Kafka was right and why people wish he was wrong: Guantanamo bay
Kafka’s vision has been discredited as psychotic and conspiracy seeking. A tale of a different society cough cough communism. Don’t get ahead of yourself McCarthy. The devil is in the details. Kafka’s version focuses more on mechanical directives than authoritarian commands. There is no reason, it just happens. There is no boogeyman trying to frame or a jealous ex out for revenge. Shit happens that is unexplainable. Though accordingly robotically. Some mistakes are made but the system must go on so mistakes are funneled out. Akin to the movie Snowpiercer. There must be a puppet master dangling the strings. A master ensuring the poverty of the ruts.
Snowpiercer acts as a conduit to Kafka’s “unreal stories” as so many commentators confessed. It’s just political humour. Kafka was not joking. His fiction was a lighthearted way of depicting a cold dark possibility. Many of Orwell’s critics slam him for his irrationality. Even the fictional absurdism is not impossible. Democratic equality is a pipe dream. People are so quick to shake off the uncomfortable truth with a quick laugh as their face drops for a moment only to shrug it off insistently. Like waking up from a bad dream. That was just a dream it didn’t mean anything. Yes it did. Unable to face fears people fail to confront the menacing foe. Yet allowing this foe to persist in his menacing permits more harm. If ignored maybe it will go away. It won’t. This is no pump up speech it is a consequentialist embrace. Don’t be naive. Life may traveling into the sunset only to crash into the setting sun.
Reasonably inquire whether the direction of events is amicable. Systems and social balance is a product of generational conformity. Human nature is a crux for undisputed anarchy. It is what high school biologists claim from personal experience. This applies to any model that is accepted by the people. Unnerved by exceptions and out of turn actions that are apologetically defended. Why is this the case because that is just the way it is. Living with such peaceful standards veil the disasters down the road. Foregoing repairing the cracks is due to cognitive bias. Incapable of conceding to obvious issues either denying or defending. No accountability and no answer to the riveting damage. Those able to make change do not. Happy to continue with the current regime. The model works most of the time so it shall stay. Subconsciously projecting that if a few get hurt that is part of the system’s imperfections.
Victims desire change. Those unaffected rarely see the harm. Potentially cringing at discomforting photos. Yet unless immediate action occurs those photos will be lost to oblivion. Problems far away reduce interest but problems close by promote defensiveness. how dare you say such bad things about my hometown. It is a sweet safe place. Blackballing those who charge negatively. It is those who are part of the system that struggle to break out of the concurrent norms. This is the way of life it must be correct. The onlooker skeptically questions norms' efficacy but the victims scream in agony. Slave owners took their role for granted while slaves cried for liberation. Abolitionists pondered and concluded that it was wrong but it took time. The onlooker investigates, the victim experiences and the perpetrator mimics. The spy gate scandal was quickly ignored. How could a government spy on you? They cannot. Isn’t that an invasion of privacy? Well if you have nothing to hide don’t worry. What??? Such dubious responses erode the principle. It is not whether I am not a goodie two shoes but the ability to invade whenever. I could be squeaky clean and still despise. Since this is illegal but it’s a democracy so it’s okay. Should a criminal not get due process because the town saw him commit the crime?
Whether good or evil, there are imperatives that must be heeded. A system is only considered when enough victims are protesting. March on Wall Street and Black Lives Matters amassed sufficient push to enact changes. Those changes have been reminiscent of victim and onlooker assistance. The drug war has persisted hurting communities but many citizens still look unfavorably on drugs. Even after medicinal qualities were hoisted still they have been criminalized. The communal consensus looks terribly on drugs more than alcohol and cigarettes. Alcoholics gain sympathy to recover but drug addicts are cast aside with less remorse. Alcohol is good while drugs are bad. Alcohol has a longer hold in society as a delicacy that was overwhelmingly accepted despite its danger. Drugs and cigarettes do not have that longevity and their hastening propaganda threw them aside spitting on addicts.
The victim is helpless without the onlooker’s aid. Onlookers who remain bystanders are indirect persecutors. Most of the issues are not directly caused by people but are promoted by complicit relation. Abolitionists and white civil rights activists ensured that the victim’s voice was heard. Victims sully in their weakness. The Jews did not have abolitionists. They had secret saviors. No one marched with the Jews in Berlin. The victim must stand for himself but he requires external aid. Assistance from the persecutor world. The privileged folk can’t comprehend the victim’s pain but they can attempt to alter change. Instead of accepting the horror as natural selection, there is a way out. If something smells fowl there is probably a skeleton rotting in the closet. If it looks like a duck it’s a duck. Don’t be fooled by an institutional promise that is just propaganda to continue their horrid actions.
Society acts as a machine. Loyalists will defend their ideal to the end. Kafka’s boogeyman is not the puppet master as he has passed. Geppetto died and Pinocchio is running the show unobserved. Robotic Pinocchio has one mission and it follows through. The machine has no feelings and free of autonomy acts linearly. A system unchanged and unattached leads to a runaway train. The train has a path but can only be halted by the driver. The driver’s negligence fosters danger and dismissal. The passengers do not know the driver fell asleep. Until the crash no one will realize the fault. Until the victim experiences the shift in norm. When the passenger becomes the victim of a runaway train or a hijacked plane. There is no reason to change attitude until the graving news is realized and internalized. The collective grouping and sympathetic onlooker will push for change as long as their credibility is safe. If the stakes are worthwhile. Unlike the German citizens who feared to protect. They weren’t Jews nor commies.
When the policy affects the individual victimizing him he complains. Yet if the problem is not obvious or impedes the collective’s lifestyle resistance will void change. The privileged folk don’t understand the victim and wish for no alteration. Life is fine stop kvetching. Especially in high standard countries where others are living worse off elsewhere is easily knocked as an attack on the beauty. Yet the privileged fail to understand the struggles of the poor. Well the poor should work harder yet do not understand that the environmental surroundings are poisonous. They are insidiously demoralizing the community. Since the outsider isn’t afflicted with the challenges they can hardly relate spinning vein ignorance of a dogmatic dream fed to an illusion.
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