Sometimes I Wonder If No One Else Considers...

... the tragic irony that Social Darwinism as a precept of human culture has only grown more and more ubiquitous since the Nazis made their move to conquer the world.

I wonder if those former party leaders who are still alive will die with smiles on their faces - knowing that while the military strategy may have failed, the social ramifications of their brainwashing continue to reverberate well into the future of a mostly oblivious civilization. Their cult's simultaneous courtship of the fundamental fear and arrogance in all human beings was successful... but not because of anything the Nazi party actually did; rather, it was successful by default - the Nazis simply gave it their name, and in doing so made the idea accessible through rhetoric and possessable via language-ownership. Humans already have a powerful tendency toward objectification of other human beings as a simple symptom of—and as a coping mechanism to deal with the cognitive dissonance inherent in—fear and self-ignorance. Nazi ideology was so popular not merely because of the charismatic and persuasive figurehead(s) at the forefront of the movement, but because the dogma was already so intrinsically familiar to everyone that open acknowledgement of it was a very small step to make, especially considering the typical psychological environment created by widespread human overpopulation.

If anything, the profound irrational idiocy of Social Darwinism has grown even stronger and has become more fundamental to the status quo over the years, subtly insinuating itself into the foundations of the societies we now occupy. The fact that so few people have any awareness at all of its pervasive influence is a significant component of its present power as well as the primary vehicle of its perpetuation. Ignorance even as an incidental religion—as with all other religion based on belief—requires only itself to fulfill all prophecies - and turning a blind eye toward something that clearly exists is its most sacred form of worship.

What are Cover Girl, Chippendales, Victoria's Secret, etc., but false, unnatural, contrived symbols of an arbitrary "ideal" to which the materially-richest and most socially-powerful would have the rest of us subscribe? These—and the plenitude of other ideas like them—are epitomes of meaningless goals sold to the discontent masses under the pretense of possibility and "betterment" - keeping the population perpetually chasing a carrot that does not exist, all so they will continue to produce and consume and produce and consume and keep that precious money flowing upstream. Everyone knows this on some level; no person is truly that ignorant beneath the consciousness. These lies are powerfully marketed as both practical and essential, and for some god-damned reason people seem content to believe them... instead of taking just offense and, ideally, taking up arms in all senses of the term. Why? The answer is everywhere - hiding in utterly plain sight.

Our societies are built on game theories. Our cities are merely casinos in which we are constantly gambling away our lives for a chance at someone else's mass-marketed generic lie titled "happiness." Inside them, we go so far as to build discrete "casinos" to help sell the illusion of distinction from our everyday lives - peddling a secondary version of willful ignorance, for those times when we almost accidentally break through the primary delusion. There are layers upon layers of such lies that we pay for with days and months and decades in blind devotion to careers and consumer roles, and we aren't even fed them by force! Rather, we seek them out and buy them with our youth and innocence and curiosity and passion and honesty, and by the time we run out of parts of ourselves to give away, we're so addicted already that we'll shamelessly resort to begging just for mere scraps of a lie. Our forebears were addicts, and our current generation is simply the next in a series of addicts by birth; our drug of choice is allowing our choices to be made for us so we don't have to feel or experience. The certain—but measurable and constant—sacrifice of our most intrinsic freedoms is evidently preferable to the unknown—and thus frightening—possibility of loss in the face of honest risk.

This "human race" in its current form is just a joke without a punchline. Most of us are so far removed from our natural environments and our natural behaviors and our natural sentient-equilibrium that we're only very-technically alive... and that only in a solely-biological sense.


We have devolved into a species of profound cowards, so self-absorbed that simply staying the same is celebrated as the pinnacle of human achievement. Pitiful. Disgraceful. Even those of us who are aware of the bars lose more of ourselves with every day we remain caged. Do you know who holds the key to the prison your mind lives in?

Originally deployed to actively enslave the minds of the people, the current iteration of the "Nazi" regime—media, politics, consumer marketing of lifestyles alongside physical aesthetics, sexuality and contrived happiness—no longer even needs to make that minimal effort. "We, the people" enslaved ourselves long ago - first to fear, then to that which distracts from it, and then to the successive generations of increasingly-complex lies which obscure the very notion of "denial."

Here we are now: happy slaves... and working harder for our masters than ever before - all still without even the faintest crumb of meaningful compensation. Ask yourself why. Ask your neighbor why. Then, for once, don't deflect the question - and don't allow anyone else to, either. Our slavery won't end itself. You are your own one and only underground railroad to freedom; choose. Choose!

As long as the ads keep rolling, and people keep watching, and buying, and believing, and practically begging to shape their bodies and attitudes into free publicity for the corporations who own their minds... freedom is a moot point - so far removed from relevance that even calling it ironic would qualify as optimism. Participation and by-standing alike are allowing our progeny to be enslaved. How can anyone let this happen any longer? How can anyone pretend to believe that this way of pretending to live is actually anything but voluntary slavery? Where is the fight? Have you ever heard another human being use the word "dissent" in normal conversations about social ideology? I fear, often, that more than just the word itself may have been lost to time and apathy and canned-vernacular.

Some major and fundamental aspect of every person would proactively give anything for the cause of freedom - so, since you're living the American Dream instead of being free, I have to ask: what did it take to buy-off that part of your soul? Electric heat? Television? Cellphones? Laws, perhaps; trading accountability for and to yourself for arbitrary accountability to someone else's materialism and greed? Ask yourself what you could live without, if you had to. If you allow yourself to stop being afraid of the masters taking your "treats" and luxuries away, something will happen to your perception: a shift toward reality that will stir the animal in you—that intrinsic component of every human's being that will stop at nothing to defend the cause of real, genuine freedom—to tear the throat out of the lie we live in - or else die in so doing.

Society is far further 'gone' than even the prevailing cynics realize. I wonder often if mother universe has already closed its doors and locked up its remaining secrets from us forever - having realized that most of its human children have been gone so long that they are likely to never return home to the quest for true betterment. I'm honestly not sure which scenario I'd prefer, but at least there can be squeezed some small solace from the facts that I am still asking myself that question - and that I won't stop pursuing its answer.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world keeps on turning of its own oblivious accord - impossible for any one person to stop alone.