Sleep by Ken Magalnik

5 million years ago, on a small planet, in a muddy pool, several amino

acids combined to create the first life form.

Since then that form has divided, multiplied, mutated, and evolved over

the course of millennia, until finally becoming what is now known as the

human race, which was no small accomplishment, since it was the first life

to posses the reasoning and organizational capabilities to build something

that would outlive us.

Over the years we learned how to talk and write. We have invented wheels,

boats, machinery, assembly lines, electricity and computers. We have explored

the outer reaches of space, and the depth of the oceans.

All those accomplishments, however, did not come without a price. the

social links, which combined for the effort, were becoming more and more

complex. governments had to be created and toppled, wars fought, and innocent

people killed.

But we have achieved the one thing that truly separates us from all other

life forms. we have secured our existence, and stopped being a subject to

the laws of evolution.

That too came with a price. The same social links which have aided us

in our progress are now threatening to bring us down. It stands to reason

that a truly safe existence is a predictable one, where all dangers can

be known, and prevented ahead of time.

Thus each one of us has to live in an exact routine endlessly repeating

each task. sleep, work, lunch, work, TV, dinner, TV, sleep. even the biggest

changes in our lives are nothing more that substituting one routine for

another.

In our brave new world we hire people to lie for us and

we call it justice, we hide things from each other and call it security,

we give up one right after another and all for what? just so we can sleep

a little better at night?

We have come the point, when we are reluctant to continue in our advances,

because the future brings with it insecurity. we have created a monster

of a world where even our thoughts are being guided into specific channels,

a world where breaking the law is worse than a sin. the apparatus which

rules us has become so complex, that it cannot even control itself. Institutions

that possess great power, are springing left and right, yet there is really

no one is in control of that power. We have invented a monetary system,

and most of us have given up our souls for the almighty dollar.

How long is it before we become mindless machines, before we abandon

individuality, before we say:

war is peace,

love is hate,

ignorance is freedom

and all that so we can sleep better?

well sleep, world, sleep. you earned it