Another Day, Another System
They tell us we signed a social contract. But nobody offered us a pen. We were drafted into a rigged game at birth and told the rules are just the way things are.
We don't deserve to be poor. In a world of manufactured scarcity, poverty isn't a personal failure or bad luck. It is a targeted weapon. It is a system of abuse designed to keep people too exhausted to question the contract.
We are the ones who looked at the blueprint and saw it was entirely fake. This is our dark comedy.
// RELIGION Hell is a death threat. The Devil is a muzzle used to silence doubt. Terrorizing a child with the promise of eternal torture if they misbehave is psychological abuse, plain and simple. Forcing them to accept make-believe as absolute fact destroys their ability to reason. Swapping the scientific method for ancient magic doesn't just retard the mind; it replaces a working compass with a spinning needle. And for providing this service of mass delusion, the government rewards them with a tax break.
// SCHOOL It starts early. A C in math doesn't just mean you struggle with numbers; it stamps you as a C human for life, conditioning you to accept mediocrity as your destiny. In higher ed, they just inflate the grades to fake the success, handing out diplomas like receipts for tuition paid. The classroom is a loony-bin, but they don't fix the room—they drug the kids that freak out the loudest. We pathologize natural human reactions to a boring, artificial environment, calling it a disorder. Teachers are reduced to clerks reading state-issued scripts. You can't fire them, so they lose the drive to inspire. A kid gets beaten up the hallway, and the adult looks away, because intervening isn't in the job description. The textbooks aren't written to enlighten; they are propaganda wrapped in cardboard, teaching compliance under the guise of curriculum.
// POLITICS We elect holograms. Real leaders should be found in the trail they leave—their art, their writing, the businesses they built—not in how they smile on a TV screen after weeks of media training. A political lie should be a crime. A broken campaign promise is fraud, and we should prosecute it as such. Instead, they operate on "fake it till you make it," doing as little as possible while pretending to care. They ride the election carousel, simply waiting their turn at the lever. They put lipstick on a pig; they can't fix healthcare, they can only break it differently, because there is no consensus between the predatory and the compassionate. And when their failures finally catch up to them? They send our children to die in their wars, paying for political incompetence with young blood.
// THE SPECIES They want us stunted. They need us half-grown so we fit neatly into their economic slots and consumer queues. But a human being is meant to grow all the way up. We are not supposed to stop evolving at the age they hand us a diploma and a drug prescription. Every single one of us is a born genius. The tragedy isn't that genius is rare; the tragedy is that it is universal, and universally starved. We are geniuses held back by poverty—kept too busy surviving to ever truly live, too drained to build the masterpiece we carry inside. We are meant to become great beings. Instead, they build a society designed to ensure we never reach our own horizon.
We can't just exist in a machine we were shoved into. We have to see the wires, question the blueprint, and understand the foundation we're standing on. We don't vote for brand-name politicians. We don't vote for broken systems. We vote for ideas. We demand the space to grow all the way up.
// THE AUDIT: YES OR NO
Answer Yes or No. You won’t hand this in, because the answers are already inside you. Get stuck.
[ ] YES / [ ] NO – Do you want to tolerate a religion that supports slavery, just because it’s traditional? [ ] YES / [ ] NO – Do you support tax exemptions for institutions that threaten children with eternal torture? [ ] YES / [ ] NO – Is it acceptable to replace a child's reasoning with blind obedience to make-believe? [ ] YES / [ ] NO – Should a child be drugged into submission because the curriculum is maddening? [ ] YES / [ ] NO – Should a kid be stamped as a failure for life because they didn't fit the grading curve? [ ] YES / [ ] NO – Is it fine for adults to ignore a bullied kid because intervening is "above their paygrade"? [ ] YES / [ ] NO – Should a political lie ever be tolerated, when a lie anywhere else is called fraud? [ ] YES / [ ] NO – Do you want to elect leaders based on their TV makeup, rather than the proof of their life's work? [ ] YES / [ ] NO – Is it acceptable for politicians to do absolutely nothing, riding the system until they can "fake it till they make it"? [ ] YES / [ ] NO – Would you let your child die in a war, just to cover up a career politician's failure? [ ] YES / [ ] NO – Do you believe human beings are naturally mediocre, rather than geniuses held back by design? [ ] YES / [ ] NO – Are you content to stop growing, just because the system told you adulthood is the end of your evolution? [ ] YES / [ ] NO – Do you consent to a social contract you never signed, just because they told you it was the rule?