Classroom Space

By: Jonathan Seidel

News networks and teachers: trusting teachers too much? 

News networks are relevant lobbies of information. News brings newfound knowledge to the tuned listeners. The audience is limited in their knowledge of the outside world. The audience is the ignorant student unaware of the current events occurring throughout the world. News is a daily education of the surrounding happenings. People tune in to learn and gain a better understanding. Recently, news stations have received a bad reputation for their false reporting. They have abused their power, shifting from information forums to entertainment. News teams have lost their educational edge lending an ear to the primary professed educators. Teachers have an important role outside the limelight of televised content. A role that provides more than information. A role that shapes the future. 

Losing their credibility has greatly disturbed the public’s reception of information. Doing so sceptically with an eye for deception. A teacher has immense power to shape the student’s mind. A student is humbly dubious to the world. A teacher provides that necessary knowledge for them to grow. Yet, this knowledge is educated specifically. Every teacher has their method of teaching. Even for a subject as objectively universal as mathematics, the syllabus will differ from teacher to teacher. It is a combination of ability, comfortability and efficiency. A teacher must teach through his/her strengths. How they orient their courses are their own for their betterment and the student’s. In their autonomous coordination they supply the material. Varying math teachers will elucidate differing methods of solving a problem. Mathematics has not changed in millennia and yet the adult generation solves equations differently than the younger era. The teacher must understand the class’ capability and capacity to grasp the information. Teaching is not preaching. It is relaying information that can be easily internalised. Teaching requires learning. If the student does not comprehend then the teacher cannot be considered teaching, he/she is simply speaking.  

In day-to-day dialogue a teacher has taught a lesson if he/she held a class and conveyed the information. Teaching is synonymous with explaining but this is wrong. It is more similar to instructing. Reason being the relationship between the instructor and the instructed. Something is not really taught if it not learned. Teaching is conveying the information for the student to understand and respond in his understanding. Parenting is the same way. Barking orders at children is not the same as children following parental requests. The symbiotic relationship between the giver and the receiver is necessary as the relation is more than just knowledge. It influences the receiver. A teacher’s power in formulating his/her sessions can profoundly inspire students to live accordingly. A high school history teacher teaching the Cold War in the US will portray the same narrative as a Russian teacher but in their embellished way. A science teacher in his/her discussion of nuclear energy can argue for or against its use. Ideally, either one of these teachers could provide the entire narrative for students to decide but even so, teachers are only human. They are biased and will inevitably leak their perspectives even if not in their totality. 

Parents entrust their children to these teachers/institutions. The teachers have a grave responsibility to mould their adopted children on their parent’s behalf. Teaching ability requires internalising the lesson and relaying it conceptually for the student. The teacher has a special gift, the parent either does not have or does not have the time to spend. Either way, it is the teacher’s talent to relate to the student. They are in charge and are to be dually respected (with obvious reciprocation). The children have been put in their care as students. To learn and it is their job to fulfil that faculty of the child’s growth. Teachers watch their students grow as if their own children. With knowledge comes maturity and growth. It is no surprise students return to visit old teachers to pay their respects. The teacher is also overjoyed to see his/her previous students excelling afterward. There is a unique relationship between teacher and student that a parent may be lacking. Parents potty train, bike ride among other essentials. A teacher is designated to begin where the parent left off and raise them to their fullest potential. To provide the tools not gleaned at home.

A connection is struck between the educator and the educated. The teacher is accountable to the student and vice versa. Is not solely a job to fulfil but an experiential flow. The encounter is one that transcends the moment. While any exchange is an encounter in of itself. A consultant who advises a company on the next step is instructing the company how they should act. Providing them unknown knowledge. Consultants can in theory also be teachers. Yet what differentiates is the teacher’s job description. Ideal motivation is to grow the person in valued knowledge not profit. This is not merely a matter of semantics as there is a difference between the teacher-student and consultant-company. There is an internal frame that engulfs the spatial relevance of student reliance. The student perceives the teacher as a mentoring parental figure. The educational goal is not acquired knowledge itself but how that acquired knowledge manifests. Critical thinking in child development is the perennial outcome. More than the class syllabus is the lessons attained. Not recalling the paper nor the grade on Geometry exam but the valued ethic executed. As well as that relationship with a teacher. Submitting to an authority with less rebellious boldness. Scores of related drama. 

Relationships eclipse in the mutual commitment. Children do not play well with authority. Information is a tool of power lording over the youthful insolence. The genius refracted into emotive succession is carefully subdued in the student’s soul. The stubborn student may not adhere to the teacher’s tireless attempts or a tempered teacher’s incapacity to educate properly. There is no perfect paradigm. Yet the classroom is a moment of communion and relational development. Both gain from one another. The connection enables children to comfortably ask questions broadening the teacher’s mind. The equation may swap instantly momentarily for the teacher to become the temporal student. Enjoying the queries to hurl back responses in kind. The flow of communicative knowledge is freely woven in the classroom. Student’s may ignore but the rules of the session enable fluid information free to acquire. It is in the air ready to be grabbed. For the passionate teacher and the impassioned student a link can strengthen as they challenge one another. Participating and involvement desire more of the teacher’s self. Forcing more engaged exertion. A magnetic encounter marshals the experiential spirit between the two betrothed. 

Experiential connection and informational reliance building character puts the ball in the teacher’s court. Once she has the student’s attention he/she can play the game as he/she likes. It is his/her decision as the primary educator once the strings are attached in the guidance model. A teacher’s connection is fuelled by their personalisation. A revered mentor by students is a moment of clarity and decisiveness. Entering the frame as a relatable honest educator is necessary but it also binds students to the teacher’s whim. Th teacher possesses the student’s soul. The dependence is responsibility to be accounted or exploited. The personal attraction is burdened by an ideological laced message. The lesson is conveyed in the teacher’s frame. The frame game succinctly traps the student in the teacher’s making. His/her perspective will be bottled down the student’s throat. The student only attains what the teacher has provided. Isolated from parental supervision the more knowledgeable teacher preys on the student's open-minded ignorance. Protected by the institutional board, the teacher sways with little fear of repressions. The student's innocence is compiled with echo chamber messaging. His world is nested with monistic signalling. Graciously accepting the information has the totality of genuine administration. A hoax funnelled as verifiably stamped. 

Passionate attitudes are misdefined. The teacher is not intentionally deceiving the student. Yet is unaware of the student’s delicate nature. The ignorance and absent minded, will receive earnestly that which is supplied by a revered mentor. It is a misapplied use of skills. The political banter of the teacher is not disorderly outbursts but impassioned brazenness. A defence of the social troubles. The youth are the most easily manipulated to take up causes they know little about. A simple push for passion will bolster their support. Their monolithic monolingual outlooks narrowly embolden their narrative in their pursuit of justice. The young are empowered with a concern for empowerment. They are strong in need of focusing their intensity somewhere. Showing up for a worthy cause with lacklustre information only creates unrealised bullying. Students warped into their teacher’s fixations are visionary delusions passed on to immature novices. Noble attempts without a fuller picture due to an utmost trust in educational elucidated implementation. 

