Are We Citizens or Just Products?
Look around you. Really look. Does it feel like we are living in a reality, or a script?
We often fear a dystopia where soldiers march in the streets and force us into cages. But the modern dystopia is far more subtle and terrifying. It is a world where the prison bars are made of comfort, conformity, and an endless stream of digital noise. We are witnessing the death of the individual, not by execution, but by "optimization."
We have traded our ability to think critically for the dopamine hit of short-form content. Our brains are being fed a diet of digital junk food—15-second videos that erode our attention spans and kill our nuance.
We no longer analyze; we react. We have become a society on autopilot, scrolling through life with glazed eyes, unable to digest complex thoughts because we have been trained to demand instant gratification. We aren't thinking; we are downloading opinions.
Society—our modern "Big Brother"—hands us a blueprint for life. Go to this school, buy this car, hate this enemy, support this war. The tragedy is that the most "successful" among us are often just the best at following orders.
They chase dreams that aren't their own, achieving a status that feels hollow because it was manufactured by a system designed to create workers, not thinkers. They become the "cool humans," oblivious to the fact that they are merely actors reading lines written by an invisible director.
Perhaps the most horrifying symptom of this sleepwalking society is our loss of moral clarity. We have been conditioned to believe that morality is determined by authority, not humanity.
Murder is a crime if an individual does it, but it becomes "strategy" or "necessary" when done by the state. We watch mass suffering and genocide unfold on our screens, but because the "higher-ups" frame it as acceptable, the majority nods along. We have outsourced our conscience to power-hungry leaders, accepting atrocities as long as they are packaged correctly by the media.
We are drowning in information but starving for truth. The manipulation of information is so sophisticated that reality itself has become subjective.
Most people do not fact-check; they consume what is fed to their algorithmic feed and accept it as gospel. To doubt requires effort, and in a world of exhausted, autopilot robots, effort is the enemy.
Ultimately, this is not an accident. It is a business model. A population that thinks deeply, questions authority, and values truth is dangerous to the status quo. A population that is distracted, divided, and dull is profitable.
We are being molded into products—predictable, controllable, and uniform.
The question is no longer "Is the world controlled?"
The question is: Do you still have enough of a mind left to realize it?
OR HAVE YOU ALREADY ACCEPTED THE UPDATE?