Crazy O'Neil pt. 1
Do you know who I am? DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? Oh ladi-da, you know my name. It's O'Neil. Doesn't change a thing. How can you know a person by just knowing their name? I guess that's the one thing Franco and I share in common. He says he doesn't belong here but everyone can see that he's just like us. We're easy to point out. You don't need to personally know somebody to tell that they're a loon. Oh no. It's quite easy. It's all in how a person looks at you. If he looks at you in a wrong or uneasy way, you can just tell. It's in their eyes. I guess when people aren't “normal” they're often labelled by others in a seemingly superior position to pass judgment. But what is “normal”? We as people change and we keep changing what “normal” is along with it. How do keep up with it?
Okay. In today's world, capitalism is just a way of life. We work, we get paid wages, we consume, we multiply, and we die. In our modern world this is reality. Our indirect purpose in life is to serve the system and oil the machine whether we want to or not. It takes a brave person to step outside those boundaries. And this everyday life of consuming is “normal” within our capitalist society. Can you even try to imagine a world without capitalism in the modern world? What's the next, advanced, superior system? Can we really see beyond our own time? Can we step ahead and take a peek at what lies ahead of us? Try as we may we will fail to predict the future but we can surely influence it.
So what can we do to change the future? There's nothing to change because it is not yet written. We're making it up as we go along. We could start by picking up a pen and swaying the masses. All we need is an idea. But it takes a bored individual with lots of time on his hands to change the world. Someone to cook up a plausible plot and isn't afraid to step up to the plate. We even need those individuals to fail and have critics with brighter ideas.
And the critic's critic's critic's critics (etc…) will pave the road to a better future. It could be a bright road or a rocky road but it would be a road nonetheless. The last thing we need is a standstill, a stasis in culture and society. How would we begin to know the past, present, and future in that case? What would we know that would be true? Is anything true?
Ah, this is tearing up my brains. Too much thinking makes me uneasy. It's too bad that this is what our world may be coming to. Can machines ever attain perfection? Will their hunger for faster models ever decrease? Even if a machine were to be a self-contained infinite machine, its functions and properties are not necessarily perfect. Or are they? An immortal being, man or man-made, can never be perfect because of the moral problems that perplex us to this day. Solve these issues and don't you have a perfect world? We are driven by desire and it is what influences us to make adverse decisions in life. We need to eliminate desire and the first place to start is to boycott capitalism, desire's fuel.
I bet you're wondering why I'm here. Well, I'm not considered to be “normal”.