Innocents are to be trained to critically think over archiving information. It is not a bank vault of classified information to use as evidence against the perpetrator. Instead information supplied to then challenge. The student in his relationship with the teacher not submit like a pet but push back like a child. Challenge the mentor. Do not them overwhelm with their propaganda versions of the truth. It is never as simple as it seems. Education is not about accumulated information to spit back on paper. Much of contemporary education is of this metric. There needs to be a simple easy way to track success and knowledge. A way of crude classification. Teaching information for the student to spit back is a waste of potential. Most students forget the information right after the exam ends. Studying solely for the mark of coded memory. Ironically, mathematics does this well by teaching how to solve a solution. Teachers do not use the same problems from the textbook or class. Instead, they lend a new problem for the student to implement the equation learned to figure the answer. While the formula is spit back on the exam, the differing examples and show work premise attempt to add nuance. It is not perfect but it is a step away from the recollection tent.  History teachers must cease asking for dates and ask students what can be learned from this date. To use the information for more than memorisation. 

Zoom classes during covid forced teachers to seek new methods of testing students on their learning. Many shifted to papers with applied critical thinking tactics. Yet with covid coming to a close and returning to the classroom, many have reverted to the split back format. An undeniably lazy and dubious metric of excellence. Applied learning is the sole model of demonstrating to the teacher that their lecturing was warranted. Internalised information is wielded well in critical expertise. Not everyone is a good writer but it is the attempt to convey the received data in an analytical way. Student growth is not measured by gigabytes of compressed data but capable application. A successful teacher breeches the minute details of the lecture for more extensive radical discussion of the topic. Open and available to write and grade exams. To see how her education inspired her students. How they wrestle with the information instead of reading from notes. Veering tangentially for an all-encompassing sermon. Perpetuated development is applying values and skills to every discourse. Interacting with the world and executing properly. The information garnered rarely matters for the profession, it is the skill that is necessary.

Committed teachers concerned for the student’s success will put in the work to ensure excellence. It requires more on the her part to cease with meagre attempts and elevate the student. Student autonomy must respond to the frame. The teacher provides the angle and it is the student to shoot back with an inquired respond. The reply is a measure of respect. Receiving the information and responding straightforwardly. The relational axis acts as a barometer of student dependence as well as teacher engrossment. Passionate teaching must supersede textbook dictating. It is the exposure to vast plurality. To mass information. A group experiment of social relation and improvement. Student dedication furthers as long as their sentimental devotion. Laced lectures with something to be proud of. Sceptic attitudes impassioned to receive and reply. To enjoy the romance of learning.

Tech Myths

By: Jonathan Seidel

Icarus and technological abuse 

Technology has advanced tremendously in the past decades. Communication has exceeded any of its predecessors. Cellphones today eclipse the enhancement of the late twentieth century. Ever since the internet blossomed in the late 90s, it has only connected the global nation with its social platforms. The internet is a means of knowledge, attaining information with the click of a button. With this great technology has grave responsibility. It is not only the detrimental use on the dark web but the obsession with technology has a means of survival. People glued to their technology in order to get through the day. Unable to disconnect from their devices. 

The greek myth of Icarus best illustrates this problem. Icarus and his father Daedalus were imprisoned and to escape Daedalus invented wax wings. Yet he warned his son not to veer off course as the wax was not sturdy. Icarus so jolly in flying lost sight of the mission and began to fly freely away from his father and towards the sun. In this loss of purpose, he drew too close to the sun and his wax wings melted causing him to crash into the sea and drown. His father alternatively, landed safely on the nearest island to mourn his dead son. Daedalus focused on the mission and not the enjoyment of flying survived while his son did not meet the same fate. Icarus’s over-indulgence in his father’s invention was his downfall. Caught up in the moment of flying was detrimental fall to despair. He lost track where he was and drifted toward his end. 

The alarming irony is clear in our present societies. People are so caught up in their phones they do not look in front of them bumping into the person ahead. In more tragic examples, an individual texting and driving crashes into a pedestrian crossing the street. Too focused on their phones, they are not aware of the upcoming encounter. While technology is not the sole issue, as someone reading a book could cause the same damage but it is at times a driver using a map app like Waze that is the cause of the suffering. The slogans “do not text and drive” correlate to people feeling compelled to answer people swiftly. Someone texted, I need to answer. The phone buzzes and the driver feels an obligation to respond immediately. Innocently reaching for their phone while looking away from the road. Disconnecting from the road ahead is endangering but the communicate asset is necessary. While all sorts of distractions can occur on the road such as a wailing child, an incoming message is not one of those that requires validation. 

Travesties emerging from roadside indulgence are common enough for the public to forbid its use. Public endangerment is quite the necessity. It also fuels a distraction for humanity. A way of voiding obligations for entertainment. Technology fuels a void to use instead of facing responsibility. Need to study for a test but instead watching Netflix to pass the time. While technology can produce positive results in attaining information, its frequency for other than obligational use habituates a negative routine. It becomes a tool for unproductive usage and unmotivated potential. It has the possibility for good. Technology enables simpler directions and accessible study guides and most importantly communication. Yet its hedonistic prevalence shifts human mentality from a tool for construction to a toy for play. A measure of lost time and even more lost brain cells. Persistent trends down this path erodes any ability to transcend this virtual force for the real world. 

Technological neutrality provides man with an opportunity. To use for good or bad. Bad is not necessarily devilish plots to harm others. Secret communications to raise calamity. It is the surface World Wide Web danger that hides in plain site. It mummifies people into a zombie apocalypse. Glued to their cellphones like a patient to his ventilator. It is their medicine to the cancer of reality. The only way to overcome the struggles of reality is through cellphone inoculation. Having a bad day watch a romcom, need to get your rage out watch a comedic special. Entertainment is at a person’s fingertips. One click and they have whatever they need in an instant. Though limited to an extent, it is a personal robotic servant. It can educate inspire and develop the individual. It requires devotion and dedication but the committed can grow. This is truly incredible but it is the stooped in the enjoyment that leaks. Watching every youtube crash course video still is through the technical element. Even with the individual’s growth, his reliance on the technology to bring him this knowledge is problematic. The mechanism’s vitality is at stake. 

Terrifying dangers are virtual. They seem real even if fiction. Whether in cinema or the news. In the latter, news networks brought to your screen are relatable. It is not a story in text but a speaker from a text (news on a teleprompter). The audience perceives a person relaying information to them earnestly. The confidence in their claims and the body language in its execution feels reliable. A person is talking to the audience and the audience like in any encounter trusts the other. People are gullible especially at a disadvantage in knowledge. They are being taught that which they did not know before. Intuitively it makes sense to rely on the information. A newspaper is worded in a certain way. There is no individual, less confrontation and more opportunity to disagree. Alternatively, the news is seen as objective meaning it’s just information not propaganda. Journalism is acquired content not agenda pushing. The virtual though is remote feels much closer. It feels like they are talking to us. The inability to discern rationally the news as newspapers in audio format derails the sceptical attitude. The news teachers exploit the public through gossip hanging stories embellished in citizen trust.  

