A post pandemic random rant

Roshan R Naganathan
3 min readFeb 26, 2022

A 12 year cycle is always famously known for completion, a closing of some sort in the human timeline. I’d like to personally pick 2008 as the point of reference here with Avial coming out with their killer debut album and the world experiencing a legendary Sound Awake by Karnivool simultaneously.

Linear time folks who were least worried about some albums releasing out in the world did not anticipate the loss of control.

Cause and effect plays the main game in their heads, which is exactly why I'm trying to explain it in their simpleton language although not with the usual pinch of rationality which is suited to their taste buds.

"Revolutionary" is just a matter of shift in perspective, and over time the secrets of being and the universe spread like wildfire with the internet serving as a common accessibility point for any kind of information.

2020 saw the late realisation in the very same people in power, thirsty for control, fidgeting, not knowing how to respond to the awakening of consciousness due to the unprecedented consolidation of available resources actualising the truth of being.

Sad is the word for describing the attempt to shroud it with a fancily modified version of the common cold that has the potential to kill only from the mass hysteria created by a supporting front end media and not by itself; a kind of "suffocation" that ended up manifesting physically.

Like always, the human brain and body is subjected to evolution in such cases where the "tragedy" was overcome through a tenuous process of acceptance and fighting.

Just when the third wave resided and people got adjusted to the "new normal", the hidden ones with the financial control probably decided that it was best to crowd the conscious thought with the dooming possibility of war.

A display of power never got anyone anywhere is what history teaches repeatedly, real power reveals itself without a need for assertion.

Even though these events that are aforementioned are terrifying, there is a sense of irony that is prevalent when the depth of desperation unfurls in the scale of how macroscopic and widespread these attempts are.

The same agenda is carried through with the developing concept of a metaverse. This inevitably paints a dystopian picture of people glued in on their VR devices, earning money, points, and land that is on the other end of the spectrum where real is usually plotted.

Of course since there is a considerable number of people giving in, this will be a commonly accepted theme in the collective. The real problem comes in when the conscious engaging of thought is filtered through the metaverse for the meta to actually enter the subconscious, when even the dreams are about the fake world that claims reality due to common acceptance. Programming becomes easy once the program is run 2 inches away from your eyes with artificial light.

For the few who don't choose to be in there, the outside world will look pale, normal money and businesses running them with a sense of dread, like how the local cab drivers who don't wish to sign up with Uber now loathe the digital enablement.

Again, I'm no one to predict the future and by stating all this in a medium, there is already a probability that this possibility has played out and hence changing the whole system on a basal level.

What's really concerning is the cluttering of the collective with all that's unreal and the imposition of all these on the everyday human who is defenceless and hasn't been taught occlumency, ultimately making everyone giving in.

Tethered to the meek possibility of actualising in a commonly accepted unreal world, there is a chance that each individual will be their own asylum.

Hey, who knows, the metaverse may also have its own asylum, for treating people affected with reality, using the best in class medical science to treat them back to digital normalcy.

No motivation - Flawed Mangoes.

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