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- [ Escape Macabre, The ] [ By The GNN ]
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- ESCAPE MACABRE, THE
- by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu
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- "lonely eyes, lonely face
- I thought that I
- was all there was to be"
- (Waits, Tom)
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- What we cannot accomplish in our real lives, we live out in fake worlds.
- Worlds, created by others or by our selves. Movies, music, books, alcohol,
- drugs. They may all help us to escape from our boring selves and turn us
- into something extra. Fantasy and imagination, for those who are gifted
- with that special feature. No man would stand reality as it really is
- forever. We call it entertainment, but in the end it is a result of
- frustration. It is the escape macabre for creatures who are painfully
- aware of their situation. It is a human disease.
- We want so much we can never have, and that hurts. Since we only have a
- brief moment in this world, we know that it would be a waste to do nothing
- at all. But there is no point in just doing anything, we must do something
- special. What is this thing called 'special'? Is it necessary the search
- for affection from other people, the hunt for power and profit? Perhaps.
- However, it seems as if they are only instruments for the real goal;
- satisfaction. The feeling that one have actually done this special
- something in the short moment of consciousness. The search becomes more
- complicated as we realize that there are no clear rules of what is extra,
- something special. Time flies, we have not got the time to find that out.
- We lean back on what we regard as other people's desires. We try to analyse
- what others believe is good and evil, right or wrong. Then we try to live
- by their rules.
- We live in a paradox, because we ought to be more aware of what we as
- individuals want to do than what other people wants us to do. We have more
- contact with our own sensations than others. But we do not dare to take
- the risk to trust ourselves. Maybe we have desires that no one else has.
- If we live by our own intuitions there might be a chance that they will not
- be accepted by the majority. If our life style is not accepted - instead
- rejected - by the population, we will never receive any affection, nor
- satisfaction. Hence, we play by the rules of other people and keep our
- dreams to the fake worlds.
- It is the escape macabre, because almost everybody live like this. We
- watch the goals of other people and make them our own. Even if we hate the
- goals, the idea of life being mere work, we do not dare to stand out of the
- crowd. We do not fancy people who are not like ourselves and we know that
- other people think the same. Therefor, we conform and join the crowd, the
- majority, the population.
- In front of a movie, a word processor or a bottle of whiskey it is
- different. There we can live in worlds that do not exist, but appeals to
- us. There, we will escape the hard reality for a moment and spend some
- time in a better world. In the real world we may not create much, but as
- soon as we rush away to dream land we will become kings and queens.
- "You shall not try to be someone else," people say. "You should always
- strive to be yourself."
- Be yourself - how is that possible? How come that people who are
- regarded as 'people who are themselves' are admired? When we try to be
- 'ourselves', we hate it. We hate the little fool that is the real person
- inside us. It is much better to conform again, try to find out what
- other people think is a great person and live by their rules. That fails
- too, we feel like clowns who participate in a show. We cannot play the role
- as we want to, and in the end we believe that we look like complete idiots.
- We go home and wonder how to play the role better. We watch movies to find
- out, we write stories to create perfect persons and we drink alcohol to
- relax and forget. We admire the one who we believe is him- or herself,
- simply because they have something we believe that we have not.
- We are victims of the majority, we are a part of the majority, hence we
- are victims of ourselves. Sooner or later we die, and perhaps we have
- succeeded in the task of soften our own pain. We live and die like
- dreamers. Those who we regard as successful people do not fancy their
- situation more than we do. No one ever reach the complete satisfaction.
- We need the escape macabre. It does not matter if we are young and
- foolish or grown and mature. If it was not available we would fade away,
- like shadows in the evening. The escape macabre is our own personal dawn.
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