Bangkok, 17 September 2009.
This morning we got up late, 10 and a half, and before you get to work I had to go down to drink a cappuccino.
As he drank, sat outside, passing herds of boys and girls out of school early (it seems to be a day of celebration).
They were all in uniform, divided into small groups and seemed happy, as they always seem to adolescents, even in this age are often difficult disoriented.
In addition to hormonal upheavals, to see your body changing, to try to understand if you are beautiful or ugly, etc. .. is an age in which you are desperate for acceptance by the group.
You do not want to be different, you want to be equal, and therefore reduce the most visible aspects of your personality and will adapt 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 entry into the stomach, began to rise slowly to the brain and when it has reached mass-acceleration of thought is started, it 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 is from 1999), but more appropriate than "the Company", which is 60 years too, Woodstock and future leftists shouting revolutionary slogans tributaries before being reabsorbed by the company itself and become an integral and conservative.
The term "Matrix" is more appropriate, because it expresses well the feeling of moving freely, but to do so within clearly defined limits, untouchable and invisible.
So, I see these kids in white uniforms and blue, perfectly receptive to any statement of compliance.
Just emerged from childhood where "this is not done" and "this is not good," begin to be accountable in a more sophisticated. The decision is said to have their life and it shows a road you have to study, prepare for a profession, then work five days a week from 9 to 5, set aside some money, buy a house, and teach children riprodurvi what you have learned you, so you can replace when you will not be here anymore.
They are told they are free to decide, but within certain limits.
What is particularly evident in Thailand (and Asia in general), where the levels of conformity comes to frustrating, but it is a bit all over the world.
In no country society encourages individualism, because it would be as if a general purpose operating system only exceptions, and without being able to manage them.
Every exception, every person with a different idea, is a latent danger for a system.
We know, however, that it grows and is strengthened only by persons outside the box, to revolutionary ideas and actions meaningless.
Without those, the system slowly dies.
It is proof of the technological and financial superiority of the less authoritarian, especially in the western world.
The collapse of the Soviet Union was largely due to the fact that the system stifled in the bud and independent thinking, 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 material of a kind ... see "the 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 the 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 part of in various ways, I have rejected the system, not live (yet) in a tent in a hostel in George Town (who reads the Monkey will understand me) and I just like a hyena plinskins, to bite the corpse of the victim, when the lion looks the other way.
Now, the Matrix does his duty, so you can not blame too much: it is a living organism that has the primary goal of self-preservation, that is organized accordingly.
And, as mentioned, the Matrix better tolerate individuality, because they are strengthened.
But remain Matrix: highly sophisticated systems that can not be seen from the inside, which are able to cancel any perception of their existence to individuals who belong to it.
When he had finished his cappuccino and began to pick up the little foam left on the sides of the bowl, I thought about my project of online business and asked myself: you want to see this thing started as a simple business idea, do not become a kind mission to Che Guevara?
A struggle for the freedom of other people?
Today, in 2009, what sense does it go into the jungle with a group of revolutionaries and try to fight the government?
And 'the government does not make us free today?
No, we are ourselves. And 'adapt to our rules and do not see a way out of a
The government makes you do what you want. You can leave tomorrow if you want, you have euros, not rubles, the passport you release them when you want and how he demonstrated the Monkey (again), with 2500 euros you can feel around 10 months and visit 13 countries, so those are all excuses that are to stay at home: it is pure fear, instilled daily under your skin in 20, 30 years of the Matrix.
You do not have a fault, but at least just got consciousness.
Obviously never become a Che, nor want to be (the mustache does not sit well with me), and will continue to fight only for myself, immersed in chronic selfishness is the very basis of capitalism.
But if as a side effect, I pointed the way and perhaps open a door to some people who then made a dream will still be a satisfaction, and perhaps I found the taste to be different.
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September 17th, 2009 at 07:53
You've opened a road to me, I'm getting slowly lumbering along, maybe one day I will join you, while a good journey to you!
September 17th, 2009 at 09:02
Hello Luke ... nice post ... congratulations. You dream ...
But if you think in countries like those in which you are now in a video game as they had the keys to the locked door ...
and I was stuck in a dimension "Kyrby Italian" as defined by the monkey .... What would you invent?
See you there in a similar situation ... I've never asked?
Hello ... Thurs. Bit of 2006 along with the Cujo!
September 17th, 2009 at 11:05
Hello Luke,
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I read your last post and I must say that we have taken in full, it's time you become aware of what they are and who you have become a whole lot of people, Neo of the Matrix, Che (here my heart swells ) or, as I see you, Christopher Columbus (and do not laugh
And 'it!
Sure other people in the past have made life choices that you did, but without sharing their ideas and experiences on the net ...
What one then decides to embrace your philosophy as a whole, leaving work and starting, or remain within the Matrix because of its tentacles bound by the responsibility, in my opinion a marginal, and only refers to the budget of individual life path.
What really counts is the awareness of their status, ie to the right location and value to situations that revolve around you.