The former relating to cinematic fiction portrays plot lines that seem very real. While fiction is more real than real, it more idealistic than realistic. One of the most obstructive truths is movie romance. The “real world” does not operate in the same way. Films are orchestrated in the ideal course to fetishise. A method of hormonal regurgitation to maintain an audience's staring. People watch and monkey see monkey do. Yet actors are playing by the strings of the director’s thoughts and goals not the average Joe. While the audience may enjoy for the aspiring utopia, it is not a recipe for success in personal execution. The world is not as lovey-dovey as fairy tales are supposed to occur. They are bedtime stories for children. For children to stretch their imaginations and fall asleep in joyous satisfaction. Just as Santa is not real so too happy ever afters are also. Life is work and is very difficult. Those caught up in cinematic fantasies are doomed to the unnatural character of people. While Shakespeares’ tragedies weren’t necessarily that much more realistic, it is important that any theme in cinema though has profound value is not to be mimicked identically. It is to absorb and ponder for the self. 

The cinematic creation is hyperreal. A Disneyland of sorts. Unlike theatre, the technological use to reframe real life events and make humorous dialogue with natural events. Recent marvel movies have made allusions to real life events whether WWII for Captain America or the Afghanistan war in Iron Man. Though Spiderman may be the best example in Peter Parker’s bewilderment of superheroes in his childish aspirations. Even more so is the irony of cinema mocking the fiction of other storylines. Blending fiction with reality only fantasises the ideal more with real life events that take place in the present. The audience is aware that fantasy is foreign but synthesising fictional characters within a realistic dilemma with concurrent event muddles rationality. Visual becomes ever unavoidable. We see, we grasp and we internalise. Cinema has provided an escape with reality tv in the form of game shows and unscripted programs. Reality television is this dividing line. Reality shows are not realistic in the average Joe sense. It is an inauthentic portrayal of the audience whether for production or social reasons. Fabrication is not realised by the audience. Even if it is, it is placed with the rest of cinema as a textbook of information. Consuming enough information will believe that which is true. The rational faculty cannot discern that which is habituated to disagree with sufficient overload. 

Texting is the first step into the virtual expense. Prioritising messaging over speaking. The immediate response exceeds the emailing stage. It is no longer a notification but a filtered encounter. The confrontation is is apparent but not present. The encounter lacks the emotional experience and the directed intent. Words cannot facilitate the terminological tone necessary for dialogue. Even after growing up in this age, the struggle to decode bland language persists. Some people have rules. While usually the tone of voice denotes the proclivity magnitude, the text does not. My fiancé argued that “ok” is plain and upset while “okay” was more ecstatic. There is no universal order. Even if there is, it is not taught and is merely a sectarian oral framework. For now, each person has a separate decoding process. Some people use exclamation points to emphasise feelings and yet it is still insufficient. Emojis to the rescue. Now symbols are the measure of communication. An emoji combination is the modern hieroglyphics. In a sense we have regressed to pre-literary stages. We had also progressed by unifying literary and extralinguistic aspects. Words and gestures to communicate. 

The virtual shift in the meta-verse phenomenon has people purchasing virtual land. Virtual reality was for a while the highlight of escapism. A world different than our own. Limited by the software but unlike prior gaming systems it enables an individual to properly mobilise around the universe. Though a flawed reality, its pleasure in promoting a self sufficient altered reality is encouraged. Yet the augmented reality experience has begun to overtake the virtual. Augmented reality is the self sufficiently in the real world even if simultaneously through the virtual lens. The game Pokemon Go is a perfect example. A game virtually compiled through the real world. People would see virtual Pokemon sitting in their recently mowed lawn.  Immersed in the virtual via reality. There is a great deal of good like the target app that aids in digitally viewing an object in their home. Yet caution of expelling the tool for a lifestyle. Augmented reality is to aid with realistic life not to become its replacement. 

Trendy dystopias of the 60s pointed to the dangers of cyberpunk. Machines ruling the world. Scares in the acclaimed films of Terminator, The Matrix, I Robot and Blade Runner. Debating the puzzling possibility of Skynet and the eradication of humanity is not inevitable nor near. The new Blade Runner 2049 displays potential affinities to augmented reality. It was more a futuristic aspiration for augmented reality consumerism. Augmented reality has not overtaken our realistic perceptions. The dichotomy is still obvious but combatively it is regressing. For those born into full-blown augmented reality for desired consumerism, there will be little for the “real” to be recognised. The virtual will have become the objective. In a television show called Altered Carbon, the protagonist takes a pill and then is able to see the virtual in its real form. It is only in the conscious state that fiction can vitalise. The dark dirty alley becomes a Vegas strip of brothels and bars. Meshing the virtual for the real foregoes the actual for the fake. Once melded completely the farce is true. The struggle may be comforted but the real ignored. Civilisation may save the individual from the chaotic jungle but virtuality is not changing location, it's changing visual perception.    

Technology is a true gift to man. Man has deciphered its power and has morphed it into helpful assimilation. In this vein, we must caution our use. Technology is a tool not an end in of itself. We cannot become servants to our technology. While there may be no Skynet actively orchestrating humanity’s downfall, we will passively submit ourselves to the machines. We cannot sacrifice our individuality and existence for our technological comforts. We cannot become addicted to technical soma. Not measuring our complacency by indulgence in fingertip pleasure. It is a danger to ourselves not to confront the incoming evil and avoid our issues. Accountability in its ultimate phase to elevate our being as the top priority to the secondary machine aid. 

Cowboys Like Us

By: Jonathan Seidel

The Wild West as a romanticised individualism 

The Wild West is perceived as a time of expansion and individualism. A time of great new opportunity and autonomy. The realisation of absolute liberty was upon the people. While this is greatly exaggerated it presents an ideal of abandoning society for a fresh start. A hopeful manifestation of the isolated self. Yet in its fantastical articulation there is an aspiring vision to be the lone wolf. To be the sophisticated talented John Wick character. A modern cowboy taking the law into his own hands. The measure of such an individual is his utmost independence. It it that self promoting and individualism that is valuable. It is also the road to the ultimate existential self. 

Existentialism rose following the romantic era. It posited the individual’s being before belonging. One’s clean slate of existence on the same foundation as everyone else. The philosophical school sought answers to man’s inner demons. The subjective perspective of the world lay in the personal relation to the diabolical reality. A leap of faith into the darkness of the world. Weaned of the yoke of ancestral traditions, he was free to figure new solutions to age old issues. An inwardness harnessing self development and reflective thinking. In the modern narrative, man was alone in his world to churn out a new path. His existence was for him to sort out. A destiny overcoming the fate of the fatal gods. While there were different streams and avenues in existential thought following specific events namely WWII, it is reasonable to assume the trajectory only evolved in the later thinkers. Producing self generated meaning was a prose of the war-torn self amidst the graving despair of perpetuated death. 

