Bangkok, 17 September 2009.
This morning we got up late, 10 and a half, and before going to work I had to get off to drink a cappuccino.
While drinking, sitting outside, passing herds of boys and girls leaving school early (it seems to be a day of celebration).
They were all in uniform, divided into small groups and seemed happy, as it always seem to adolescents, even in this age are often difficult disoriented.
In addition to the hormonal upheaval, when he saw her body changing, to try to understand if you are beautiful or ugly, etc. .. is an age where you are desperately seeking acceptance by the group.
Not want to be different, you want to be equal, and therefore reduces the most visible aspects of your personality and you adjust to the lowest common denominator.
I guess part of a healthy process of growth, to feel part of a group, for which, so far, nothing bad.
As I thought idly, caffeine enters the stomach, began slowly to rise to the brain and when he reached in the mass and acceleration started thinking, who gave me a different perspective for a moment.
I saw these children as helpless victims of the perfect Matrix.
The "Matrix" is a term now obsolete (the film of 1999), but more appropriate than "the Company", which 60 years ago too, Woodstock and future tributaries leftists shouting revolutionary slogans before being reabsorbed by the companies themselves and become integral and conservative.
The term "Matrix" is more suitable, because it expresses well the feeling of moving freely, but to do so within clear limits, untouchable and invisible.
So, I see these kids in white uniforms and blue, fully receptive to any statement of compliance.
Just emerged from childhood where "this is not done" and "this is not good," begin to be empowered in a way more sophisticated. They are said that should decide on their lives and indicates a road: you have to study, prepare for a profession, then work five days a week from 9 to 5, put aside some money, buy a house, and teach their children riprodurvi what you have learned you, so that you can substitute when you will not be here anymore.
They are told they are free to decide, but within certain limits.
This is particularly evident in Thailand (and Asia in general), where conformity reaches levels frustrating, but it is a bit all over the world.
In no country in the society encourages individualism, because it would be as if a general operating system just exceptions, without being able then to manage them.
Any exception, every person with a different idea, is a latent danger for a system.
We know however that it grows and is strengthened through people just outside the box, the revolutionary ideas and actions make sense.
Without that, the system slowly dies.
Proof is the financial and technological superiority of the less authoritarian, especially the Western world.
The collapse of the Soviet Union has been largely due to the fact that the system nipped in the bud free thinking and individual initiative.
So the system itself is regenerated and strengthened thanks to what he fears: the exception.
(The same goes for the enrichment of the genetic heritage of a species ... see "In praise of imperfection" of Montalcini)
We are thus faced with two categories of people (I borrow a definition of Manu):
- The People System
- The System Not People
E ', like all generalizations, imprecise, because obviously there are people who fluctuate between two extremes, but manages to highlight how each individual can be defined by the degree of conformity to the system.
I myself do not consider myself a pure System Not People, because I am one in many ways, I have rejected the system, not live (yet) in a tent in a hostel in George Town (readers of the Monkey will understand me) and I limit myself like a hyena plinskins, to bite the corpse of the victims, when the lion looks the other way.
Now, the Matrix does his duty, so it can not be blamed too much: it is a living organism that has as its primary storage, which is organized accordingly.
And, as mentioned, the Matrix better tolerate individuality, because they are strengthened.
They are however Matrix: highly sophisticated systems that can not be seen from the inside, who can cancel any perception of their existence to the individuals who belong to them.
When he had finished his cappuccino and started collecting the little foam left on the sides of the bowl, I thought my draft Business Online and I wondered: would you like to see this thing started as a simple business idea, becomes a kind mission to Che Guevara?
A struggle for the freedom of other people?
Today, in 2009, to the point of going into the jungle with a group of revolutionaries and try to fight the government?
And 'the government that makes us free today?
No, we are ourselves. And 'our adaptation to the rules and not see a way out of a do-a-job-that-not-like-you-buy-things-that-you-are-not-especially-and-not - ti-stop-a-thinking.
The government makes you do what you want. You'll go tomorrow if you want, you have euros, not rubles, a passport issued it to you when you want and how he demonstrated the Monkey (again), with 2500 euros can be around 10 months and visiting 13 countries, so those are all excuses which are to stay at home: it was pure fear, instilled daily under your skin in 20, 30 years of the Matrix.
Do not you make a fault, but at least just got consciousness.
Obviously will never be a will, I want it to be (I am not about good mustache), and will continue to fight only for myself, surrounded by chronic selfishness which is the very basis of capitalism.
But if you like, a side effect, I will point out the way and perhaps open a door to some people who have then realized a dream will still be a satisfaction and I will probably find the taste of being an outsider.
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September 17th, 2009 at 07:53
You've opened a road to me, slowly I am going there, maybe one day you will reach the meantime good journey to you!
September 17th, 2009 at 09:02
Hello Luca compliments ... nice post .... Do you dream of ...
but you think that in countries like those where you are now as in a game they had the keys to the locked door ...
and I was stuck in a dimension Kyrby Italian "as defined by the monkey. ... What you'd invented?
See you there in a similar situation ... I'll have you ever wondered?
hello Thurs. ... along with that of 2006 Bit Cujo!
September 17th, 2009 at 11:05
Hello Luke
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I read your last post and I must say you've got full, it's time you become aware of what they are and who you have become for a lot of people: Neo the Matrix, which (here my heart swells ) or, as I see it, Cristoforo Colombo (and not laugh
And 'so!
Surely other people in the past have made life choices that you did, but without sharing their ideas and experiences on the net ...
What one decides to fully embrace your philosophy, leaving work and starting out, or remain in the Matrix because of its tentacles bound by the responsibility, in my opinion a marginal, and concerns only the budget of the path of individual life.
