Bastardization of Humanity
This article first appeared in August 2012 on this blog. Some updates added.
Bastardization of Humanity.
On the TV show, the Kardashians Bruce Jenner comes into view. He talks and walks and I'm sure he goes to the toilet like any other human being. Yet something isn't quite right to look at him.
Coming from an athletic world clearly the 62-year-old is in good shape. He has his own hair, plenty of teeth that look great regardless if they were made in a laboratory or not. Yet looking at his face … no lines, no wrinkles, no sagging, ironed flat forehead, his eyes can barely close due the tightness of his skin and even his skin looks almost transparent from the point of view of a TV camera.
Then in the UK we have our own TV darlings that look and feel like they have been pumped, stripped, re-painted, recovered and veneered. A show called TOWIE has the endless procession of inflated cleavage, out-of-proportion lips, movement-free smiles and tans that are painted on like a restoration of an old car desperate to look like a good car. It seems almost every TV show, every newspaper; every media feed has become overly obsessed with what is a natural feature or function of the human being. To really highlight this Prince Williams's wife Kate has been revealed to own a pair of breasts. Yes, one breast on each side. This was such a monumental discovery that it made every media outlet all over the globe in hours. This made the photographer very rich and sold literally millions upon millions of magazines.
Is this part of the bastardization of humanity, the self-destruct button that takes humanity every now and then down a path that can only be resolved by the absolute total collapse of the current cultures? Far out thinking? Not really.
Reality shows cannot be or present reality. For one thing, nothing looks real yet is presented as real. The eyelashes, the looks, the feel and the presentation of a dream-like vision of happiness.
This layer is masterfully put on to present the world with a veneered vision of what a group of media thinkers and feeders put into the world to feed and zoomanically transfix mankind. Usually, they will be short on balance, short on reality, short on thought and short on a long-term vision of the effect of the bastardization of humanity in a deeper and deeper zoomanic trancelike state.
What are the goals of the feeders of the media streams? The feeders of media have one goal. That goal is sales. Sales override the effect of this media dribble on human beings. They don't care about the effect on humanity in a world where numbers are king. More viewers watch, more viewers want.
Young children now ask to be surgically enhanced. They see moments; snapshots of a proposed dream life presented in multiple media and accept those happy moments presented as they aim to be achieved as a life.
It doesn't take a genius to peel back the layers of many public figures that smile, dance, show off and walk arm in arm with new partners almost weekly to reveal chaos, drug infestations, unhappy situations that are trapping and feelings of depression and lives unfulfilled. Drug deaths are almost held to be the next step to an eternal future. Un-ageing heroes raised to new levels of beating the system and of course smashing sales records.
Even our 21st century gadgets have us entranced, feeding us more and more and more of what we don't really need to know. Forcing us to live our lives at the levels of the lives of others when the reality is it takes away focus from our lives - focus that in lots of cases is so desperately needed. The gap of spirit or spiritual gap has to be filled. It appears man needs a higher source of some kind to create a sense of being and a sense of peace.
The bastardization of humanity has removed faith from spirit to faith in consumption. Yet the consumption is followed by digestion! The god of shopping and want to fill a need; get devoured by the needers only to ask for another top-up and more consumption. The temple of the shopping mall has never been so over-powering. More gadgets, more clothing, more stuff and of course more trappings of the human with more credit.
Profanity is the new language.
Death is the new entertainment.
Greed is the new food.
Lust is the new love.
Covet is the new desire.
Now is the new future.
So where does this all lead?
The bastardization of humanity as we know it. Where lines have been removed, boundaries have been abolished and the sense has become senseless. History shows we cannot get away with it yet we always feel we can and maybe that is because can only see things in our own short life span (70 plus years) - not in the life span of history (centuries or millenniums).
In other words, the bastardization of humanity is almost like planting an acorn right now at the front of your house because it looks and feels nice right now. Yet Oak trees are huge powerful trees. So powerful in fact its roots alone could be the fall of the house. When the tree is planted it's almost impossible to see the long-term effects, good or bad.
What we are all experiencing in humanity right now appears to be based on quick-fix, fast indulgence, short-term vision or no vision. The results always reveal themselves. The truth of what is right, wrong, bad or good for human beings doesn't have to be set on paper it reveals itself in form.
Yes, the bastardization of humanity is well underway and the result will reveal itself in time. So what can we do right now? Well, you could go and live in a cave to step out of everything but that would be ridiculous. You could embrace the new-age vision, become part of a cult or spend your days praying but that would lead to an imbalance of the nature of man.
The best thing you could do right now is to simply be aware, be awake and be on the watch for anything that could directly affect the way you are as a human. Be careful what you allow into your eyes. Be watchful of what you allow past your ears. Be mindful of what you read. Be conscious of what you talk about. Do the zoomanic feeders have you in their grip?
Alan Forrest Smith