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Human Term: Reality
Humans cling to reality with such desperation, but what is it really? Do the majority of people even know?

Reality is nothing to humanity. Reality is a term that society uses to describe the current situation in the world, which popular society decides the validity of. Being realistic is simply another way for you to conform to the wishes of the masses. To fall in line. In a consumer-based society, can you honestly expect anyone to purposefully help you be an individual, to buck the system? No, that isn't reality. Reality is, in all actuality, the thinly veiled false world...it is the hidden meaning, the life behind your life.

You are slaves to your job, to your television, to your bank account. You worship this black box around which your entire living room is arranged. You worship woefully inefficient and illegally dangerous means of transportation. You do exactly as you are told, yet you are given enough 'reality' to think you actually have some form of control, that you are a rebel...heck, you're an individual! Which is why TV lulls you to sleep every night, so that you can wake up and slave your life way all day tomorrow. And the day after.

Reality is something very few humans will ever glimpse, let alone live. Some glimpse it only through dreams and semi-lucid ramblings brought upon by dire circumstances that affect absolutely nothing.

Your perception of reality is only your view of a world carefully crafted to keep you complacent, working, buying and gullible. This perception is nothing more than the thousands of lives you have been told to view and judge the world by. You have never seen the world because you have created these lies in order to deny and ignore anything that makes you uncomfortable or uneasy.

And these lies that you hold onto, with every part of your being, have become the new reality.

Although now, as I am sure you little TV watching rebels have come to notice, there is Reality TV. Do me a favor...go look up the origins of television, then look at how television--as an industry--evolved. Television has never, not once, in all of its long life, EVER been about reality. It has been about escape, about forgetting how much pain you are in, how hopeless certain paths in life are. Reality is about subduing the masses.

But with the new and improved REALITY TV...that's all changed, admiral!

Now we can vote people off of television shows...FUCK ME, THIS IS REALISTIC! WE CAN CONTROL THE FATES AND DESTINIES OF OTHER LOSERS! We can watch people chase down their food, kill it, pluck it, clean it, then whine about eating it and then still eat it! YEEHAW! We need more of this...

Simple fact: if it was reality TV, we could decide who lives and dies. Survivor? Fuck them, that's false advertising unless the point of the show is whoever doesn't get killed wins.

You've been taught to see slavery as something physical...chains, whips, physical pain. That is not the case, that is not reality.


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