The intellectual and moral revolution

The Babylon disease. Feeling that your entire being resents what is seen as the norm. And how the system works, to benefit the bigger fish and exploit the smaller.

What is seen as OK and good is appalling. The fact that to be normal is to eat unethical, unhealthy food, to care only for yourself, to sharpen your elbows and plough through the mass of people standing there to hopefully receive what is rightfully theirs. To turn your back to the exploited third world. To ignore how, almost prophetically true Lenin's thoughts about "imperialism" and "the highest state of capitalism" (even though I don't agree with his means to reach the goal). To forget the Heroes: Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and the anti-violent equality and rightfulness of all people that they stood for. How the norm is to be selfish, greedy and uncaring for "thy neighbour" in order to reward yourself on the cost of others.

How it is OK to exploit and pollute our foundation, the mother that gives birth to what gives us shelter, food in our bellies, water to quench our thirst. How it is OK to just trample on that and load up one's garbage on the plate that feeds you. It is okay as long as you can profit from it and hide it behind the product in a shiny package.

This is the norm, simply because this is what we are exposed to from when we wake up in the morning to when we go to sleep at night. We are constantly bombarded by this exploding vomit of commercial messages and information in the public forum that is all around us. What is even more twisted from my point of view is that this is completely OK...As long as you pay for it, "anything goes", pretty much, no matter how immoral it is. But if you don't have a permit and you create wonderful art which doesn't try to jump into your arms (via your wallet), or tempt you to spend money, it's a crime! Even worse so if it questions the current norms of society, appalling!



(Respect to the artist (Banksy) and photographer respectively, source: http://seizenine.blogspot.com/2007/03/banksy-en-londres.html )

Fortunately, the anonymous rebels of the dark nights radical art, the artists spreading the word, questioning rules, norms etc. Questioning the current view of (wo)man. Questioning the fact that it's OK to have a very low sense of moral, as long as you can cash in on the other end of it. How can that ever be OK? How can some fucked up, dehumanizing, immoral means be justified by a shiny packed new gadget that only a few percent of the world's inhabitants can afford to "consume"? Which also in the end, after it's life as a gadget that is, is turned into garbage and contributes to that vast mountain of polluting shit that is dumped on the same foundation that feeds us.

People like general knas, kapten röd, syster sol, cricket¸ svenska akademien, Promoe etc. keeps the hope up that maybe the next generation won't agree upon this immoral, polluting, exploiting chain of bullshit that just numbs us into indifferent, ever continuing jackoff-excuses of what is currently known as humanity.

Because, frankly, I just don't see the point of this society. There is nothing intellectually rewarding in consuming stuff to quench made-up needs, which in the end is just there to produce money for the jet set, who already have way too much for anyone's good.

What we need is a moral, anti-violent crossed-arms-revolution. What we need is a new Gandhi, as an avant-garde for all of us infected with the babylon disease and who are sick of this way of life from which one cannot escape. The only way is to change it into something better. It starts with you.