Avatar, Look What You’ve Done

One might argue that The Great Blinding Of Humanity began on the 18th of December in the year 2009. The release of James Cameron’s Avatar grabbed the western world by it’s balls… it’s eye-balls that is. The visually stimulating film was a must-see by everyone. Children and elder alike, the audience sat in the theater with their visually enhancing 3-Dimensional ocular aids that would open a portal into a fictional universe full of humanly unreachable realities… a fantasy land about a distant planet that was abundant with powerful and beautiful life that lived in a magical symbiotic balance…. something that could only exist in the imagination of humans!

 

But James brought this fantasy to a 3 dimensional reality that you could visit temporarily. You would begin with the attitude that you have now, that of an arogant destructive naive human just doing your job in life… just trying to do right in your world. You then voyage to this magic land where being submersed in the fabricated notion of a spiritual balance of life and death begins to slowly shed the realities of your world. Your repressed human instincts from a time long forgotten start to resurface to the depths of your subconscious, just enough to pretend to feel that there is a connection between all life on a planet and even the planet itself (and even beyond, but Avatar wasn’t really an attempt to get you to reconnect with the Universe…). The journey then shatters any positive affirmations that it has created as evil humanity (you) destroys the magic, destroys the spirit, destroys this new universe that you have been brought into. And then the good guys kinda win somehow, the guy gets the girl, etc. etc. The movie ends, the kid at the door takes your optic portals and you go home to your real world to continue doing your job in life.

 

Not understanding the emotions that were awakened but still remaining deep in the subconscious, the audience was left confused. As far from spiritual awakening as everyone still was, the tiny taste of it was enough to awe people, but it was unkown why… it couldnt’ be the storyline as it a simple and predictable one… it couldn’t be the special effects because they were as flashy as any other shiny movie being made at that time… It must be the 3-D glasses…

 

As if it was all planned out, 3-D televisions were instantly on sale for incredible amounts of money. Not yet were there even stations broadcasting in 3D, and Avatar (keep in mind was the only movie in 3D) wasn’t even released to home audiences, but the 3D fad was already in motion. More and more movies were released in 3D, but as none of them even ever so slightly played with the spiritual link to the universe that Avatar somehow did , the audience never experienced the same reaction as with Avatar, and that feeling of spiritual connection was soon forgotten. Again.

But the wealthy continued to try to fill this spiritual vancancy the only way they knew how to and soon the very expensive 3D glasses for very expensive 3D television became a status symbol. As soon as the first pair made their way up and down the catwalk seductively resting on the tip of a restructured nose of some sickly thin and pale, near naked adolescent girl, everything changed. If you wore 3D glasses it meant that you were rich and cool. And it didn’t take long for advertisment companies to have their high end ads being displayed in 3D. There were 3D posters, 3D billboards and 3D signs everywhere. Restaurants and pubs would feature the sports games in 3D (which eventually eliminated going to the game altogether and soon games had no live audience and the arenas became studios… which really made one wonder if they were scripted as much as the other shows filmed at the same studio… well, actually no one really wondered that. Or at least no one really cared). Even clothing started to have designs woven into them that could only be seen properly with the 3D googles on (of course the battery pack that powered the 3D designs was well know to cause cancer and was usually sewn in somewhere near one’s gentilia, but that never slowed the production and sales of them… I mean, it was no worse than the brain cancer caused by the cell phones or the rectal cancer caused by all the food preservatives… the sickest part of it all is that eventually it became a status symbol as to what kind of cancer you would die of… anyone can get lung cancer, but if your cancer was caused by 3D clothing then people really paid you some attention!).

 

Now the rich and cool would walk around seeing a whole new 3D world that never really existed before (but if one really thought about it, it all existed before… the same expensive cloths, the same brainwashing ads, the same sports, the same movies… but no one really thought about it at all) and the poor (the majority) would see a blurry world not knowing what they were missing. The lower class would then be pit against each other for this much better position in society where they would be able to afford to see the new shiny world and be done with their old blurry one.

 

The violent thefts increased and became more violent despite the increase of their punishment.  It soon became very dangerous to expose one’s state of the art, name brand glasses, but that is when implants became all the rage.

 

“… while we’re in there, we’ll give you a 50% discount if you would like the auricular upgrade!”

 

And with the 3D implants that would allow one to see the plain and drab world in a dazzling 3 dimensions, one could get the upgrade to hear inaudible sounds. So the rich and cool could walk amongst the poor and lame undetected except from others of their social stature. The new acoustic range of the upper class allowed for communicating in secret which created a social network shared only by the worthy and wealthy.

 

The rift between the upper and lower classes increased. As technology advanced, the implants did become cheaper and more common, but new technologies for the rich were invented too. Soon infrared spectrums were seen and utilized, and transmitting devices were fused to the brain to allow for telepathic-like communication. The paths from the eyes and ears to the brain became exercised less and less, and after many generations they became abandoned conduits…

 

… leaving humankind completely blind.

 

One day I hope to remove these 3D glasses to no longer be blinded by this shiny fabricated world of ours and someday return to reality. Maybe you’ll take yours off too and join me…

 
 
 

by DJ Mikey Bones on Jan.14, 2012