A Situation of Infiltration

Governments around the world aim at controlling their citizen’s behaviour, finances, and freedom of thought/speech/and expression. They infiltrate the inner works of institutions, systems, and even initiatives in order to oppress the sound and freedom of the peoples. They cripple the backs of the working class and reward the rich without holding themselves accountable for the devastation that is poverty. The strategies that are used by governmental figures are not used in order to sustain or assist the people, but rather in order to create an illusion of perfection while exploiting those who are unable to fight back. What this system fails to recognize is that if the same people they are oppressing are given empowerment then they will eventually fight back and bring this tactic of systematic oppression down. There is no such thing as a ‘government’ per say, but rather a mafia of elected people who govern the state as they please.

What the people do not realize is that governmental propaganda is not just projected on the television screen or the daily newspapers, but is also methodically and subliminally engraved into our minds by institutions such as schools, universities, hospitals, libraries, and many others. These subliminal messages are the reason for illnesses such as racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia, transphobia, and the concept that everything should fit a certain status-quo. As Foucault said, “(Institutions) can both exert power and act as instruments of power”. Institutions have the capacity to establish the relationships of power and to effect individuals within themselves.

Everything that is part of our daily lives is part of a mainstream and heteronormative ideology that is promoted and maintained in an attempt to silence anyone who dares to step out of the titanium box that is created for us ever since we were born. Well we are stepping out. Are you on the train? Or waiting at the station?