psyche

I am in a strange state, having played various Command & Conquer games for almost two days with breaks only to eat, sleep and go to the bathroom. I am hopeful that I’ll learn a lot in computing next year and it’s a shame I have to play off chemistry against computing for A2. If I could do both, I would. Does anyone know if we can do five? Does Further Maths count as a half at A2?
Anyway, this is a society in which we are born into and given a choice: accept the system or be rejected and imprisoned/killed. The system is such that either one works and gains money required to live (because life has been monopolised by “civilisation”) or one fails at life, simply put. Previously, we sort of hunted for food, or something. Now the system provides us with energy and sustenance in exchange for co-operation (not in a political way - simply fuelling the massive machine that is civilisation by working and perpetuating it). We are disconnected from the real world, living out our lives fascinated by things which mean nothing, oblivious as nature is harvested, sinking into consumerism and decadence as the reality of nature becomes more horrific and less likely to ever be understood.

What is The Matrix? Guess. The really saddening thing about having been brought up in a mass-media culture is that the logic I know, the criticial reasoning I believe to be sound, may be such a narrow viewpoint that I will never understand the bigger picture, but hey, I’ll try!

We are the pwned generation, it seems.

Pax