COVID-19 exposes true reality

Oct 10, 2020 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

Kaieteur News – Hyper-reality is an image or simulation, or an aggregate of images and simulations, that either distorts the reality it purports to depict or does not in fact depict anything with a real existence at all, but which nonetheless comes to constitute reality. 2020 is the year when many people are waking up to the fact that the entire world is not based on justice and equality or that all people are equal while some people are worth more than others because they are essential. Most of reality accepted by the masses is a hyper-reality or an ideal. COVID-19 exposed an unjust world and the consequences of inequalities. When people had their jobs and could party, socialize and engage in sports, movie theatre, they accepted that the world is fair and beautiful because their reality is filled with entertainment which is only a pleasant distraction from reality. Whether capitalism, socialism or communism, the rules are made in favour of the ruling elites.
The first illusion that was shattered globally is that police exist to protect and serve the general public. The global protest against police brutality is an indication that the world is realizing that police and other security forces are at the behest of the top 10 percent of the society who are usually white or almost white. Black lives matter is a subset of poor people’s life matter. Police do not usually interfere with a person that can hire a high power lawyer and have resources to fight back. Blacks globally are usually the masses of people at the bottom of the social hierarchy. Racism is a justification that some people deserve to be poor and powerless. The average person in the Caribbean blames the gang members and other criminals for the erosion of their quality of life but no one was born bad. Who are the people who have the most control over our societies? …The rich and powerful and their political collaborators. According to B.F. Skinner, “Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. The ideal of behaviourism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behaviour that benefits everyone.” Why do thousands of people have to depend on government assistance to survive while a few are living lavishly? It is not because they work harder or are smarter, it is because they are connected.
Researchers in the US found that they could push people to the right by distracting them, putting them under pressure or simply telling them not to think too hard. Participants who were asked to deliberate more deeply, in contrast, shifted their political thinking to the left. Similar effects have been seen with the three core components of conservative ideology: preference for the status quo, acceptance of hierarchy and belief in personal responsibility. All three, the researchers say, come naturally to the human mind. Left wing politics have become right wing in disguised because both represent the interest of big business.
Socialism and capitalism are different wings of the same bird. China is an allegedly communist country that dominates the world economically because both systems are compatible. Ordinary people are the majority but do not have control of their own lives. They work for someone else, they are guided by the dominant culture, through leaders and so on, because they live in a simulation that teaches them that the power is with government and business tycoon. That is true only if they comply. If they resist in masses no commerce can happen. “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” ― Joe Klaas, Twelve Steps to Happiness

Brian E. Plummer

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