Covid-19: Pausing the dystopian movie before the end

I think that the pandemic and the ensuing lockdown gave us a unique opportunity to look at ourselves and how we lived our lives “from the side”, like pausing a movie and receiving the chance to step outside of the movie and see what role we have been playing in it so far.

And if we do this review honestly with true self-critique instead of the usual automatic self-justification, we would get a shocking revelation!

We have been living in a dystopian movie, civilization all along, submitting ourselves to terrible torture, living a completely pointless, suffering filled life, sacrificing everything for nothing!

We have been that “proverbial battery” in the Matrix as Neo discovered in the movie.

We willingly abandoned our Humanity, our positive Human connections, our families in order to produce and chase, consume products, services we actually do not need and throw away days, weeks after purchasing them.

We have been sinking into debt which we pay for with new debts, thus despite surrounding ourselves with material possessions, stuff all the time we own nothing.

We develop medicine only in order to keep us alive against a completely unnatural, unhealthy lifestyle while we are methodically destroying the natural environment which gives us life.

And as we get increasingly depressed, frustrated by this we willingly accept the mindless, aimless, cheap “circus and bread” entertainment, the almost freely available alcohol and drugs (prescribed, unprescribed) to escape reality and uncomfortable questions about meaning, purpose.

And when we realize we should build mutually responsible, mutually complementing interconnections, cooperation in order to survive in a globally integrated, interdependent world we evolved into, we close our eyes and continue with our ruthless, exclusive competitions, survival at the expense of others distorting the “famous” (totally misinterpreted) Darwinian principle.

If intelligent aliens came and looked at us they would not believe that such an unintelligent race existed that uses the gift of life to destroy themselves and everything around them like cancer.

Thus hopefully the pandemic and the lockdown will last long enough so we could make such an honest, critical self-assessment and become ready to change ourselves and through changing ourselves change the world and where we develop from here!