2004-03-15

Welcome to the machine

Look around you. Everything that you see, the buildings, the streets, the signs,the cars, even the cut-down trees - is made by men. The junk on the ground,which feeds the pigeons and the dogs, the smell in the air, which makes you sick or makes others happy, all of this stuff far into the smallest detail is made by us, by humans. But then imagine one of us - any one of the six point four billion people - to be put on a deserted island, would he survive ? or then - put any ten people on a deserted island, different kinds, different genders - would they be able to continue with the same progress ? they would be forced to degrade totally, and it is impossible to tell how many generations (if they survived at all, which i doubt) would it take for them to build a somewhat civilized world (let's imagine for a second that our current world is 'civilized'). So this brings us to the conclusion that we all are a system, which cannot be taken apart without care. We all work together, we have built this world, no matter ho we are, criminals, rapists, doctors or priests. This world is like this because of all of us, together. We are The Machine.