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Omnia Discordia
You think you just woke up here one day,
right? Think again. It was your whole life
that brought you to this. Fact is, you were
born to be here. Go ahead, look around. I’ll
be here when you get back.
Looks smaller than it is, don’t it? Sometimes,
it doesn’t even feel all that bad. But still…
You look through those bars, and you see all
that you’re missing. Hopes. Dreams. What
could-have-been. Here, put your palms up
to the Black Iron, grab the bars, let me show
you something.
Feel that? That’s all the books you’ve read.
And that entire wall over there is your
adolescence. Look up: It’s your CD
collection. The floor you woke up on? Your
parents. Like I said, you were born to be here. It’s your life, it’s the cold trap of
your own existence. You painted yourself into a corner.
So, now you’re wondering why you feel trapped here, in your own life. Why now,
why today, can you see the bars of a Black Iron Prison that you made for yourself?
Because you stopped reacting and took a couple of steps forward. You thought
you could do what you wanted, you tried to be self-reliant, and bang. You smacked
your head against the wall.
What’s that? Yeah. That’s when the claustrophobia sets in. When you didn’t know
you were trapped, everything was fine. But now that you know, you can see your
entire, tired, monotonous life stretch out before you, trapped in these 4 walls,
these 6 sides. Breathe, kid. It’s just abject panic that you’re feeling right now.
Some even say that this is what death feels like: An unchanging life, immune and
unfeeling to what you really want.
Look around you. Look at these cold, black bars. The colorless ceiling. The hard
ground. That’s your universe. That’s the world you’re going to be living in for the
rest of your life here in Prison. You’re going to live out your life in quiet desperation. Or, not so quiet if you decide to take the rifle/bell tower route. Either
way, long or short, it’ll feel the same. Dead, unchanging.
So, if you’re interested, I’d like to invite you to a jailbreak…
Just turn around.
So I was on the move again. I had a few days of traveling to do, a friend had just got
back from Hong Kong as was going to be in London for a few days before jetting off
again. Jammy git.
As there was nothing else to do while on the train, I turned on the radio and decided to listen to a talk show. On this particular program, they had two opposing politicians in, debating the then-upcoming election.
I listened for a while, wishing I could get a decent music station, or had bought some CDs
with me. The debate was getting boring, and was essentially becoming a right/left conflict:
Give up your social freedom for more economic freedom, or give up your economic
freedom for your social ones.
Damn, that was stupid! I found myself thinking. So basically, I have to give up some sort of
freedom, in order to gain another? Looking closely, there wasn’t even that much of a
choice. To take benefit of the “economic free market” of the Right means you have to
have the money in the first place. And on the Left, without economic freedom, social
freedom was nothing, as money is a large part of the social structure.
So was there really a choice? To be sure, there are some differences. Certainly among the
personalities involved. But the basic philosophy was the same. Almost all our current
politicians come from the “Oxbridge elite”, those lucky few without enough connections or
cash to get into those 2 universities. This is pretty much the same for the leadership of
both parties, whether right or left-wing. And either way, it basically benefits them, as they
are richer than their constituents who they supposedly represent.
It’s a two-man con. Or rather, a two-ideology con. They say (this “they” presumably being
the same “they” who are the everyone in “everyone knows”. And quite possibly make up
“the community”, whoever the hell they are) that you can’t con an honest man, often to make themselves feel superior to some poor schmuck who just lost a lot on what seemed
a fair gamble.
However, you can con an honest man,
if you do it with two men. Make them
look like opposing teams, like a “thief”
getting caught at a jeweler's and a
“copper” taking the stolen goods as
evidence. But in reality, they are both
working ultimately for their own
benefit. That’s the way politicians keep
conning the public. We get the same
old guard year after year, being moved
by their party from safe seat to
safe seat. That’s modern politics.
Keep voting yourself pay raises and
make sure there aren’t equal taxes
applied to the rich.
And people wonder
why fringe parties and apathy
are on the rise…
Source (excerpted from):
https://www.principiadiscordia.com/downloads/Black_Iron_Prison_July2007.pdf
and believed to be in the public domain
or, at the least, copyleft
The Black Iron Prison, 2007
Edited for content, context, spelling, grammar, and/or punctuation,
and to be read in the time allotted.
Posted this Sweetmorn, the 60th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3190