There has been an awakening. Can you feel it? What you feel you cannot explain. Yet it is there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. What has been dormant in the depths of my mind can no longer be contained.
I know it's a cliché to drop movie quotes into a blog post but there is a reason for that, as there is a reason for everything. To quote Star Wars and the Matrix seems most appropriate to explain the war going on in my head.
I can feel it. The force. It's energy surrounds us. It binds us. I can feel it pulling me in. To the dark side, or to the light, I have yet to discover which. But it is there nonetheless, tugging at my soul, moving me into a place where I told myself I would not revisit. This blog. This curse. It consumes me, holding my reality hostage, stripping me of all that which makes me feel alive. This blog once consumed me, everything I am. It put a strain on my marriage. It distorted reality. It turned me into something I am not. Now it calls to me once again. And I'm frightened.
What is the Matrix? Control. A false reality designed to turn a human beings into this...
I realize that in the movie human beings are being turned into batteries, not sheep. But in this case, sheep seems more accurate.
The Matrix. It is real. Not in the sense that you may think. Though plausible, we are not jacked into some computer generated dream world, as depicted in the movie. But our eyes are being blinded from the truth. The world around us is not as it seems. I know this to be true. I've felt it my whole life. Some of you may have too.
I know it's a cliché to drop movie quotes into a blog post but there is a reason for that, as there is a reason for everything. To quote Star Wars and the Matrix seems most appropriate to explain the war going on in my head.
I can feel it. The force. It's energy surrounds us. It binds us. I can feel it pulling me in. To the dark side, or to the light, I have yet to discover which. But it is there nonetheless, tugging at my soul, moving me into a place where I told myself I would not revisit. This blog. This curse. It consumes me, holding my reality hostage, stripping me of all that which makes me feel alive. This blog once consumed me, everything I am. It put a strain on my marriage. It distorted reality. It turned me into something I am not. Now it calls to me once again. And I'm frightened.
What is the Matrix? Control. A false reality designed to turn a human beings into this...
I realize that in the movie human beings are being turned into batteries, not sheep. But in this case, sheep seems more accurate.
The Matrix. It is real. Not in the sense that you may think. Though plausible, we are not jacked into some computer generated dream world, as depicted in the movie. But our eyes are being blinded from the truth. The world around us is not as it seems. I know this to be true. I've felt it my whole life. Some of you may have too.
The force is real, but not in the sense you may think. Though plausible, there are not light sabre wielding warriors with telekinetic powers out there fighting an epic space battle. But someone has used the old Jedi mind trick on the world. "These aren't the droids you're looking for. Move along."
It's all real. The force is an energy that moves through all living things. It binds us together. I've felt it. Some of you may have too. A deep connection with the world around you. I've talked to trees. I've listened to them, heard their stories. Swayed with them. I understand them well. They are magnificent beings. Though I fear not enough people console the trees.
Dogs are wonderful creatures too. They are great for those just beginning their journey towards understanding the force. Surely some of you have had a deep, profound connection with a dog before? To look deep within its those sad but loving eyes. To know its desires...to feel its pain. To feel its power. To be at one with the dog.
There has been an awakening. And I'm afraid. I've felt it. The anger. The disconnect. The frustration. It's all there, like a splinter in my mind, driving me mad.
What I know I cannot explain. But I've felt my entire life. There are forces out there, evil forces, that have the shades pulled over our eyes, blinding us from the truth.
The dark side, it's creeping in. When I was active on this blog I let it consume me. My world revolved around being Workingdan. I isolated myself. Shut out my loved ones. Poured out my heart into this blog, leaving my soul naked and exposed. And so I ran, vowing to never come back.
Yet, here I am. Gravitated towards that in which I fought so hard to resist. I have endlessly searched the deepest recesses of my mind to understand what pulls me into this dark place.
Is it social media? This has had such an impact on the course of man, and how we interact with each other. It is a disturbance in the force. It has created a disconnect with all that makes us human. Too many people now have a voice. It is a platform to spread anger and hate into this world. People say and do things on social media that they otherwise would never say or do out in the real world. I'm no exception.
Social media has disrupted the balance of the force. Instead of feeling the force flow through us, we are colliding with each other. We have become detached from each other. Divided. It has given us all a voice, and has taken our voice away. It's madness.
Perhaps it is politics that have invoked these feelings I have tried so hard to suppress. Anger. I look at the governments of the world. I see through them. The lies. The corruption. The constant barrage of propaganda pouring out through our tv screens, through social media, through all our wonderful devices and gadgets they have given us.
They dictate every aspect of our lives, down to the foods we eat, what we do in our bedrooms, who we pray to. They tell us what to think, how to feel, what to dream for. We are slaves.
We. Are. Slaves. We are born into it. We are programmed at birth to be a part of a system. "There are fields, Neo, endless fields where we are no longer born, we are grown."
Go to school, get an education, get a job, and achieve the American dream, they tell us. More like subject yourselves to our programming, and go out there and be a good slave.
Try as we may to be individuals, we are merely numbers. A product. We provide services to a power we don't understand. We give into that system until we expire. In our wake we leave behind a new generation of product and services.
We live in an age of information. But how do we determine if that information is real? What if the information that we have was put out there to deceive us? To blind us from the truth?
The great deception. It's driving us all into madness. We seek answers that nobody can answer. Is God real? Or are we deceived into believing so as a means of control? Sure, some things happen that could be dubbed as miracles. But are they really miracles? Or just more deceptions? Like magicians for instance. There is no such thing as magic, only elaborate deceptions.
