Lust of the Libertine

Are we striving for things we already have? A misconception of desire perhaps. Not your new cellphone, but the ability to communicate. Not a new video game, but the depths of imagination. More money? Or abundance? We seem to sell ourselves to a materialism in a desperate attempt to seek things we are manipulated into believing we don't already have. Technology is an incredible resource, as is gasoline, but our greed seems to drive us as society into a cage that won't let us explore the world for what it really is and the beauty we possess. Possession, wow what an interesting definition:

• the act of having and controlling property
• anything owned or possessed
• being controlled by passion or the supernatural
• monomania: a mania restricted to one thing or idea
• a territory that is controlled by a ruling state

Hm, so does it really make sense that we humans possess inanimate objects? Controlling, owning, restricting, ruling these things with no power of thought, action, or life for that matter. It seems to completely contradict itself actually. The power lies entirely in our hands. We restrict ourselves, by using fear and authority. And believe me those who have the power of authority, know exactly what they can do with that power. Manipulate hundreds, thousands, millions of people? It doesn't seem too unlikely knowing that we are bombarded with advertisements and numerous forms of media every single day of our life. The power has even left the hands of those in charge. Life has been given to these inanimate objects, in such ways that we fiend for them, we rely on them, and for most of us, we need them to survive. We can only make a difference if we help the majority of people to enlighten and free themselves of their cages. It's almost as if these cages aren't even locked at all, we choose to stay in them because of fear. Lets help eachother out of these cages.

“Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”

T.S Elliott