Yet, in all this self made propositions the world never fully accepted such an autonomous individual. Media’s promotion unsuccessfully exaggerates a phenomenon to conceive of many lone wolves or a network of them. Such a group of masculine folk are miniscule. Strong willed, introverted and confident is a worthy mix of empowered lads with committed aspirations. Pioneers and transmitters in their own way. In a way that deviates from the norm. Those disillusioned with societal progress and seeking a new avenue. The Oregon trail was not all too primitive. Many were inspired by the manifest destiny ideology. It was a heteronomous concentration not an individualised motto. The Wild West was contrived as a lawless wonder. Someone needed to stand up. The cowboy is the unofficial dramatic hero to cease the corruption. He is a man alone who emerges to restore order. This was far from the truth. Texans may act in cowboy-is mannerisms with their lackadaisical firearm laws but such a commercialised folk hero was simply folklore. 

If the Wild West was not what it was mead out to be by Hollywood directors it more or less decried what it became. If only there were more solo rangers traversing the chaotic bountiful land in the midwest. Cinematic heroes are fictional projections. At times, what ifs and what we wished existed. The hero’s journey is filled through cinema as a carrying theme. Easily identifiable with the main character and rooting for his victory. The phrase fiction is more real than real though does denote a true historical reality in relation to cowboys, it may represent the inner feelings of many people. People who detest being placed in a box. Having options limited to what is surrounding their environment. A fantasy to roam the endless plains and fight for honour but wish to never hold a loaded weapon. It is an ideal archetype. One men want to be and women want to be be with. It is an aspiration to have the arrogance to dismiss societal values. Yet its ironic pause is its falsity. A cinematic lie for day dreamers. Society will never permit such lawless independence. It is not only the constitution that is to be heeded but so to the social order. The theoretical escape is marred by the practical conformity. 

Historical truth is humorous in that aspect. Altering the past for one’s own fantasy. A golden era of revisionist blasphemy. A dream for the elevated heart. The pinnacle of the ecstatic prayer. To break free of the shackles of society and still maintain dignity. Only a few succeed in overcoming society’s suppression. Living every man and women’s dream. Wealthy and happy. A society looking for an escape from the social order is at its pinnacle. With sufficient wealth, the popularity contest is irrelevant. Money talks and is seductive in its ability to boost one’s fortune tremendously. As long as wealth is pouring in, actions are inconsequential. The justice system is measured by monetary worth. Even a guilty convict with capable funds can evade punishment. A distorted system. Cinema paints a picture that anyone can be an outlaw but this causes its own damage as it requires immense conviction. Nothing as easy nor simple as the movies make it out to be. Bond or Jones though are aspiring archetypes run into a deep heap of trouble. Yes they have intense adventures, save the world and get the girl but it’s an arduous journey. Without proper preparation the voyage is a titanic. 

Living in uncivilised territory is possible but not recommended if necessary skills haven’t been acquired. A trained soldier may possess these skills and implement this program but this need not be the joy of the average individual’s fantasy. People wish to live comfortably. To fulfil the homeostasis quota. That requires living in an advanced civilised society. Even if films were Wild West proofed, those towns were wretched and the cowboy always had a target on his head. It was not a soothing life. Conforming to the technological evolution of society demands conformity in many aspects. Especially considering social life and practice. As long as one lives in a civilised community in the urban sector, he is bound to the communal front. Rural areas are the notable isolators but even then there is a local Walmart everyone attends. With technology, everyone is in everyone else’s world and there is no stopping it. We are constantly moving and passing through endless encounters. Restrictions may be self-imposed on the magnitude of external involvement but governed in its totality will unify. Civilisation has brought the world to our living rooms and we cannot help but internalise the gossip. 

Hasidim, monks and other ascetic mystics found their isolation away from society. In this regard they deterred from any engagement for their own. The exception to the rule. The impoverished who devoted themselves entirely to themselves. To their own self growth. They are the epitome of existentialist thought. Their countless hours meditating aligning their wills broadens their minds. They are so in touch with their bodies and their inner dimensions. Seeping into the spiritual side is the private sector of human existence. An area for the self to humble itself by internally focusing. A mode of self actualisation through introspection. For them this is not a morning routine but a lifestyle. They have eroded the burden of materialism by rejecting any of its benefit for ridding its dangerous harms. The plainness is the bedrock of human condition. At the basic of levels they are individuals focusing on themselves in the world. The ignorance to pleasure is extreme but it is to this degree to ensure the purest of independence. They also reach a degree of psychosis. Whereby, cut off from reality either they commit themselves to a craft in a box of their own or fed up with human idealism they wish to leave. A respected but also neglected fate. 

Anarchy is not the goal of every social pervert. Even those who wish to transcend the social order need to play the game in order to reach the apex of critical displeasure. The connective trajectory facilitates an upwards swing in ensuring autonomy by wealth escalation. The disparity endows a shadow of mere doubtful contusions. Man is only free once he attains sufficient funds to be financially independent. Once he has reached this peak he can act swiftly. Prior to that achievement there is a slow inability to isolate competently. Man’s unstable confrontational makeup pins him in the social conformity. Recognition motions a tainted respect for self acceptance. Self isolation leads to social alienation. A misrepresented individual is perceived as a cancer to society. A diseased foe distrusted for his difference. It is these disgruntled vermin society pins their blame and sympathies. It is only the backwater lowlife strangers who are wholly independent. They are ignored by society and yet simultaneously a part of society. The collective may loathe the mentally impaired but it is them who by virtue of external isolation embrace their true being. Discrimination empowers the disgraced in their concession to never concede. 

Disgraced adversaries are forced to look internally. They have no ally and thus rely on themselves for survival. It is a do or die moment. One that musters ever more strength than the persecutors. Resilience is unimaginable to the punisher. He is swinging his whip aimlessly laughing as the rope meets the naked spine yelping a scream in agony. The prisoner is biding his time for the moment to strike back. Screaming in pain, he holds himself in for the exact time to counter. This counterattack may be a passive silence refusing to yield, to give any information. It is the defensive conviction in the self. This hardens the individual and breaks the fantastical dream of an easy life. The struggling life is a token of comprehension. Those with troubling experience spend more time concentrating on their own purpose. If life is difficult why continue? The metaphysical queriers are endless as they spiral around the inquirer’s mind. Self confidence and deep conviction are the tools of overcoming such an obstacle ahead. It is only with one’s back against the wall, that external effort ceases its function. When the desired exterior is voided for an internal identification, more can be consumed. The self can be realised amongst its collectivist friends. 

Underprivileged folk are the epitome of existential centrality. Being precedes belonging. While most people belong to various sectors of society others do not. The disgraced do not. While the mentally ill are the general victims of this group. The orphan is another example. He is alone in the world. No heritage nor family to call his own. Orphanages and foster parents attempt to compensate but the relational phase is conditional. The same can be said of the mentally ill or immigrant. Both are conditionally accepted. The immigrant may have a legacy in his former country but entering this new phase brings with it a new life. One unknown to him. He does not speak the language nor understand the culture. He is totally alone in this world. Technology has aided the immigrant in overcoming some of these hurdles through translation apps as well as telephoning family abroad. Unlike the orphan, the immigrant may have a legacy elsewhere. He can return to the ways of old. In our elevated awareness of bioethics we have become more empathetic to the disadvantaged. Caretakers are provided for mentally ill. Yet, they are placed in institutions away from society. The orphanage is the same way. Even if the institutional protections are unconditional the societal relation is not. It is dependent on acceptable otherness. Left alone in a dark world, they are more aware of their existence and the meaning of life. 

