Vines

i feel like there is this plant which's stems slowly crawling up on me, detaining my moviments, but also consuming me. Slowly, on the limits of my being. Slowly, but steadily,ever lurking

If i look the other way, i can manage to perfectly ignore it. But eventually the feeling makes itself present again. Each day a new vine making its way

Dozens of them, each too weak to bother, all togethegr too strong to tear

But if i just look the other way...

My world is dying. we are going to burn. Climate disasters are already here. But they get worse every year. And the rich protect their houses, and the poor get swept away

Ah, the poor. Our world is so rich. And yet its concentrated more and more. The poor get poorer. We HAVE to look away. Gladly, there are many screens to keep us busy

But the internet is dead. Once time has become another currency, our screens have become another vine. AI generated people, AI generate art, people losing jobs to AI, It spreads in the internet. Even the poor try to crawl out of the slug by making slug content. Content, content, content, the next thing, 2 hours every day at the phone. But i simply *love* to see that show scene cutted and edited, with a background music so it doesnt get immediate infrigment strike...

But take away the screen and whats left? Work at work and work at home. I need to crawl away from this colonization of my body. Am i too lazy to chase my dreams or is capitalism too crushing to let me? Is this my fault our everyone else's? I tried many projects and they all fail. Do i even desserve to crawl out or the slug is where my lazy ass belong? Why is the coffe so expensive? I cant even stay were i am because rent has increased.

this is a particular vine that got confortable under my feet. It separates me from the very ground. I cant touch the floor. I cant stay put. Too poor for that.

What about the vines living in my stomach? We all eat microplastics. The brain has a plastic spoon, they say. We kill our would in so many diferent ways. And i wouldnt even call it greed. Its more like addiction. But thats a discussion for another time.

I dont watch movies or shows anymore. The are all behind a new subscription. On Amazon, i have to subscribe in order to *be able to pay* for a movie. On netfilix, i subscripe to watch adds. Its getting everywhere. Maximed profits appear everywhere because they can. Competition my ass: they all agree to the worst practices. Or havent you heard what happened to the lamps?

And yet capitalism is still one of the best things we ever done. Communism may be better but how can you trust? Propaganda has never been worst, you cant trust anyone but your own critical thinking. Political debate *feels* so much worse these days. Maybe its just as bad as it aways was. You only end up separating yourself from the others in a introspective resignation because what rules is the polarization law.

Thats why i call them vines. They are part of a living being. A living being that turns nothing into something. Light into fruit. Less than a billion humans into 8 billion humans in only about 300 years. Our species has never been stronger. And yet its only downhill from here. It gives you the fruit that you eat, but it will consume anything else.

We are so lonely. Work drifts us apart. The destruction of so much tradition such as patriarchy and cristianism has left a hollow space. Community has shattered and the internet is not enough to stich us back together. Alone, medicated and besieged by internet falsehoods, we drift apart.

There are ways to resist each one of the vines, but thats it. Resistence is not revolution. Maybe the system will refine itself instead of reaching the critical point thats required for revolution. Maybe the revolution comes. I wait.

Windows is forcing a upgrade to spy and collect data. A huge company that got comfortable. We *cant* get comfortable because something we took for granted has become a way to make more money. We used to have an app to go through out mobile files without ads. Now i have to watch one to access my data. Every day a new basic thing goes behind a paywall. Or is it the paywall that gets closer to us?. Ever closing, claustrophobic and invasive.

And then comes a Netflix (that bitch again) production that tackles many of these, so we dont have to think about them for ourselves. Big companies realised that there is money to be made on our feelings of helplessness under capitalism. they critic *themselves* for *us* while profiting.