Questions and Meditations

7 The baits

The entities, or groups of entities, that feed on our emotional discharges and feast on our terror and our extreme pleasure, are also our purveyors of intensity and this is indeed how we become their playthings. Without their intervention, interference and injections of vital influx, we seem to be abandoned to a gloomy, tedious and senseless existence or to the slavish endless demands and gross necessities of an aimless and sparkless life. We would perhaps wish to believe that it is but a matter of energy flow and exchange – we emit, we receive, is this not how everything works? Yet, the more our dependence increases and the more alienated we are from our consciousness and the deafer to its call. To have more, to acquire and possess more, to enjoy and profit more… one’s right to comfort, pleasure and entertainment… In this fashion, one’s well-being is measured by the amount of owned objects – soon to be thrown, discarded and replaced in the unceasing pursuit of more perfect yield and efficiency. An immense moving chain is gradually capturing all of us living human beings. *

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The manipulation of others, their objectification and exploitation, has become the norm; to make one’s career of it is normal and respectable.

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Obscene fortunes are thus amassed and the power of action conferred by wealth and money is placed in the hands of the new miserable, who are slaves to the images that move them, the ambitions that propel them and the stated intentions that serve them as profiling banners.

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