commerce shuts down, can you find food and cook yourself? Are you doomed living in the wild? (most people says commerce has infiltrated all round the world, this is not an issue, DHL delivers everywhere) Ya but does DHL delivers within 3 days before you die of hunger, or can you hunt or find food within 3 days?
Question 6 seems the least of people's worries, where most place such great importance on questions 1 to 5, which is most relevant as long as commerce is there to keep things going. So the world goes, propping up this cycle of human activity to keep humans occupied. Grinding humanity to the ground, devoid of basic survival skills, devoid of the need to think about the future, holding on to the holy grail of human civilisation, commerce of human activity.
Of course its too extreme to disassociate oneself entirely from mainstream human activity, one would be living in misery and physical hardships in an environment so well endowed and easy to go by, just pick up a few social skills, earns what one needs and enjoy life just the same. But alas, the greed of humans, marketing makes one thinks one needs more than is needed to get buy, you need that perfume, you need that suit, you need that car, you need that jacuzzi, you need that massage chair!!! Advertising have us buying shit we dont need, and working jobs we hated (quote from the movie "Fight Club") And in fact some people are living in misery instead of the hermit because of their material pursuits, injected by imaginary botox happiness. End of the day, advertising just tells them the true calling of all humans, you need tons of money for a retirement in a fishing village, sitting by the beach, sipping nice cold lemonade!!!
Thats why shopping malls are cemeteries to me.
My definition it's no different from a cemetery (yes in case you havn't notice, I am a freak and a weirdo). For many years I have stopped exploring malls just because they are all the same, own by the same franchise, selling things you dont need. Oh really? Yes really. People have been groomed to live for others in society, so that there is consumption, and then there is trade, and thus the need for governance for this precious cycle of human activity. Its a really quite a phenomenon if you look at it from a weirdo's point of view! (Or whose the weirdo?)
Weirdo Test Questions:-
1. Who likes to dress up in monkey suits all day, spend time doing something call work and looking forward to getting home at the end of the day?
2. Do you think dress up in monkey suits makes you look confident and powerful?
3. Do you feel comfortable wearing that same monkey suit in the comfort of you home? Why not wear it all day?
4. If work is something you enjoy you tell yourself, why do you need to take holidays?
5. Why do you learn skills that are only relevant to work, but cannot be applied to yourself? Does your family enjoy seeing you work? Are you training for the circus?
6. If all commerce shuts down, can you find food and cook yourself? Are you doomed living in the wild? (most people says commerce has infiltrated all round the world, this is not an issue, DHL delivers everywhere) Ya but does DHL delivers within 3 days before you die of hunger, or can you hunt or find food within 3 days?
Question 6 seems the least of people's worries, where most place such great importance on questions 1 to 5, which is most relevant as long as commerce is there to keep things going. So the world goes, propping up this cycle of human activity to keep humans occupied. Grinding humanity to the ground, devoid of basic survival skills, devoid of the need to think about the future, holding on to the holy grail of human civilisation, commerce of human activity.
Of course its too extreme to disassociate oneself entirely from mainstream human activity, one would be living in misery and physical hardships in an environment so well endowed and easy to go by, just pick up a few social skills, earns what one needs and enjoy life just the same. But alas, the greed of humans, marketing makes one thinks one needs more than is needed to get buy, you need that perfume, you need that suit, you need that car, you need that jacuzzi, you need that massage chair!!! Advertising have us buying shit we dont need, and working jobs we hated (quote from the movie "Fight Club") And in fact some people are living in misery instead of the hermit because of their material pursuits, injected by imaginary botox happiness. End of the day, advertising just tells them the true calling of all humans, you need tons of money for a retirement in a fishing village, sitting by the beach, sipping nice cold lemonade!!!
Thats why shopping malls are cemeteries to me.
posted by Biker's World Editors at 9:19 AM
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