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Underground eXperts United
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Presents...
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[ To Kill Time ] [ By The GNN ]
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TO KILL TIME
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by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu
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The industrial revolution spiced with common ignorance left mankind with an
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endless array of pointless occupations, most of them unintentionally forced
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into existence for the sake of the abstract thing called 'the public good'.
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Somewhere in this pile of ongoing progress towards nothing special, we
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find the individual, whom constantly tries to been seen and heard,
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appreciated and confirmed. But as no cogwheel is more important than any
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other in a complex machine, few are ever appreciated at all. This is not to
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say that the human 'individuality' has been unmasked as a fake, it is
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simply completely uninteresting given the way our world is constituted.
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Still, people need confirmation of some kind to be able to live. They
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need to be given priority, they want to be admired for being the kind of
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person they are, or, if the former is too boring, being 'someone' at all.
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Though humanity is not intelligent enough to avoid her own collective
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madness, she do possess one crucial skill that separates her from other
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creatures: the ability to pass on complicated information and concepts
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through language - to other people, to coming generations. No matter how
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many chains we dress a human being in, she will always be able to speak; the
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ability is hard-wired, unavoidable; and the only thing that can make
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humanity stop talking is - paradoxically - if we all agree (with the help of
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language) to do so.
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'Stop talking', however, need not imply that we merely avoid using our
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mouth for communication. We can 'stop talking' about the relevant questions,
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by transforming language, with language, into trivialities, making all
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important questions impossible to understand even for ourselves. And this we
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do every day. We do? you ask. Why would we do such a thing? There seems to
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be no rationale!
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Indeed, there is no rationale in a broader perspective, but given the way
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our world works, there sure is a rationale for the single individual.
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Recall, the individual is alienated in the machinery of pointless jobs, a
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cogwheel, disposable. She wants to be confirmed, perhaps not by the whole
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world, but at least from those in her direct vicinity.
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To fulfil this desire, mankind has invented an expression, a concept that
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serves the purpose of giving the individual her beloved attention. This
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expression is, in a broader aspect, disastrous for humanity, but is, on a
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narrow conception, excellent for the individual as it leads to attention and
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admiration. Of course, the expression is a fake, it relies on no truth, it
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is merely an attempt to indirectly justify oneself and one's way of living.
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"I have no time!"
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If freedom is the ultimate goal for humanity (the state of being able to
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do whatever one really wants), one sure cannot find any rationale for
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constantly fleeing to this expression. No time? No time, for what? How could
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someone be worthy of admiration, due to lack of time? That seems utterly
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ridiculous, on the border to insane. Do something, instead! But people in
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general say this all the time - I have no time, I have no time - sometimes
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when it is not even called for; they just have to say it. Why?
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The answer is agonizing, as it reveals a vicious regress of our modern
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way of living. We work, but we want to be free. Work is given priority over
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freedom. Not because people in general do not want to seek freedom, but
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because they dare not. They are afraid to use their short period of time on
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earth striving for the truly good and free life. Because, as they look
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around they see all other people working; working, with the pointless
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occupations we call the fruits of the industrial revolution. While working,
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man is alone and disposable, crying for attention. Nevertheless, standing
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out of the crowd is even worse, seeking the really good life is lonely work,
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a long and hard trek that few dare to embark. How much better is it not then
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to stay put, work until you die, being given a little piece of admiration
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with the help of the expression "I have no time! I work so much!"
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I have met people whom have given up their favourite things to do in life
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- hobbies, family, knowledge, wit, charm, everything - partly for the sake
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of doing work, mainly for the sake of being able to proudly state "Oh, I
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have no time", begging for some kind of admiration. "I have no time to be
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free, I must work. This is my place in this world, to work. I have no time.
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I confess, cry for me: I want to be free, but I have no time. Pity me,
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admire me for my strength of being able to live in this hell: I have no
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time, no time at all!"
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Yet, all know they are not schackled to their work. They can break free
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any minute. But this must be denied with the help of the expression, or with
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lame entailing excuses as "I must pay the rent", "I must buy food", "I must
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pay other salaries", or (the most commonly used one) "this is how the hard
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reality is constituted"? Why? Why not state the obvious truth instead?
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"I lack the sufficent motivation to do anything else."
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Why must this truth be denied?
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The answer is simple. If the expression "I have no time" was not taken
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completely seriously, it would fall flat to the ground and be replaced with
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laughter: "Look at that fool who dare not leave his work for the good life!
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Look at him! He claims that he 'have no time'! Who the fuck believes that?
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We all know that he merely lacks the motivation necessary to stand up and
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walk straight!"
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Actions have consequences, and the invention of the expression in
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question will be no exception. Due to the excessive misuse, the expression
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will slowly initialise itself into the human ethos so that one day the
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chains will not be possible to break, not even in principle. Since those who
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use the expression in their daily lives must deceive themselves into the
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belief that it is a perfectly true statement, the coming generations will
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need no such deception; they will simply take it for granted, as they learn
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that the former generation did.
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Thus, the expression will sooner or later transmute from a bold lie into
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a perfectly true statement: humanity will have no time, and this will be
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admirable. Those who dare to claim the opposite, or wish for some kind of
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free time, will be dismissed as 'lazy', 'bohemians' or 'wishful thinkers'.
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That day, some day, will be the end of freedom, and those responsible for
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that dystopia will be the common people of today who began violating the
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expression as a mean for excusing their own lack of motivation.
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What the future generations will not be able to see (as they will be too
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busy boasting about their lack of time) is that the interesting feature of
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all this is that it - as usual - took no devilish conspiracy to chain
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humanity, merely ourselves and our collective madness.
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uXu #432 Underground eXperts United 1998 uXu #432
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Call THE YOUNG GODS -> +351-1XX-XXXXX
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