Orphaned youth have the best effort to understand the suffering and look for a brighter future. The mentally ill do not possess the cognitive capacity of mainstream individuals. The orphan has an external problem not an internal one. The immigrant in a way is orphaned by his old country. In the past travelling to a new country was an arduous journey beginning fresh in an unknown society. Even now, the uncertainty is prevalent. The orphan suffers but can portray his allegiance to society. He can live in both worlds. As an orphan, he solely comprehends the struggle of losing parents. The woe and horror of a parentless life. On the other hand he is not confined to an institutional enclave forever. It is a temporary stage while he recuperates and grows old enough to care for himself. The orphanage cares so long as he is in need of parental aid. Once he matures he is to be out in the world. Yet even in adulthood he never forgets the toils of old. A struggling youth empowered him. He had time to introspect and grow. Time for himself not butchered by following others. Though the orphanage is not a single individual but a group of like-experiences. Even with a small society of the orphanage itself the relation to those who experienced to those who have not is vast. The world will look differently to he who has been sidelined and then autonomously enters than to he who was brought up in the thick of it. 

Theoretical speculation is the first step down this road. Cinema may inspire the American dream but it is only a dream. A forlorn possibility. A model praising the ideal fantasy. The brief moment of cinematic bliss influences the viewer until he returns to his normal life aching for recognition. The cinematic ideals represent not a directed path but a desired value. Incorporate just a little of the archetypical deity. Beseech its novelty in its monistic pathway. The Bond type is a soloist. A fantasy at large but a skilled warrior. An individual walking his own path with his own principles. Such is the mode of the postmodern individual. Decrying the meta-narrative of the American dream. The self made man. Such an individual in most cases is still subject to society. He has yet to eclipse the societal rules governing his grossing rates. His independence has to be near isolated to ensure his hyper-productivity and sustainability. In the theoretical plane he ponders such changes periodically. In another life, he could walk the line differently but that was not in the cards for him. He plays by the rules in order to establish his prestige. The few eclipse and still tailor their ideas. Yet a habituated theoretician is near an inevitable pragmatist. This scare may haunt him from ever considering the possibility. 

Initially self-isolated prioritises practical divergence due to a transparent indifference to societal norms. Embedded in his environmental codex is a disinterest. Sometimes even a callousness towards the societal order. A preacher of sorts boasting his ideological terror on the sweet citizenry. These defectors don’t loom in the shadows. They are out in the open, generally proud of their difference. Believing everyone else to be damned to the matrix. They have spent alone time pondering and have concluded with never before seen novelties. A revolutionary perception. They fear for the people’s delusions and wish to save them. For them it is less holding audiences and more living their way of life. A mode of doing whether than talking. Some believe it is their duty to educate the masses of this terrible cancer. A massive responsibility given the classical prophetic horrid experiences. The one-time insider is scene as delirious in his salvation attempt. He is not attempting to coerce the people but inspire them. A form of education diverting from conventional wisdom. Many ignore outright the possibility of wrongdoing. The dream cannot be a farce. So stooped in the system, the alternative is too embarrassing. Humble enough to recognise the faults of the past, the youthful spirit of the stranger can be accommodating even if uncomfortable. It requires a leap of faith. 

Radical individualism of the ecstatic cinema is mere fiction. A fiction that is on the forefront of every man’s aspirations. Nevertheless, one bottled in despair. Each individual must find the nuances to break free of the shackles weighing him down in disbelief. The world is a not a stage of brave new world. It is not a real-life factory farming sequence. Whether or not categorically every person lives similarly. Most people will study in school advance to employment begin a family and then care for them until death. Such a procedure is the cycle of human history. Yet the details of that path can be differentiated. Applying more time to travel or to ensure a passive income produce more opportunities to solidify a special life. This is not a YouTube guru but a call for reflection. Instead of getting caught up in the routine of dull life, shift the mentality to personal hobbies to exert that independence. Periodic moments are moments of temporary escape but revert back to the machine. A shifted mentality alters an ideological taint. A newfound outlook eclipsing the mechanistic simplicity for realistic sophistication. The cinematic ideal is a lonesome tragedy. Yet in pursuit of some synthesis, a reviewed analysis and introspective art are critical.

Citizens United

By: Jonathan Seidel

The modern world was intended to be an isolationist individualism. All would be in their own worlds in pursuit of the same goals. All beginning on the same playing field. While this is an inaccurate measure as sociopolitical templates differ by race and region, what did not occur was the proper isolation. Existentialism sought individualism but was overshadowed by a collectivist repression. Individualism was an initial goal but in hindsight a deceptive tactic. To elevate surfs to compatible dignified people who were turned against one another. The isolationism is intended to cultivate competitive lower value citizenry. The neo-aristocracy held tight their groupies adding in new affiliates into their circle. Yet the irony was its lack of individualised faculty. The individualised program was a ruse and divided the local groups from a collective rebellion. 

The lower groups have abandoned each other but not the idea of unification. Existentialism brought an undiagnosed individualism still harping on its group message. Without proper renunciation into the lonesome alienated, there is little room for salvation. Without absolute solitary existentialism is wrought with the wrong focus. The self is no longer properly animated on its own turf. It is imprecisely manifested in its tribalistic yearning. The self is still trying to fit in. Trying to be a part of a larger project. While this larger self is a beautiful ideal it is dejected in its minimalistic selfhood. There is low autonomy and rejected criteria. Society is fragmented and yet seeking community. A reminder of the longing for something existing in the towers of urban centrality. There is an interconnected web of elitist foundational sectionalism but little for rest of the order. It is a classist society but only one with cohesion. Modernity positioned the lower classes in direct competition to aggressively fight for a seat at the higher table. Work hard enough and that spot could be yours. Employers sit with other employers not with their employees. 

Communitarian obsession is baked into media formulation. The media in its sociopolitical jargon creates nationalistic order. It facilitates a following of membership. We are a unified citizenry. We are a group, a united front. Commercialised propaganda seeks to unify under one banner but this is only genuine in times of war. When patriotism is necessary people stand up. Hoping to defend their families and values. Yet war after war has lied to its citizenry. Patriots fight wounded die and are not compensated. Veterans return emotionally burdened from the perils of the battlefield with little governmental aid. Those who did not journey to protect seem to stand idly by as their brethren suffer. Stealing their land and putting their countrymen on the street. Poverty is a stricken business for the returnees. Even the wounded are treated poorly by the institutions built to aid them. The “unadulterated” nationalism is pinched in the flexibility of its cause. Nationalism only matters abroad not at home. The media pushes these nationalistic paradigms abroad to preserve democracy but absolves obscurity in its homeland. 

