Posted by mobile phone:
I’m sitting in my local movie theater waiting to see a movie. Beside me is a ten foot wide, eight foot tall advertisement for the movie “Saw V”. A good friend often points out that in order to live in our perverted society, we must block out most of the suffering and day-to-day “normalcy” of life. It is only when something shakes us from our hypnoctic slumber do we begin to see how perverted the world we live in really is. I don’t often notice most of the horrible things that are considered “normal” in our society - I’ve learned to block most of them out.

The Saw series is different. I get sick to my stomach every time I see an ad for the new film or hear a reference to it. A month and a half ago a schoolmate of mine, Kevin, was brutally murdered in Chelsea, NY. His unremorseful killer watched the movie Saw before leaving Kevin’s apartment.

That’s how fucked up our system is. It fucks us all up, feeds us perverted propaganda, pushed us all over the edge, and then does’t provide us with the healthcare we need to keep us all sane members of society. And it takes a death - or some other powerful shift in consciousness - to see how every aspect of our institutions and social relations is designed to maintain the death system.