Wayseer Manifesto

This video and initiative was shared with me yesterday. I had already seen it a few months back, and I thought it was a nice perspective, but left it soon after again because it seemed a little too emotional for me. Normally I like the idea that there are many people who see society as miscalculated and counter-productive, but the way people conduct themselves these days I have a hard time believing that.

What I do like about this perspective though, is that it shines some hope on a spot that needs it. The pocket of society that was later occupied by outraged protesters. They called themselves the 99% and while that is merely a symbol, it does reflect some very interesting ideas, among those the perspective that you can actually fight for rights people do not know or understand.

Very Matrix indeed. If you recall the movie, you will probably think about special effects, corny dialogue and slow-motion fight scenes. But if you understood the plot, if you saw what the Wachowski brothers probably could have meant. Then you will see the metaphor in this video. You will recognise that the plot is what carried this movie. The masses swallowed the movie for what it did visually, but philosophically this movie is relevant to discuss because of how it analyses layers of society.
That it would be possible for the masses to live sheepish lives against their own natural interests because they have been cultivated to accept such norms. Is that not interesting? Is it not brilliant to conceptualise such massive deciet and societal manipulation? They managed to make that movie one of the most remarked action movies of all time.

Like the main character in the movie, and a Wayseer such as the song talks about, you probably have also experienced the time stop scene at some point in your life. You suddenly felt different and alienated from everyone else, because the truth was apparent to you and you alone. It can be as tiny as seeing someone eat something commonly regarded as healthy, when you know that it really is not, that sparks this thought that you have begun to see more truth that other. Or at least percieve the world differently. You have started to think unlike a grain of sand in the desert. Unlike a fish in the sea. Perhaps you are swimming against the current already. But the fact is that this is a new world for you. And new can be scary.

So this is why I like this video, for even through all its cheerful ignorance towards the harsher reality of actual activism and social therapy, it does light a torch and attempts to lead on anyway.