TLWFY - essay on bullshit # 1

Swear when I wrote this I had no fucking idea who Slavoj Žižek is and what he does.

Some look on the world like it’s a musical. One makes a nod or yells: „hit it” and of course the music that fits the best starts to play from an unknown source. Everyone else is supporting this main act with providing chorus vocals and all these shit. Everyone knows how to move, the whole world is there for one person’s perfect performance. Even though musicals fucking suck most of the living creatures on earth would be so flattered to star one just once in their lives. To be seen is not some shallow desire. But making the whole world dance to your beats is one. And while everyone seems to be happy it’s just cheesy music with non-sense lyrics that no one takes serious and except for the main act everyone is just a simple tool what makes the background a bit more lively.
I on the other hand see the world as a zombie movie. Wikipedia says George A. Romero uses zombies as a political or social statement and i couldn’t really see them any different. Zombies always move in masses and in most of the movies they become a critical mass from where the people, who used to be normal, become the minority. We cheer for these used to be normals to survive because we in front of the screens still more closer to them. But we want them to stay alive for what? When the whole world is burning you maybe can take out the fire but then what’s gonna be left for you? All you will have are ashes and ruins. Buildings and damaged landscapes. Do they have that much sense without people? The weird thing about zombies is that they want you instinctively. It’s not clear if they want your brain out of hunger or are they just frustrated because you’re different. But when they bite you, you’ll become one of them. You can kill as many as you want or could but again there’s no real point except for calm and momentary feelings of safety. Which you can get if you hide. That’s the only weapon you can fight zombies. Cause zombies’ main goal is to make you one of them to be normal up to their standards. Is it that different from the society we live in now? How many times they, the whole world, want us to be like them. And when we won’t, they feel anger and want to destroy, control or hunt us. They make us hide. What we never see is how zombies function when there’re all just them. Do they still creep around slowly in masses? I know why they don’t show it. Cause if we saw them function in a society-like living structure what would be the point to keep staying out of it? I saw a movie called Blindness. It’s about a, sorry for the spoiler, brief diseases what makes everyone lose their sights so the world stops to work. What else could it do? All the great technological inventions need our eyes. I’m talking about vehicles when you see where you’re going with them and monitors on what you can see what you have to work on. Are we doomed without our eyes? What we see in this movie is the society trying to reorganize itself. Wait no. That’s what should happen. But rather it’s either complete chaos or total dictatorship. Everything has become incomprehensible fast and cruelly supported. We can’t wait for things if they won’t happen instantly. So require the whole world to wait and step back in technology few steps until the smartest people will create new tools what make our life easier to live is almost utopistic. So is it only our eyes to keep us socialized? I wonder if without seeing others, colors of our skins would still matter. Are we zombies for the blind? Putting out our frustration on them because they couldn’t fit in? If losing the ability to see would make this civilization fall then is one person’s tragedy a collapse?
Have no idea if the original book’s writer used sight with this intentions but i think it’s a great metaphor. Remember that horrible scene from Schindler’s List when so many people were shepherded into a huge shower objectum and the nazi soldiers turned the lights down on them? Many times i could feel this paranoia in today’s society. The constant fear of someone will turn the lights down on us so we won’t see anything. We’ll be just a bunch of people overpopulatedly close to each other confused and screaming in the dark. We are afraid of the weather, of economics, of homosexuals, of drug users, of radical thinkers, of different religions than ours, of god, of political parties, of nuclear bombs, of pedophiles, large countries that are either close to us or inject shitloads of money into their military. In every fucking minute something could collapse, snap, pushed and somehow we could feel the lights switched down on us. Uncertainty is the biggest enemy of ours and it’s hard to be certain in pitch-black. We could hide from this too. In the more classical sense zombies are just the living dead. Who are dead, barely functional but a bit are. Many have realized being scared and want to be some kind of a main act is too tiring as well. So they’ve chose to slow down and let themselves be bitten. Even if i’m not daydreaming about it, and wouldn’t really into this lame making it formal way i think i wouldn’t mind to marry someone i love. And if the world weren’t a fucked up, horrible place and for start my girlfriend / wife and i weren’t horrible people i maybe would conceive a child into all this. But it breaks my heart when i hear people talk about getting married and having kids before they even know who they want to marry or what they will do in the future. Maybe they are optimistic but the way they say it it’s more like an escape into all this. „My parents and everyone else i know did this so i have to do it as well”. Just because old people have died with a smile on their faces in their soft and comfy deathbeds it doesn’t mean the only way for us to achieve such happy ending is to follow their path. I don’t know if there’s any conclusion i’m heading towards with all this. Cause there are very few movies when no crucial character changings are happening and the main character won’t become a grow up or settle with his or her life. But that’s the movie i want for myself. Maybe become smarter but stay something like this what i am now. Without the need to feel all the time that zombies are fucking chasing me.