Join the new world

I know this might be crap but it has meant a lot to me over the past couple of months, each paragraph comes from one day in which I felt that writing my opinions on these topics helped me consolidate my own ideals and my own perception of the world. It has been an entertaining hobby to take up and I hope to develop it further. It would mean a lot to me if you could read it fully through and give me your opinions on each idea and how I could better develop it.

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The Shark Analogy

Imagine you are in a shark tank. You were born in this shark tank, your parents were born in this shark tank and, as they did, you will probably die in it too. You feel a sense of curiosity at the idea of getting out though. Everyone around you would ask the shark if getting out is a best option due to the undeniable fact that the shark knows more about the tank than you and, therefore, has more experience about the environment that he has naturally succeeded in. However, obviously, the shark just wants you to stay in the tank so he can eat you, so he will feed you lies to keep you in the tank for as long as possible instead of telling you the truth which is that you are going to have a better and longer lifespan outside the tank.

Now imagine that the shark is telling you about the “idiot-scum” who tried to get out of the “natural” environment for humans, but slipped off the ladder and fell back in and got eaten for their “insolence”. Would you follow the sharks advice or would you try to climb the ladder to what you knew would be a better world?

You take the sharks advice in which you agree not to think of such stupid “radical” ideas. A few weeks later, the shark starts adding more water to the tank to make his life better this, however, reduces the chances that you will survive and means that you have to go up more frequently to the surface for oxygen. The shark knows that you are too scared to do anything about it and this is why he doesn't care about the quality of your life nor the extreme pain you have to go through to hold your breath for so long.

Over the next month, your leader sees you are discontent with your life and so he shows you other tanks where the shark has already eaten the human and you start feeling content about how "lucky" you have it. What your shark doesn't tell you is that both, the shark in your tank and the one with the dead human in it, are brothers and that one had decided to see how far he could push his human before the human died. Your shark decided to keep you on the verge of death and pretend that the other shark is some kind of evil exploiter but he had just learnt how far he could push you without killing you from his brother

After a while, the shark drops another human in the tank and says that that human is more likely to be killed first, so you feel you are better than him and that that human is weak and that it is his fault for being in that situation in the first place. Every now and then the shark drops another human in and asks you to vote on who gets eaten. You say the other human and the shark eats that person giving you a feeling that the shark cares about you and that this system is one that benefits you and, thus, society in general. Until one day you are the last human in the tank and the shark starts getting hungry...

You remember the emotions of the deceased how some criticised the shark, how some were ignorant of the whole event and how some were upset that the shark betrayed them but yet forgave the shark. However compared to the other humans, you are cunning and you offer the shark some of your food as a substitute for your life. Suddenly he is taking food off of you on a weekly basis in return for devices that connect you with humans in other tanks that have worse lives than yours. These humans tell you how bad it is in their tank and how they want to move to yours. You feel happy at this new found patriotism you have acquired and due to this, you celebrate the shark like a religion for the years that the shark has protected and saved you from those who had wished to “force” you to live outside the tank, and in return the shark gives you inventions that he had made; for a small fee of course. Some of these inventions include😛 a motorised transport that you could use to move between tanks even if though you were forced to stay in your old tank. He also gives you a beach volleyball and bets you that you will lose, of course you never profit but you are entertained at the mere atmosphere of the competition.

The shark shows you the worst tanks that humans are forced to live in and tells you that these “slumdogs” are just unfortunate to be in that situation. The shark is smart enough to ignore the fact that it was due to the sharks great grandparents violently hitting their humans against the tank’s sides. You are filled with sympathy and guilt of ever feeling hatred for your shark, so you decide to not eat that day and give the food to the shark. Every year the shark asks for donations but the unfortunate human’s tank never changes.

The shark then tells you how the unfortunate “slumdogs” are still alive due to their belief in a sky human who helps those who believe in him. The shark starts telling you lies about "fanatics" who hurt other humans and you decide 'under your own free will' that this religion stuff is false. You feel like you are better than those who believe, but you forget that the sharks have always controlled the humans and that the only way this religion spread was by the sharks idea that he can get more food from the humans. Although the sky-human may have came from a brilliant individual, it has been twisted to fit the sharks personal needs that most of it has been falsified.

One day, in your tank, you find a floating bottle on the surface of the water. You open it and examine carefully. The contents are made from an old fashioned lead pencil and it seems to be made out of brownish paper. It is a picture of a cement house with smoke billowing from the chimney, it must be a childs drawing you say to yourself. Two blobs that seem to be holding hands are on the inside of the window. You also notice the sun has a smile and you chuckle. These people must be from the past as their transport is probably 50 years behind yours and they are wearing clothes that resemble that of a scarecrow. You laugh hysterically at the idea that this is a true depiction of life in modern days. How can they be happy being so technologically behind us? How can they live without the mile-high tanks and the volleyballs?
Your leader steals the picture off of you and laughs. You ask him about it and he tells you how the idiots who are able to leave the tank live a life of corruption and poverty. He tells you how they tried to build a utopian society but failed due to natural selection, and that they are now forced to live in the pain of their past failures. He swims away chuckling to himself. You stare one last time at the picture and wonder, how can anyone draw this picture and mean it. You finally decide to throw it away on the idea that these people are obviously less-technologically savvy and therefore do not know what true happiness is.