What really matters is the awareness of their status, ie to give the correct location and value to situations that revolve around you.
Not to eat the soul from the system.
I am certain I had already guessed dynamics, Matrix is many things but basically it is a thief of minutes, minutes and hours of my life.
I steals the Matrix Time!
Was just a hunch away, then one day I ran into your site and ... Shit! Someone who speaks the same dialect opened my handcuffs, climbed over a caravel and set off into the unknown!
)
He put it in the ass to everyone (indeed, if it is removed
My head was opened like a watermelon ...
People like you are really rare, should make you life senator of the Free Republic of the good life.
Thanks Luca! [
September 17th, 2009 at 14:40
A famous scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on a topic of astronomy. He spoke of how the Earth orbits the sun and like the Sun, in turn, perform a wide revolution around the center of a huge pool of well-known stars like our own galaxy. After the conference, a little old lady down the hall stood up and said: "What you told us they are all lies. The world, in fact, is a flat disc that rests on the back of a giant turtle. " The scientist gave a superior smile before replying: "It rests on what the tortoise?". "She is very clever, young man, really," said the old lady. "But every turtle rests on another turtle."
September 17th, 2009 at 16:00
the "who" maybe not, definitely Boludo
September 18th, 2009 at 00:23
I will follow you for a while 'and every time your articles make me think a lot ... thanks for these pills! In January I go to Malaysia in April and I have a ticket to Bali .. if you're still that way maybe we can get ..
September 18th, 2009 at 07:48
But stop bothering with the Thai children's story of the Matrix! Once we gave the candy, now I also pulls half Che Guevara? but shame!
September 19th, 2009 at 06:32
@ Andrew: you six ahead!
@ jo: I'm lost. Should I find the post of the Monkey. Handed it to me?
@ Alberto: I disagree. Knowing that in one place and leave it differs from the stay. And the psychological pressure is too strong. ... We must get out physically.
@ Nad: have not slept for two days trying to understand
@ James: I'm glad!
@ Monkey: silent, not even able to book a hostel in KL.
September 19th, 2009 at 13:56
"Ignorance is a good thing," said the villain of the matrix when betraying the others who have managed to get out of the Matrix and the machines help to find them in exchange for the opportunity to go back inside the Matrix and return to live in without the knowledge that exists. He was referring to the fact that if you're inside a system, not feel, can not imagine that there is, you're well within that system. The problem is when you discover that there's another when you start to find the boundaries of the invisible barrier, then beginning to be impatient to want something different out of the matrix that has rocked you for life. Why do you come from out of the system when you "discover" that exists? No, it is because the outside world is more beautiful than it is for curiosity or pride (not to be one who submits to a system, not one that is commanded by the matrix, for the pride of being a free individual and independent) nothing more. The truth is that both the "worlds" have their downside and positive, and they probably lived in ignorance of its existence the world inside the Matrix is far more beautiful than the one lived outside the knowledge of what is inside.
Freedom is not objective, is subjective, if you feel free you are free if you live the company that you call matrix in the right way you can be happy and free without going in search of something different. Moral of the story alive and all.
September 20th, 2009 at 17:21
The image of the Matrix to me makes it even for a 'further reason, when the leader describes what Neo Neo test: what's back? If being alone system and its antibodies makes you think they are fantasies, that the road is the "good guy" who work, raise a family etc.. Now serving the community like this, feeling that one is taken in full and that you are not alone. How does this work? Watch this video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2138416794381091301 #
September 23rd, 2009 at 21:02
Hello, I'm dancing has guessed right in there ... I'm a lot of problems if they ever made, I thought the routine was part of the life of each individual and if you want to build a stable future is a must, the my friends, my family, people close to me live under this light and then I thought it was "normal" and you can not do anything.
Then browsing the internet I read your stories: Tripluca, Jonathan, Daninviaggio, annosabbatico, giroviaggiando, ect ect ...
I will open a world, my head is in utter confusion and I wonder if my way of life is right, I'm not so sure ...
What purpose has life if you do not follow your dreams? But on the other hand, if your goals change over time doing? The fact is that they are still very confused, and I believe him until I try to do something.
Short, in my blissful ignorance and resignation was better because of problems I did. Whilst I do not say that you should stop blogging, in fact I am very pleased to read because I learn many things from you
But you made me see that they are in a cage without bars (and actually makes me feel this way), imprisoned inside of my insecurities and I dying to get out
Hello everyone!
September 24th, 2009 at 04:23
is true and Danz Hartur .. is just so '.. pero 'I must be honest .. I've been thinking a lot .. I do it every now and again .. Why 'I left a system where I was not hurt? I had everything but because 'I did? .... sites like those and other Tripluca similar .. they make you see the alternative ... but believe me from thinking and dreaming and then really get to decide before or at least accept and comply with a new idea, there is' half an ocean huge! what I mean is that having made a decision of this magnitude in 33 years sounds completely vaccianato and adult .. My decision had very little affected by a push websites that ideas like "you know that there is another life outside the Matrix?" I really decided, because 'I was in discomfort before knowing the site of Luke .. and when I saw the site of Luke tried admiration for those who already 'failed us ... but if I got where they are and why' I know the system, I've tried plenty, I've dabbled in and I saw all the positives and negative .. and I finally decided that it was not for me .. and especially not for me it belonged to the Matrix working for others ... not for me to stay in the matrix at 100 percent because they are not capable of respecting all the rules therein ... and not the CPAC to live like others expect live, or consumption as the system expects consumption .. and then live in the matrix. my way, I appreciate its good points but lived separate from that which is based on consumerism at all costs .. in short, a rather 'unusual to be part of the matrix ... .. However, I also think that sometimes do well out of the matrix .. otherwise it risks being completely absorbed by a system that does not always makes you good ...