Much ado about electricity

Some days, I wish that electricity never existed. That people woke up in the morning and went to sleep at night. I wish no one plundered our night skies and replaced it with our own artificial constellation.

The stars are most visible when it is the darkest.

I love the gray sky. I love power cuts. I love when my mobile goes quiet, and all that is left is a remnant of the machine world, trying so hard to hold its own in sonic real estate.

Maybe it is my heart that is cluttered with artificiality. Veins and vessels pumping silicone instead of blood. What do I really want? What do the people around me really want. If electricity never existed, the world would be a better place. a simpler, quieter place. People wouldn't fight that much because the sun god regulates the day; and at night, everyone needs a huddle to fend off the cold. Autonomous man is a curse and a crippling disease that will eat us alive before dawn breaks.

It puzzles me that most of what we say we want and need, we don't really, rather it has become more reactionary rather than inspiration. Why do we want? Isn't "because" a good enough answer? Isn't "I was inspired to..." worth anything anymore? No, because this, or this, or that, or that.

Fear. Lucid Fear written all over its sorry face.

Where does fear come from, if not from the lies that tell us we are dirt, that we are post-modern survivalist apes who have no choice nor say nor influence on the way anything goes. Lies that tell us we must this or this, or that. Shadows that freak us out at night, that only result in scarlet walls when we try to fight.

Those silly things. They waste so much of our time and energy. Just turn the lights on for crying out loud! Yet sometimes the dark is more comforting because we have much to hide.

And who told you so? If not the master shadow puppeteer who roars with no teeth. He turns us all against each other, in our sorry states. He creates images this split us into our sorry denominations.

It's about time someone flicked the switch...