We live in a world
constructed by fragments. Everyday that
we wake up, we know that our lives are a small, yet important contribution to
this composition. We do not exist in isolation, and we are part of a whole. A whole
which turns out to be fake; deconstructed and reconstructed, taking away our
natural roots, and replacing it by plastic and concrete constructions. Our
parents and grandparents were so concerned with “progress”, forgetting the
definitions and the implications of the changes they were working so hard to
instill.
What have you created?
Don’t you see? We live in a world that is alienated. Urban centers packed with
people, and all their man made toys, make up our every-day experiences. More
people, more cars, more buildings, more airplanes, more factories, bigger
factories, bigger cars, bigger houses, newer, shinier, stronger, faster, better. Aha! “We are the generation of
progress”, you dare to think. “We are the generation of freedom, the generation
detached from nature, who improved technology and gave you all these luxuries”.
But do you believe you could ever outrun nature by creating this technologic
utopia, you, the ingenious human? Could your plastic creations ever serve you
as nature has done for a million years? Or has the result of making everything
a commodity made your transactions easier? Be careful of the words you use,
think twice, because your lack of thinking has brought us in this mess.
We object to this life you created. We do not accept you, my
parents, my grandparents, as creators of this world. We do not accept your
practices that ruin the environment, that kill millions of animals, and if not,
destroy their natural environment. Who granted you this power? You and your
ancestors arrogantly stole it, by believing - and you really did believe it -
that you were to create a world controlled by humans, a world were natural
resources are never enough, a world that will soon have to leave this planet if
you continue feeding your greed with your attempts for “progress”.
Nobody dares to speak up.
And they do not, because your work extends to creating representations of the
ideal. Representations in which everyone believes. You have created dreams,
hopes based on nothing more than paper, and quantified every value and every
moment. You have neglected the environment, but you have also neglected its
people. You are so concerned with money, that you are fuelling culture, and
predominantly media, design, and fashion, with standards; unattainable
standards of the “to be”. An idealized state that a human being can only attain
if he follows the prescribed lifestyle you have so skillfully created. Beautiful
people, beautiful lives, beautiful cities, but empty souls. And an environment
that’s biting back. The plan? To be educated, to be competitive, to lose all
contact with the environment, to consume, to feel frustrated that more is never
enough.
We rejects your beliefs.
We condemn your progress, and we are not going to accept the distorted
representations your culture is constantly spamming. We respect nature, and we
refrain from consuming the overly processed products that educated people
worked so hard for. We will not kill or exploit animals for you. Not for our
clothes, not for our food, not for warmth, not for furniture. We will not continue
destroying the environment, which nature has so generously shared with us all
these years. Our life-style is zero-waste. We will make our own clothes, our
own products. And we will be educated close to nature, learning from real life,
not just the books and typified material you provide. And finally, we will not
follow your neurotic need for reaching your fake ideals. We do not follow your
imposed standards of style; we denounce your fascism, we believe in diversity,
and we will support individual expression through one’s body, for which we claim ownership and which can never be detached from our identity.
We create,
but not to progress.
We create to live
to share and
to grow as
individuals!
