72. The New world!

A uniformity of cultures set in at the end of the twentieth century with capitalism turning countries into markets. People were made to believe the economies are more important than their own lives.

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Dreams about luxurious lives were (are) spread among people through advertisements, and people began chasing money, leaving behind whatever little was left of their humanitarian values. The economic system influenced political systems and globalisation connected the economies of nations like in a circuit; one part of the circuit meets a shock, the entire system collapses. On the other hand, connectivity grew between countries through internet, social media and satellite communication.

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In the uniform economic system, the country with most wealth holds power. This means the other countries are turned into dependent markets whose governance, education, employment and every other system can be controlled by the powerful country. In such an economic scenario, people in both the powerful and dependent countries are constantly kept in a consumerist mentality through a well-coordinated use of media.

Wherever we turn our heads, an advertisement or an information plaque or an image is played in front of our eyes, and before our brains could process the information we see or hear about, another advertisement is flashed up. Repetition of this exercise in all forms of media disorients our thought process. Usually, our brains take a few seconds to associate the images we see, with our memories, but if the advertisement speed is faster than our brain’s processing speed, our chain of thoughts is broken down constantly.

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We know, thoughts make up the mind, and the mind shapes up personalities. When our brains’ functions are hindered, in the long run, our minds and our personalities are affected. The extreme cases are psychopaths and sociopaths, and we constantly hear about such disturbed persons from across the world. Midway between a healthy mind and psychopaths are the half-thinking personalities forming the majority population, that is, us.

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The economic system is turning us into machines by being told what to think, what not to think, what to eat, what to do, whom not to question and whom to completely obey, all the time. We are stuck inside a debt system that constantly keeps us running to our jobs, for our lives. With fear of automation on one side and the fear of job loss on the other, there’s simply no time to think, but to just keep working.

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In general, people are kept smart enough to realise they are dumb and dumb enough to believe they have choices. The meaning of life is lost inside the system, and whenever someone starts to think about life, their abstinence from the order is termed a psychological effect and they are named too, mid-life crisis, retirement blues and so on.

No person in the past had these psychological problems and even the thoughts that these effects are unnatural, are never allowed to enter our minds (by the system).

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If any person is fortunate enough to deviate from this system, the entire society is made to frown upon the person as being crazy, while they are the actual ones who’re weak enough to have stopped thinking. We can write an entire book about the debt system we are living through, but right now, our concern is how God works inside this hell.

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Love factor still holds out to be the God, but the rapid changes our societies go through have made us lose empathy from our lives. We have stopped caring about our fellow humans; we separate ourselves from each other in the names of race, colour, religions, caste, culture and so on. We are continuously building up walls in our minds, segregating people.

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We divide people into the ones whose interests are aligned with ours and the ones we don’t like. There’s simply no one we genuinely like or love. Love, empathy and peace have lost their meaning, and the people who miss them have turned to the factor enforcing all these values together from inside our minds. In short, our conscience is growing up to be the God of this age.

But that is not all. Not all people think this deep.

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