Living But Dead

Living But Dead

By Claudia Berdella

Live
Everyone lives. 
But in reality not everyone does. 

Some merely robotically go through pre-programmed motions and thoughts for some 60+ years then die, typically having offspring who will only repeat this depression cycle. This is repressive, it doesn’t allow people to feel like an individual, it stunts the feeling of climbing the ever-changing social ladder, and this really makes anyone who is caught in its deadly claws bound to go insane. The Unabomber Manifesto says this sort of thing perfectly, and it’s hard to deny the possible validity of it, just look at all these mass shooters- white, middle class (typically) males who aren’t climbing up the ladder they were promised would be conquered by them, they can’t climb it so they feel stagnated and feel as if taking drastic measures to be known is the only viable option. And this is absolutely not limited to that archetype, it can happen (and does happen) to anyone who is stuck and put into such a state of stagnation and circular “living”- if you can call being pre-programmed alive, it sounds more artificial than anything… synthetically pathetic. Is there a way to fix this? There is no set-in-stone answer as of yet, but maybe the removal of repressive traditional norms could be a good place to begin reform. It is quite possible however, that an answer will never be produced- after all, if humans stopped preying on one another, could the species survive long?

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