A NEW WORLD ORDER

“As soon as you are born they make you feel small.

By giving you no time instead of it all.

Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all

Working class hero is something to be”

These are lyrics from John Lennon's song “Working Class Hero.” I recently posted on Facebook that for most people, job title is the only thing they can boast. And that most people they don't even enjoy the jobs that they hold but will use the titles as a "glamour" front to appear as established and having it made... It’s sad.

In the current society that we live in, we have been institutionalised to denounce our creative geniuses for the promised land of job security and comfort. As attractive, and surely comforting this is, what it does it stops growth and creativity. It is actually a penitentiary used to imprison everyone throughout the spectrum without any regard for gender, age or colour.

We have been taught, quite literally, on how not to be individual and creative and that we should always strive to obey an order and renounce intuition. To conform and be obedient to authority and never seek out to find our own way. Each of us has been dealt this blow on our creative souls and only a few dare to be rebellious and non-conforming and break free from this bondage are the ones who shape the world to their standard. These are the misfits of society.

“Paranoia is in bloom,

The PR transmissions will resume

They'll try to push drugs that keep us all dumbed down

And hope that we will never see the truth around

Another promise, another seed

Another packaged lie to keep us trapped in greed

And all the green belts wrapped around our minds

And endless red tape to keep the truth confined"

The whole system (The Matrix) has been carefully organised to make you subordinate to the control of someone’s wishes and living according to the measures that they have set for everyone and disguised it as “the ultimate expression of success and happiness.” Many of us unfortunately have fallen to this gimmick of mass incarceration and many still do. We are being groomed from a very tender age, first through religion, and then the educational institutions, to be submissive and willing slaves to be exploited without question.

“They keep you doped with religion, sex and TV

And you think you’re so clever, classless and free

But you are still fucking peasants as far as I can see”

Often times when  people and want to strike a conversation to know each other, the most frequent question that is asked is, what do you do? Meaning what’s your place in the corporal world? What’s your job title? It is always interesting to observe how most people define themselves by titles they hold. They use that as a mark of their worth and accomplishment. And there is this pervasive feeling that “the more prestigious my title sounds the more worth I am.” Social classes are set by individuals who don’t see how the system has been devised to keep a few elite in power while many strive for pseudo status and success.

  

“There is room at the top they are telling you still

But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like all the folks on the hill”

We strive to be the smartest, the fastest, the prettiest, all in hopes of getting the first prize of being controlled and being a possession of a system that seeks to make revenue out of human spirits. And

many of have fallen to this trap. We compete and we kill to be at the top of the hill. A culture founded on the illusion of scarcity and separation.  We live in a society where having a job is more valued than having freedom. A society where job titled is favoured over ingenuity. Where passion is passed aside for consumption. And no one knows this better than the struggling artists, as our current business operation is bottom line driven than value and contribution driven. We are living a in a mad house where the media dictates what we wear, what’s trending,  and how we see ourselves. we stive to mimic the images being deliberately broadcasted of the false meaning of success and happiness.

As I had said in the beginning we live in society where most people the only thing that they have to boast about is a job title, and the saddest irony is that most don’t find joy in those positions. And they do bring what was promised, pseudo prestige and empty accolades from the masses as they congratulate you for possessing more stuff and not much of your life and time.

We are creative beings and this society tramples upon that without any mercy. We have been led to

denounce the biggest and the most prestigious portion of our beings and this, to create something out of nothing. To conceive and create things in our image which reflects our likeness, for we are not what we do but what we create. Defining yourself by the occupation you hold is the ultimate sign of lack of self-worth. 

Creatives, writers, poets, entrepreneurs, artists of all sorts, these are the people who hold the true substance of self-wroth, for they are measured by what they create from within and not from memorising equations or reciting clause or implementing policies. These are the people who are most alive because they are judged and critiqued for who they are and not how well they fit the job description.

If you are defining yourself and measuring your worth and success by how well you fit a job description just know that you are individuality and opting to be a clone. Relying upon your job to be your foundation of pride is relying of loose sands to build you castle on. They will get blown by the winds of time and soon it will all be gone and living you with just a dust to reminisce of your past “glories”. I have often seen and noticed the feeling of gloating among peers either in as former high school mates or varsity students of now being the typical definition of success. But many will not honestly tell you how their jobs are not what they enjoy and how they want to leave their job and pursue their passion. You can tell an individual’s self-awareness by how eagerly they boast about their art or their job title. One inspires, the other expires.

I am not what I do. I am what I create.

This is a less than upbeat article, I admit that and I do not intend to make you despair about the impossibility of escaping the current system. But rather, to invite you to the thrilling journey of reshaping how we as the current generation choose to set up a new system; to remould the matrix so that it inspires more than it leaves people in despair and drains them of any hope of a fulfilling future.

Currently we have been programmed to operate in survival and fear mode. I do not propose that we do away with the current matrix for that is an impossible feat since its instilled within the fiber of society. However what I do propose is a revolution - A rEvoltion of the mind, where we strive to evolve and elevate our consciouness by engaging the process of evolution consciously and defining ourselves by what comes within, rather than what jobs we hold. To set alight that creative spark within each of us in order to bring a New World Order. A New World Order no longer based in greed and intolerance but on fairness and respect for all life.. A world order that will lead to all man’s happiness.

As rock band Muses sings in the  “Uprising" song:

Come, let the revolution take its toll

If you could flick the switch and open your third eye

You'd see that we should never be afraid to die

Rise up and take the power back

It's time the fat cats had a heart attack

You know that their time's coming to an end

We have to unify and watch our flag ascend