War-mongering is only a tool for wealthy defence contractors and investors to attain their materialistic goals, it is also has a political motivation. Salvaging the liberty woes of a destabilised country is a prideful instinct. Bringing the nation together on this issue sparks a nationalistic front. Yet the guise overlooks the struggling souls back home. It tarnishes the reputation of these groups by sadly misreporting on their detriment. The irony of this grave nationalism is that it only pertains on national soil for an instance. While it is clear in the mind of the public. When there is tragedy there must be condolence. There is mourning and then time moves on. Time leads to forgetfulness. News passes with each day. The tragedy will be remembered annually at times but that is the sole reminder of the event. It does not take into account the consequences of that event. Thinking nationalistically, we may take a moment of silence to recall the bravery but then we move on. It is the lack of unity. Unity is not some collectivist silence. It is not passivity. It is active attempts to combat the mistakes of the past. Gathering arm in arm listening to the blaring siren is the first step but it is insufficient. More must be done. Those affected must be compensated. A great example is the firefighters from 9/11. Every year the nation mourns the death of thousands of people who died that day but those courageous fire-fighters who entered the poisonous buildings have had their funding cut thrice causing severe health problems with no reconciliation. A nation that does not look after their own is an unpatriotic one. 

Recently certain efforts to combat racial violence have been at the forefront of the news. Marches and protests to advocate for better lives. While this a great start, there are dissenters. The media frames the us-them scenario as one good group and one bad group. A systematic issues that has not been resolved. On the one hand a dire unity but on the other a fragmented one. It generates readership to the national stories. Making headlines of the same villain. The adversary did not matter in quantity, the media made the group to be an insignificant bunch. The nation was against them. No one hand their side. How this numerically executed by both sides of the aisle with the same propaganda stories is genuinely humorous. They paint the nation as a force against the faction terrorists. These grand narratives skip the nuances and grope at the jarring headlines berating the public’s conscious. While many of these narratives are verifiable many are over generalised in a dangerous manner. Each issue is placed in the public’s mind as a national story worthy of excess. Drumming up emotions to feed off of exaggerations is a weapon of derailed  patriotism. Shunning opposing views in the pursuit of their clearest sharpest ideal. 

The citizenry is placed in a puzzle of national confabulation. Though this is merely speculative. Media may be a pathological liar. The political goals are immersed in the segments. Nothing is authenticated without some hiccup. An embellished narrative for political pleasure. Such an ancient style of communication is bewildering to the honest folk. Watching the media’s use of group terminology. Narrativising the greatest threat to society and preaching its disaster. Group unity is the sole method of survival. This is not something new. The media never really lets people be alone. Even those who move to undisturbed cabins in the deep woods are followed by news trucks to interview them. Those wishing to be unbothered are consequentially bothered for entertainment. It is then broadcasted on live television for all viewers to consume. With the internet and everyone trying to mingle in everyone else’s life, isolation is improbable. Worst of all it is turned into a brutal game. Peaceful loneliness is not on the media’s agenda. They want to remind people they are interconnected closer than people may have wished. Pages upon pages of celebrity information as if one’s own privacy is anyone else’s business. 

Governmental worship only bolsters these possibilities. The more governmental power, the more information they want from its citizens. Media now has that power. Tracing each’s likes and dislikes to produce an algorithm while still holding onto any history for “necessary purposes”. Privacy barely exists and it would not be shocking if the government had illegal cameras in greek trunks or telephone poles. We may all be in a collective Truman show. We must authenticate ourselves in many interactions. We are told it is for our safety. There may be a dangerous individual. The numbers do not back up the threat nor does the insurance analogy. There are some essential elements but much of it is an invasion of one’s own freedoms. We are group, a good people. Nothing to hide no problem. Ethics is irrelevant as long as the individual is upstanding. The lengths of spyware are an evil no matter how you slice it. Looking out for the nation is a ruse for a stable nation but the collectivist mind is reminded of the horrors. In its own reverse psychology, it should be unnecessary for a patriotic society. We have given up too many freedoms for a safety that is severely under-compensated. We are nation and that is the rule. Media rolls over these crucial questions. Bigger government is better whether federal or state. The libertarian is shunned for his cruelty and selfishness. Only governmental nationalism can save the populace. If some of its functions falter it will replace them “adequately”.

A heteronomous chain of brutality is imposed on the existential self. The inability to be truly free in a propaganda nationalism. Information consumption is communicated in pluralised recorders. The nation is addressed as a collective. People are seen within groups even if this mischaracterisation is simply no more than a caricature of society as a whole. The individual is misjudged for the collective stereotype. An ideology is part of a certain group even if its sectarian fringe extremists have a single questionable move. Generalised content is funnelled through nationalised plurality as an attack on a group. Dangerous groups are placed in the larger motif. There is no room for nuances. No measure of difference. It is all or nothing. A leftist is a triggered Karen screaming fascist at conservative students. A conservative is male white supremacist who has no legitimate opinion on anything. Typical formulations are not at all a majority of constituents but usually a smaller vocal group. The most attention is gained by the loudest voice. While this is an irrational method of evaluation, it is the media’s portrait which influences the masses of their beliefs. To a point where the polarisation divides amongst friendships. Disassociating from varying opinions. People are placed in a box without the possibility of autonomous redemption.  

Visual Clues

By: Jonathan Seidel

Ancient societies were built on oral foundations. The lack of written excess bolstered an oral society. Today much of our society is written. Yet oral remnants still remain. Our society is no longer nor ever written entirely. Even if society is legalised built on a constitutional bedrock, it does change the oral parameters persistent as the core and daily methodology.

Orality falls under the experiential motif split into two categories verbal and visual. For all human history orality has been the cultural centre of society. Orality is best described as verbal communication. Parables and hymns were the original resource of communication. Yet orality has always been at the centre of education. Despite textbooks filled with the history of information, we still have schools with teachers as well as online content. Education continues to be verbal even when there is apparent simpler ways of learning. Yet this is not about being stuck in the past. It is about teaching on a level. A book only provides the basic information. It provides formulas and definitions. It rarely leads tangentially out of context. A teacher amasses an array of knowledge that can be fluidly nurtured in the student. The student does not only read but asks questions from an elder perspective. From one who has read more than them. Someone who specialises in the field. The plain words in the textbook are not always clear to the student. The reader may require a deeper analysis that a teacher with the extensive vocabulary and interpersonal skills can produce. 

Humans talk everyday. We communicate with one another on the basic of oral trajectory. To attain info we discuss and converse. There is no book for dialogue. It is an event of fluid vocality. The intentionality of oral communication is its unsubstantiated unknown future. Discussions begin and where they lead is for time to tell. Yet they are informative. Whether the information is surface or deep, it is still knowledge received. Verbalism is methodical but also coincidental. We talk to others with a goal in mind but that which we desire is not achieved through the exact means we plan. Sometimes it is but once the words leave the lips all is possible. Orality has no rules. Standards or manners are relevant but no embedded rules. One can choose to respond or not. Fundamentally, orality is a mixture of an intent that has an undisclosed next step. The flow of consciousness becomes ever automatic in extensive conversation. It becomes intuitive to react by engaging the other. 