We ask questions with no definitive answers. All we have are theories, riddled with false information. But why do we ask ourselves such questions?
There has been an awakening. Can you feel it? Something is not right with this world. You know it to be true. You've felt it your entire life. Like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.
You want to resist the power it has over you. But you don't know how. All you know is that you have to go to work in the morning. If you don't, you won't have enough money to provide for your family. You have all these activities you must accomplish throughout each and every day, because you've been told that you must live a busy life. Get your kids to school, take them to ball practice, and then games. Buy things. Buy lots of things that occupy your time. Things that distract you from what's going on in the world around you. Yes spend. Consume. That is your purpose.
You can feel it. When you go to work. When you go to church. When you pay your taxes. The world is not what it seems.
They say knowledge is power. This may be true in some instances. For me, it is a curse. It deprives me of human emotion. It forces me into a world of isolation. I know I'm not alone, yet I have never felt so lonely.
We all have felt the disturbance in the force. But we do not act on it. We have become complacent, content with going about our day pretending all is well. So long as we are still alive, that's all that matters.
More and more people are waking up to these harsh truths we face. But frustration sets in because we have developed a counterproductive way to expose these truths to the blind....by posting our frustrations on social media, sending our complaints out into a digital void where they are harvested, distorted, and then regurgitated back into the world as a false narrative.
We have exposed ourselves, given away our weaknesses. We have tipped our hands to the enemy, informing them of what fears they can play off of when they pump us full of their mind-controlling propaganda.
The balance of the force favors the dark side.
There has been an awakening. Can you feel it?
What I know I cannot explain. But I've felt my entire life. There are forces out there, evil forces, that have the shades pulled over our eyes, blinding us from the truth.
The dark side, it's creeping in. When I was active on this blog I let it consume me. My world revolved around being Workingdan. I isolated myself. Shut out my loved ones. Poured out my heart into this blog, leaving my soul naked and exposed. And so I ran, vowing to never come back.
Yet, here I am. Gravitated towards that in which I fought so hard to resist. I have endlessly searched the deepest recesses of my mind to understand what pulls me into this dark place.
Is it social media? This has had such an impact on the course of man, and how we interact with each other. It is a disturbance in the force. It has created a disconnect with all that makes us human. Too many people now have a voice. It is a platform to spread anger and hate into this world. People say and do things on social media that they otherwise would never say or do out in the real world. I'm no exception.
Social media has disrupted the balance of the force. Instead of feeling the force flow through us, we are colliding with each other. We have become detached from each other. Divided. It has given us all a voice, and has taken our voice away. It's madness.
Perhaps it is politics that have invoked these feelings I have tried so hard to suppress. Anger. I look at the governments of the world. I see through them. The lies. The corruption. The constant barrage of propaganda pouring out through our tv screens, through social media, through all our wonderful devices and gadgets they have given us.
They dictate every aspect of our lives, down to the foods we eat, what we do in our bedrooms, who we pray to. They tell us what to think, how to feel, what to dream for. We are slaves.
We. Are. Slaves. We are born into it. We are programmed at birth to be a part of a system. "There are fields, Neo, endless fields where we are no longer born, we are grown."
Go to school, get an education, get a job, and achieve the American dream, they tell us. More like subject yourselves to our programming, and go out there and be a good slave.
Try as we may to be individuals, we are merely numbers. A product. We provide services to a power we don't understand. We give into that system until we expire. In our wake we leave behind a new generation of product and services.
We live in an age of information. But how do we determine if that information is real? What if the information that we have was put out there to deceive us? To blind us from the truth?
The great deception. It's driving us all into madness. We seek answers that nobody can answer. Is God real? Or are we deceived into believing so as a means of control? Sure, some things happen that could be dubbed as miracles. But are they really miracles? Or just more deceptions? Like magicians for instance. There is no such thing as magic, only elaborate deceptions.
We ask questions with no definitive answers. All we have are theories, riddled with false information. But why do we ask ourselves such questions?
There has been an awakening. Can you feel it? Something is not right with this world. You know it to be true. You've felt it your entire life. Like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.
You want to resist the power it has over you. But you don't know how. All you know is that you have to go to work in the morning. If you don't, you won't have enough money to provide for your family. You have all these activities you must accomplish throughout each and every day, because you've been told that you must live a busy life. Get your kids to school, take them to ball practice, and then games. Buy things. Buy lots of things that occupy your time. Things that distract you from what's going on in the world around you. Yes spend. Consume. That is your purpose.
You can feel it. When you go to work. When you go to church. When you pay your taxes. The world is not what it seems.
They say knowledge is power. This may be true in some instances. For me, it is a curse. It deprives me of human emotion. It forces me into a world of isolation. I know I'm not alone, yet I have never felt so lonely.
We all have felt the disturbance in the force. But we do not act on it. We have become complacent, content with going about our day pretending all is well. So long as we are still alive, that's all that matters.
More and more people are waking up to these harsh truths we face. But frustration sets in because we have developed a counterproductive way to expose these truths to the blind....by posting our frustrations on social media, sending our complaints out into a digital void where they are harvested, distorted, and then regurgitated back into the world as a false narrative.
We have exposed ourselves, given away our weaknesses. We have tipped our hands to the enemy, informing them of what fears they can play off of when they pump us full of their mind-controlling propaganda.
The balance of the force favors the dark side.
There has been an awakening. Can you feel it?
