Dystopia is NOW.
Especially after COVID caused lockdowns all over the world, there have been widespread discussions among right-wingers that COVID is a giant conspiracy plotted by the elite to thrust humanity into a totalitarian dystopia; where you would be forced to do things that are not from your personal will, where your brains will be microchipped to control what you think and how you act, where there will be no freedom, where Orwell’s 1984 will become a reality and so many things.
I do not agree with them.
Not because they are wrong but because what they fear is already here. The Orwellian dystopia is not something that will happen at some point in the future, we are already in it and have been for a long time.
The dystopia started materializing the day we evolved to have the mind we possess today and since then, whatever that’s been happening has been the tightening of the bolts of the cage we have been in for a lonnnnng time. I stressed the timeframe because it isn’t 2 years or 20 years or 200 years ago, it’s way back than that; it goes as far back as the time when we talked in a language with each other for the first time.
The affection toward narrative without being aware of the mind is the foundation of the dystopia we are already in.
If you say that the push toward dystopia started in 2020 then you are also saying that until 2020, humanity had been living harmoniously. If you say that climate change is a conspiracy to make Orwellian dystopia a reality, then you are also saying that before climate change, humanity was at peace with no self-destructive tendencies. Everyone knows whether to take this seriously or not.
If Orwell was alive today, seeing the current plight of humanity, he would have said, “I told you so.” Again, it doesn’t mean that before Orwell’s 1984 humanity was going through the golden periods, it’s just that we were not as close to a total apocalypse as we are today, and yet we keep acting like we are alright, which also is a proof that we are locked in the psychological prisons because if we were as sane and wise as we like to present ourselves to be, we would have been acting like that.
I would rather watch the grass grow than listen to someone who thinks vaccine and mask mandates, lockdowns, the WEF’s “Great Reset” agenda, and ever-increasing online surveillance are a sign of mankind being rolled into a totalitarian dystopia. You can call them totalitarian or authoritarian or any other name that your worldview finds suitable, but they are in no way a preparation for a dystopian future because we already live in one. What those measures are doing is, at best, ensuring that we stay in the prison, they are just cementing the walls of the prison we are in.
If an animal is in a cage, and its master brought a new lock that is stronger and harder to break, the animal would only think of the new lock as a preparation for the cage as long as it’s unaware of the present cage he’s already in.
A dystopia would be a place where the elite class would be getting everything it wants, where the rank-and-file public would be exploited day in and day out, where our minds will be manipulated to consume the things we don’t need, where we’ll be resisting change and embracing tradition, where how we think-act-vote will be decided by sophisticated machines (like the media), where we’ll have moments of happiness and hours of sorrow, where we’ll be shown phony fantasies about future to force us into the gear turners of the industries of the ruling class, where we’ll be killing ourselves because that’s profitable, where our freedom would be similar to that of a bird that can only fly inside a cage, where we’ll fight against those who struggle to break the prison, where our very idea of who we are will be based on illogical conclusions.
Thank God, all of this is not happening right now, we still have the time to fight this dystopia that’s about to come, eh?
We all deeply know that there’s something wrong with the way we spend our lives. I am sure that there have been moments in your life where you said, “Is this what life is all about?” and that’s the voice from the deepest valleys of your heart telling you that you are in a psychological prison, but we tend to ignore it and speculate about dystopia being in the future.
Why?
Because we are creatures driven by ego, and we don’t like to accept that we have been living wrong all the time. Accepting that would mean being obliged to drastically change our priorities and the ways we organize ourselves, but as I said, the ego hates to accept that it’s wrong. Ego doesn’t want to admit that it has been deceived. Therefore, we keep speculating that dystopia is in the future, not in this moment as you are reading this.
Instead of saying, “Yes, dystopia is now. We have been in it for a long time. We have to change to get out of it,” we say, “Dystopia is in the future, not now.” We don’t want to accept that we are already in prison because then we have to get off our asses and work to break the prison. Talking about the future is the more convenient option.
What else can be worse than being somebody’s slave? When you don’t even know that you are a slave and who you are enslaved to. That’s our current situation.
Do you still think something can be worse? If yes, then you probably have no idea how complex and sophisticated our shackles are now.
For a cancer patient, nothing can be worse than Stage 4 of his disease and if he still tries to downplay it, it shouldn’t be difficult for you to guess how less he knows about his condition.
We are like that cancer patient.
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