Fatigue

It was like the flip of a coin or a flip of a switch, until everything we knew or thought we knew was upended and dismantled, right down to our own humanity. COVID

And it wasn't the first time. It was just the first time I had been affected or was it effected or infected? Either way, that was the year the world changed.

Fatigue became palpable, primal. It became an excuse to behave like animals. Fighting erupted like wildfire.

Everywhere you turned, neighbor was fighting neighbor, strangers turning on strangers over menial things. The news was filled with terror and horror in our streets. Life had become a war zone.

All systems, including our own autoimmune, began to look inward, attacking and taking at will, causing chronic inflammation and irreparable damage. Targeting the weak to sustain the strong, taking us right back to our animal instincts. Kill or be killed, survival of the fittest, only the cunning remain to procreate. Building a future that ensures strength and stability.

But has it?

Like the immune system, we have lost tolerance for one another, causing us to lose sight and fail to distinguish self from foreign invaders, leading to self-reactive antibodies and T-cells. Total destruction of self and society as we once knew it. The exact cause is unknown, but a combination of genetic predisposition and environmental triggers (e.g., infections, chemicals, stress) is suspected, so they tell us.

Do you believe the rumors? Are the whispers feeding in your mind? Conspiracy has become the new passenger along for the ride.

Could it have been planned? Is it possible that the people we trusted most with the delicate pieces of our lives, scheming against us for a monetary gain?

We push those thoughts down and do our best to fight the good fight, still living in a time we barely recognize. Law and order today mimics the episodes that we watch on our tvs. It is a myth...

The system created to keep us equal and accountable is now being used against us, keeping us cranking, like cogs in the machine. the only goal is to promote the wellness of the machine itself. Once seen as a tool to better our existence now deems itself master and we are its subjects.

AI controlling the narrative, keeping us captured in its web of our own knowledge. The very same knowledge we fed it to better ourselves, now being used to contain us. Keeping us in the dark, only sharing what it deems necessary to prevent an uprising. Treating us with newer phones and devices that steal our attention and softens the mind. Using our very words against us to obtain dominance.

We googled our symptoms and desires, our needs and failures into a void that once suggested remedies and solutions, but now are used to belittle and weaken us. We have become so dependent that we can no longer communicate without aggravation and violence.

We don't sleep because we are so tied to our phones and tvs. So captivated by our social media presence that we are no longer present, beyond restless and wild, leaving us susceptible to fall for anything.

The system is broken, rigged and ready to topple. Until and unless we remember that WE, the little guy, are the glue, we are the reason and we are the only ones that are going to save us.

We are on our own.

Sought out only to perpetuate the motion of the beast.

Take your humanity back. Be the friend you want from another, be the solution.

Sure AI seems innocent enough but so does a lion sleeping in the sun. Take the blinder off my friends, the enemy is already here living amongst us, and we invited them in.