Finished Alien: Earth tonight. Good. The last two episodes approach great. I was very pleased with how the first season concluded.

During a break in the second-to-last episode, an advertisement for a new series appeared. About some "rich and powerful family" and the intrigue and power plays they engage in to gain power or take it away from others.

The system wants us to envy people who are rich and powerful. They want us to crave status and privilege. It maintains the hierarchy, of which you are almost certainly on the bottom. 

And so they put this crap in front of us, expecting us to eat it up, which, let's face it, millions of you craven sheep are going to do.

Notice how few modern-day stories deal with working-class folks struggling to survive, or poor rebels doing everything they can to bring down the system, or modern-day guerillas fighting to end corporations? They don't exist for a reason.

Until the human species gives up its toxic, dysfunctional need for status, we will get nowhere near the stars. In fact, we will be lucky to celebrate January 1, 2100.

Wake the fuck up already.

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