Verbal orality has been misused. Politics has corrupted media. It is a free for all who can brainwash the most people. Faces on a monitor exclaim such and such occurred and the horror of their inaccuracies has hit a new low. Lying news anchors, politicians, gurus. Whomever, it is an individual contest for self elevation. Who couldn’t have seen this coming. With people clinging for a community, people would manipulate others for their own gain. The technological word does not work in print no more. Even print can’t be trusted. History is written by the victor, politics is a sham. The matrix is real and we are in the thick of it. Everything is hardcore relative. They hypocritical disrespect is astonishing. An oral community transcends the written bounds to be united by word. Connected on a higher existential level. This is the greatest lost. To feel connected. To feel appreciated. Then to be stabbed in the back. To be lied to. To be fooled. Orality has bee weaponised to feed off the weaklings. Manipulating the public with oral messages when the anchor or president is reading off of a teleprompter. A way of overpowering those gullible enough to accept the nonsense soothing from their lips.

When the verbal faculty is misconstrued the visual one also becomes abandoned. Mimicking is a byproduct of visualisation of a verbal and non-verbal act. Some procedures are innate replicas. The classic monkey see, monkey do. No verbal exchange is necessary. Yet much of all else requires verbal communication. Especially when an imitation is a gross misappropriation. Tweaks need to be made to reconcile imprecise action. Perfect copies are negligent and communication fixes the adequacies. Verbal is directed to the visual. The senses are linked but does not mean a blind man will not perfect the motion but his personal knowledge is mitigated by absent sight. The experiential is oral. The blind man can also partake in the oral community. The deaf man as well. Though sign language is verbal communication even without vocality. Its use of words or gestures to subjects is verbal in nature. The oral community is embedded in a transitionary model of linkage. It speaks to the relative cultural reception of the event. Communication is not just floating words but received criteria. Internalised info is marked by its absorption of knowledge and response accuracy. 

If the verbal is untrustworthy then the visual is also distorted. Sight is hypnotised with propaganda content to sway public perception. The visual cannot be trusted as imagery is weaponised to clown the public. The oral community is communicative in its separate identity. It is polarising the masses into identical voices speaking past one another. Verbalism is a critical aspect of existential connection. Within the conversation an encounter is struck. The auditory must differentiate the truth sayers  and false deniers. In an oral makeup there is an experiential tie to the communal gathering. A trust between people. An oral society relies on its information gurus. Those with resources are they who have information to provide. This is personal knowledge to be shared with the public but they hide it. They hold it close to their chests. They spew jargon to gain mass hysteria in their product. For people to give them a higher purpose in the institutions. A magician never reveals their secrets. Follow me and I’ll teach them to you, they say. I will have your back among other fake prophecies.                 

Visual apprehension is discoloured by its empirical disinterest. Can we really trust what we see? This is no Cartesian miscalculation. While our eyes honestly can make out clear images, the media plays tricks on our delusions. We are presented with elusive fascination that mildly corresponds to the basis of realistic aura. The disrespectful imaginative news-bites cradled in swift segments propels the sheerest of propaganda. Reality is fractured into minuscule hyperbole. Promised aspirations shrouded in unimaginable arrogance. Speaking in sermonic hymns engulfing the mass hysteria. Clever one-liners arousing the cerebral cortex. Orality is today deceptive and mysterious. A medieval clerical defiance of hellish science. With little uptake for moral adherence, there is little holding anyone to companionship. Subtle alterations in the visual representation by coding the image with verbal abuse. Verbal assault is not violent offence but deceptive malice. A forger expense of scenic inquisition. 

Deviance is the enemy of cohesion. It builds a false reality. Pummelled into the nervous centre of scandalous attraction. The communicative identity is fallacious. It is not the whole truth but a slice. Truths are mixed with falsities. Much journalism is intentionally skewed ideologically, there is clear ignorance to the contrary. Ideological preservation is the highest priority. Anything that impedes on its stability will feel the wrath of the reactionary delay. Blinded by motives, the full truth is missed. Orality laced with prudent accessories seduces obscurity. Communication is muddled if ears are closed or if speech is deliberate. The goal is to produce followers not independent minds. To flourish in uniform potentiality. 

Webbed Tightly

 

By: Jonathan Seidel

Structuralism’s “oral” network 

The world of illusionary tales prefaced in the circle of reality bemoans the similar lines intersecting at gradual points of development. Human nature is the guise for the patterns emerging in the social representation. Commonalities spreading universally is semantic prose for educational monism. In a peer pressured ensuring everybody likes you mentality, there is little room for unique instincts to deviate from the realistic compulsion. There is a spider web threading through humanity corresponding to a uniform measure of linearity. 

The psychological link webbed into the sociological cocoon. The concurrents grouped in fantastical maturity import a synchronic symmetry. Thinking alike is a neurological mimicking. It is a pathological infection dotting copycat folklore. The underpinnings are cultural not natural. The dogmatic aspects spreading across timelines is a surface construction. A clouded delusion pawned off as a human instinct. Certain behaviours maybe instinctive but actionable offences is the leap that is baked into societal conformity. Televised content only deepens the socialised faculty in the depths of the mind. The blue pill nor the red pill seems to be a complementary solution. Both articulate materialistic desires. While an ascetic perspective may be forlorn and also interrogated for its cultural inspiration, its outcast immanently identifying with an internal perspective. The media propaganda informs materialistic sensibilities. 

The internal facet revolves around one’s own ontology. It supersedes the external desires. The gift of eyesight is unmelted with imagery. Photographs engraved in the mind linked to the seven deadly sins. The hedonistic mentality focused on individualised consumption and attainment stretches the aesthetic bounds. No definite link can be underscored but the hellenistic remnants of western philosophy manifest itself throughout privileged society. The grace of status in personal elevation is a social climbing mimicry. A trial of deep civilised notation. A quotation to the overall depth of political quandaries. A collectivist invasion pursuing seductive externalities for grandeur prestige. A commonplace across society. The underpinning strings are visibly laced with capitalist vile. Structural integrity is linked to the frequent media. Propaganda shoved in the audience’s face. Televised content coercing behaviour in its false prophecy for salvation is noticeably a trick to suppress a rebellion.  

The people are coupled into a group formula. A brave new world hinged on providing the antidote to the difficult reality of life. Instead of stuff it is endowing information to attain this stuff. It seems as if it is autonomous. It is just receiving a tip. Not given freely like a baby. Independent people reaching their goals of achieving materialistic lore. Socially constructed devices externally manifest their wiles onto man’s frontal lobe. The apparent satisfaction to soulful empowerment is harnessed erroneously. It is manipulated on billboards and televised content. The advertisement brainwashes coercive addictive behaviour to fall in line with the norm. Everyone else is doing it. The overlords are no cabal but a string of sorcerers. Their string progression in a quartet of polyphonic hymns. A verbal recitation of euphoric melancholy. The audience is compelled by the symphony’s voice. A breath of radiance summons the wrath of the rejects. The hypnosis carries weight clouding the consciousness of the mass adherents.     

