Dark Room

There was a time when your memories were saved on Fujifilm and Kodak, the memories of those richer than you were saved on the same Fujifilm and Kodak and the memories of those poorer than you were saved on the same Fujifilm and Kodak. Now the quality of memories depends on the cost of smartphone you own. You own an iPhone, your memories will be shiny and great, you own a cheap Chinese phone, your memories are fucked forever, and this is how you lock people in their social strata forever. Personally for me, it doesn’t matter if I get locked in my social strata or even get demoted if I’m happy, but the intent of those who are orchestrating our lives matters and you can see that there is stratification even in usage of apps, poor use a particular mobile app and the more privileged a particular mobile app. I miss photography on film though and I realise that there was a bit of equality in the world until film photography was there even until there were Nokia mobile phones. Are we living in a Black Mirror episode? We definitely are. I have realised it and soon other people would realise it too. If social stratification and preventing people from social mobility was the issue then there was no need of destroying the folk and indigenous culture, but as I matured I realised that preventing social mobility of people is a goal which has long been achieved. Now what is going on is the destruction of every thing aesthetic and happy in the lower classes, depriving them of happiness and aesthetics while they struggle for their day to day survival. What a beautiful country, isn’t it? The fun part, anyone who opposes this is branded a communist or something of this sort. I’m definitely not a communist and I don’t have interest in politics at all, I just want to do my work, earn money and chill but I realise that asking for basic dignity of life in this country amounts to communism while all the aesthetics of regional and folk cultures have been destroyed saving the tokens that can be displayed to whites in five star hotels when they come to visit the country. You see the content on OTT these days. Police procedurals, some shitty local mafia kind of crime drama and other cheap shit. Police procedural shows in this country are particularly funny to me especially after getting enlightened about the neuropsychological nature of control in this country because I have realised that no one who is truly guilty ever really gets punished in this country. The sad part here is not that all of this is happening, but that all of what is happening is a hundred percent intentional because the control is absolute.