enlightenment.

enlightenment

I have drawn a fairly pleasant conclusion about the world. Here goes.

A hundred years ago, a thousand years ago, was life better than now, or worse; has existence always been laden with conflict, war and tragedy? Yeah, bad shit has always been around. I barely need to dignify that with an explanation.

The main difference between then and now, is the TV, media, mass production, the internet, all that really new shit that's been brought into the world. Life must be completely fucking different now, it's just this very weird thing that's nothing like even fifty years ago. That's a tiny amount of time for such a big change! But the things happening haven't changed. Hate and shit like that persisted before the media, and though the media arguably breeds it, it didn't create it.

See, what's happening now with this crazy worldwide connection thing we've got going now, is that everything that once lived in the shadows is being dragged out. People see all this bad shit on the news, and it's like, "oh my god, what a terrible world!" But things haven't really changed, and now every person with a tv or computer is aware of all these problems. (maybe the white middle class is the main viewer of tv, but these are the people with the ability to actually help fix the world, as opposed to someone who can barely feed themself.) So the whole AIDS thing in Africa, had it not been for the media, people wouldn't know about it, and so no one would be trying to fix it.

Anyway, this is all a really roundabout way of saying that i think whatever 'golden age' or 'enlightenment' that all these prophet people have been talking about for thousands of years, well i think this is the dawning of it. i think all of us are living at a really fucking cool time, a time where we'll get to see a bunch of shit go down. i'm really glad i'm alive, right here at this moment, i'm really fucken grateful.