In 2025, it should no longer be debatable but clear as a blue sky that the world is a stage and we are all actors. It will also be wild not to see just how, in the name of progress and development, life has become so scripted. This is to the point that one may easily predict or predetermine how their life would turn out. The impression is that one has the power and choice on what life they would like to experience, but in fact, even that choice was already made for them. At a time when humanity is deeply overwhelmed with a mental health crisis, regardless of the efforts to mitigate the situation, the last resort and resolution could be what it has been avoiding for years. 

In its lack of self-reflection and awareness, humanity continues to self-mislead while causing irreparable damage to its own psyche. In its conquest to satisfy its insatiable greed, not only has it begun to self-destruct, but it has also lost its natural identity. This has gone far beyond the point of self-correction and recourse, to the point where it must be pretending that even confusion and degeneracy are glorified as progress. 

Beautifully curated speeches, titles, and group-thinking associations, as legit and purposeful as they may seem, are nothing more than cosmetics to cover a decomposing and obsolete system. Just like they say, to lie once one must be prepared to lie nine more times, this is a shoe that fits today’s society, and it must wear it – “wil of nie”. To pretend that humanity can continuously go astray from its natural ways and face no consequences for transgressing the laws of nature is unthinkable. It is unfathomable that no matter how many lessons humanity is presented with, it just never learns. 

As a result, it takes no responsibility for its misfortune and instead attributes it to a supernatural cause. Because of this confusion, humanity shall continue to be absorbed in the pigsty of its false wisdom. Although there seems to be no point of return for humanity, not all hope is lost. Although it may be speeding on a highway to self-destruction, there seems to be a faction of it that wishes to get off. This faction, which may be just a fraction of society, has for some time now been pointing out how the system is rigged. Although it should be applauded for a cause in the right direction, it may as well be prepared for a rude awakening. 

Sooner or later, it may realise that “the system” is not rigged but rather working just as perfectly as it was designed to, by its “owners”. 

This wishful-thinking faction may also soon realize that “the system” is not even a standalone entity but a collection of subset systems of which even this wishful choir may be complicit. 

Since not everything is promised, the only thing that can be promised is that once one sees the pretense, the fakery, the fraud, and the corruption of this scripted life, it cannot be unseen. 

* Uncommon Sense is published in the New Era with contributions from Karlos Naimwhaka. YouTube channel: Karlos Lokos 

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