Do not be eating the soul of the system.
I had already realized some of the dynamics, Matrix is many things but mostly she's a thief in the minutes, minutes and hours of my life.
I steals the Matrix Time!
It was just an intuition far, then one day I ended up on your site and ... Shit! One who speaks the same dialect has opened my handcuffs, climbed on a caravel and set off into the unknown!
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He put it in the ass to everyone (even if it is removed
My head has opened up like a watermelon ...
People like you are really rare, they should get a life senator of the Free Republic of Good Living.
Thanks Luke! [
September 17th, 2009 at 14:40
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on a topic of astronomy. He spoke of how the Earth orbits around the Sun as the Sun and, in turn, performs a wide revolution around the middle of a huge cluster of stars known as our galaxy. After the conference, a little old lady down the hall stood up and said: "What you told us are all lies. The world, in fact, is a flat disk 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 each turtle rests on another turtle."
September 17th, 2009 at 16:00
The "that" maybe not, definitely Boluda
September 18th, 2009 at 00:23
I will follow you for a while 'and every time your articles make me think ... thanks a lot for these pills! In January I go to Malaysia in April and I have a ticket to Bali .. If you are still over there maybe we can learn ..
September 18th, 2009 at 07:48
But stop bothering with Thai children's story of the Matrix! Once we gave the candy, now draws me even half of Che Guevara? But shame on you!
September 19th, 2009 at 06:32
@ Andrew, you're ahead!
@ Jo: I'm lost. Should I find the post of the Monkey. I pass it?
@ Albert: I disagree. Knowing that in a place and leave it differs from the stay. And the psychological pressure is too strong .... We must get out of it physically.
@ Nad: have not slept for two days trying to figure out
@ 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 bad matrix when betrays the others who have managed to get out of the Matrix and the machines helps to find them for the opportunity to go back inside and return to the Matrix to live in it without the knowledge that exists. He was referring to the fact that if you're in a system, do not feel it, can not imagine that there is not, you're well within that system. The problem is when you discover that there is 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 has lulled you for life. Why do we come from out of the system when "discover" that exists? No, it is because out of the world is more beautiful than it is to curiosity or pride (not to be one who submits to a system, not one that is controlled by the matrix, for the pride of being a free individual and independent) nothing more. The truth is that each of the two "worlds" have their negatives and positives, and probably if you lived in ignorance of its existence, the world inside the matrix is far more beautiful than living out in the knowledge of what is inside.
Freedom is not objective, is subjective, if you feel free you're free if you live that you call the company matrix in the right way you can be happy and free without going in search of something different. Moral of the story and just live.
September 20th, 2009 at 17:21
The image of the Matrix to me makes it even for an 'other reason, when the boss what he describes Neo Neo test: what's back? If you remain alone system and its antibody push you to think that they are fantasies, that the road is the "good guy" who works, etc. childrearing. To serve this community like this, to feel that you are 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 find that we have guessed Danz in full ... I have so many problems that no one has ever made them, I thought it was part of the daily routine of 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 in this light and then I thought it was "normal" and you can not do anything.
Then surfing 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 wonder if my way of life is right, I'm not so convinced ...
What is the purpose of life if you do not follow your dreams? But on the other hand, if your goals change over time you do? The fact is that they are still very confused, and I believe him until I try to do something.
In short, in my blissful ignorance and resignation was better because I did not have problems. I will not absolutely say that you should stop blogging, I am very pleased indeed to read because I learn many things from you
But I did see that you are in a cage without bars (and actually I feel just like that), imprisoned within my insecurities and I have a strong desire to quit
Hello everyone!
September 24th, 2009 at 04:23
Danz, and it is true .. Hartur it is so '.. but 'I must be honest .. I've been thinking a lot .. still do from time to time .. 'Cause I gave up a system where I was not evil? I had everything but 'cause I done? .... sites like those of other similar and Tripluca .. Or do you see ... but believe me from thinking and dreaming and then get to decide or at least very first to accept and comply with a new idea, there is' half of a huge ocean! What I mean is that having made a decision of this magnitude in 33 years played entirely vaccianato and adult .. my decision was a boost very little affected by websites that spread ideas like "you know that there is another life outside the matrix?" I decided to really 'cause my discomfort was inside before you know the website of luca .. and when I saw the site I tried Luke admiration for those who already 'had done it ... but if I got where I am is' cause I know the system, I tried it thoroughly, I've dabbled in and I saw all the positives and negative .. and in the end I decided that just is not for me .. and especially not for me to appartanere Matrix working for others ... not for me to stay in the matrix to 100 percent because they are not able to comply with all rules there ... and not have to live like other CPAC expect live, or eat as the system expects consumption .. and then live in the matrix. my way, I appreciate its good points, but I lead a life detached from that which is based on consumerism at all costs .. in short, a bit like a 'crash to be part of the matrix ... .. However I also think that sometimes do well out of the matrix .. otherwise you may be completely absorbed by a system that will not always do good ...