The superstitious finality musters worrisome sublimity into the collective consciousness. An unnerved currency in the bastion of humility. The intentioned faculty does not register. Unaware of the Truman show phenomenon. Unaware of a directer framing the world. A deity of sorts yet more mortal and reckless than his fantasies relish. A product of his environment that is generationally linked to the jargon force-fed by its predecessors. Its corrupted ideological pose is a bingo book of interrelated concurrents. Born into a system that precedes personal birth. A religious mantra in its doctrinal structure. The blasphemous ignorance is to deviate from the set standard. Feeling intuitive is a misguided appropriation of engraved perceptions educationally supported before debate is tolerated. It is not axiomatic but a learned interest. Taught in the midst of our early youth places these truths in the recesses of our minds. Subjectively connived as the ultimate form of natural expression. A lie formed as a truth in the childish folklore spoken softly in lullabies. Guidance is stolen by the parental dependency in the smokescreen prodded on the innocent youth. 

The conscription of his beliefs is lauded as a ceremonial entrance into human life. Televised content pushes the advertisement pushing the certain agenda. Liberation depends on the consequential sequence. Freedom is the centre of absolution in the face of chaotic absurdity. He is doomed only if he stands idly by. Freedom for expression in its limited capacity. The frame game is nothing short of genius. An illusionary tale victorious in restricting the intelligent to think inside the 5x5 barbwire cell. A cell with a window to the outside. Able to see the pictures of pleasantries and fortune in the far out distance. Embroiled with a deep thirst for such hope. The outsiders provide information of the occurring events outside the cell but refuse to let us see it for ourselves. The outsiders look no different than the insiders but contest they have antibodies to the infectious externalities. The cure is possible for everyone but must be individually attained. A death race for salvation. Defeating cellmates one by one in an aggressive competition is the only way out of the cell. Follow their rules and reward will potentially come your way. 

The reliance on external knowledge over ones senses pivotally reallocates one’s own self esteem. Needing to live by someone else’ expectations. A slave to a master’s bidding. The liberation is only a cover for the autonomous servitude. Disassociation from the slave trade and citizenship as the key to individualism guises the slavish strings. Trust in the viewed content is an inescapable illusion. It is the world only known by the audience. The boxed-in-cell is not apparent to the the cellmates. They feel chained to a society that wishes to quash them, If they try hard enough they can overcome the pressure. They follow the orders, the formalised insights sampled in advertised sentiments. The insiders only see what the outsiders wish them to see. They make the cell and place everyone in it. The outsiders provide salvation as the platonic philosopher kings. In their prestige, they belittle the insiders with their superiority. They deal the regulations to drive an ideological split. 

The self-appointed bigoted neo-aristocracy adorns itself in its best outfits as it attends exclusive galas. They televise these events with proto-messaging to their causes. Marking as people’s persons. They talk down from their ivory towers in jargon intended to be relatable. Considerably their corporate attitudes only further the gap between them in the masses. Yet they try and try to incline toward the average Joe. Their synthesis of televised media in mother tongue with stories of old, fuel in their minds camaraderie. Cater our messaging and you can one day reach our level. They are beloved for believing in the masses. For their inspirational jargon. The televised entertainment brings their character forward not their true selves. Their advertised impersonations are fraudulent. Imposters playing a role that pierces the viewer’s heart. The lavish life is combined with a phoney replication. Off-screen there is little to distinguish other than heresy. They live in ivory towers but no matter which form of entertainment they are producing, it is a hoax. Their true nature is hidden from view. Usually ousted in scandals decades later. The self-immortalised are actors preying on the gullible. 

The individual alone in the world seeks social affiliation. The aristocratic community boasts of its selfhood, a posse just like everyone else but it is not. It is a group of an interconnected web of privileged foes. Those outside the frame are vying for entrance. To be part of the unique scenario. It is all cookie-cutter surface jargon to real in the masses. To keep them aspiring yet at arm’s length. By promoting a self sufficiency scheme, it hinges on personal effort and undying conviction. The will to never give up is enough to make it. These slogans bridge the impossibility with plausible attainment. Work hard and in time success will come you way. Luck is periodic but enough shots on net, something is bound to go in. A probability game for a champion. Practice and study well, excellence is only a few yards away. There is some truth to this. The ten thousand hour rule. Whether or not this a proven science, a great deal of time focused on one trade can elevate one’s abilities and polish their skills. Yet not everyone is invited into the pantheon of elites. Only those with suffice connections are invited. The exclusivity is a dire reality. 

The top brass are intent on keep their power while people maintain their composure. The hegemonic singularity is open but is selective. It commands a certain lifestyle. Wealth is tied with politics and ideology. There is no pure monetary value. Money only breeds the ability to access that which was once idolised as divine right. Accumulated wealth is a passage but it is only the first step. There are follow up interviews to enshrine in the paradise of the elitist kingdom. This monolithic perspective and kneeling is monarchial. Once inside the system, public appearances must follow a regimen to uphold the standard. Talking out of order will only lead to blackballing. Their voting will drop from the fives to the ones. Although they will still have their stuff, their resources will begin to dwindle and the public outrage will haunt them. To some extent this is a warning to the average person to stay away from elitist politics. Why get involved in a framework that betrays the core foundation of the ancestral mission. The multi-layered level closes off the world of the elites to the world of the citizen. Discouraging entry is tactical in providing hope and two-faced passion. 

The elite world is grouped but polarised. The wealthy are tied in a knot but on the face of it they argue against one another. At times, sincerely in opposition to certain standards. Elites are attacked for their bad behaviour. Their troubling actions are called into question. When a single elite breaks from formation he is targeted. How dare he not advocate or defend this position. The elitist community is conditional. It is paradise for the robotic acceptance. Those who believe in the majority cause will win. The people-pleasers will be victorious. The manipulative will be able to overcome their past issues. Skewing media to either suppress or overlook their scandalous cellar. Protection is afforded to those who cater to the promising future. The progressive avenue is the talk of the town but their ideas are repeatedly ignored by all elites. Even elites who preach these ideas are simply playing the game. Tricking the people into thinking they have their back and then stabbing the people when they come bless them. Politics is war but it supposed to be honourable. Even if not to one another at least to the people. The stubborn arrogance to lie into good fortune is devious and detrimental. It sets a bad precedent for society. The self-appointed moralists are hypocrites. 

The elites lie and the sooner the masses account for the blasphemy the better. It is not a grudge match but a honesty gig. They are selfish social climbers only in it for themselves. They continue to push innovative ideas that immediately are crushed due to lack of compromise or backbone. Blaming one another is low and unhelpful to the masses. Many people with influence continue to hypocritically claim one side of the coin and act the other. Advocates but only when it affects others. With all their prestige it all too shocking they lack any depth in the political machine. The people can vote and rely on their representatives. The elitist group can unite for the people’s best future but they do not. It is not one person’s or another. It is a national duty, a civic duty. Only looking out for oneself and save their job is the steady misuse of power. They resist the potential future in their greedy dominance. Why should they care for the rest of the citizenry? Why should they properly represent the people? Why should they be loyal?