We Are Merely Pawns In The Larger Scheme of The Powers of the World

Quoting From the famous play by Shakespeare "As You Like It"

Act II, Scene 7 features one of Shakespeare's greatest monologues, which begins:

"All the world's a stage
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages..."

This famous soliloquy is spoken by the melancholy Jaques. Comparing life to a play, it goes on to catalogue the seven stages of man's life: infant, school-boy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon, and second childhood, "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_You_Like_It

I just want to say that we could just be the helpless pawns of the powerful who control us in this world. The large amounts of extent that they are able to influence our thoughts, actions, behaviours and also economic behaviour.

In this postmodern society that we exist in, where television and constructed images pervades our lifestyle, all the world's a computerised stage. Remediation of images, that copies image from another image that eliminates the idea of which source that the image originates from (or simply that this images are merely constructed according to the point of view of those in power), homogenises society, making them easier to control by the powerful. As similar to Agent Smith in Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions, the copying of Smiths onto everyone else in the Matrix world, homogenises every thoughts of the humans plugged into the Matrix, making them conform to the overall ideological system of the dominant powers or the powerful at play.

Take for example beauty ads, it comes to show woman that they must beautify themselves, and be slim and sexy, in order to be able to exist in our society. Those woman that deviates from this rule, will be either not be looked at with equal respect by others, or else, they will become a social outcast. This media constructed image of the ideal woman, is actually ideologically, because firstly, it is considered a marketing ploy to promote beauty products, in order to earn money for capitalism when woman buys the products, and secondly it may actually be used as gratification for guys. The male gaze which is a concept that woman are beautiful just to satisfy the innate desires of men. Again, this is a construction imposed on woman from the overaching perspectives by the powers( patriarchical) existing in our society. A construction is created in order to constrain and restrain women, in order to make them subordinate in relation to the more powerful people who are in charge of our society, which determines their overall social conduct. This is also an overarching construction, because women plays into it, not aware that it is actually a "prison" for them.


Below is some interesting read that I found at the website:

http://www.avolites.org.uk/jokes/male-rules.htm
http://www.kappa-psi.org/webmaster/mensrules.htm

Rules from the male side (No offence intended):

GIRLS OUT THERE.. PLS READ THIS!
We always hear "the rules" from the female side.
Now here are the Rules from the male side.
These are our rules: - THEY ARE ALLTHE "ONE" GOLDEN RULES...

1. Br*asts are for looking at and that is why we doit. (a,*,i,o,u)Don't try to change that.

2. Learn to work the toilet seat. You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down. We need it up, you need itdown. You don't hear us complaining about youleaving it down.

3. Saturday = sports. It's like the full moon or thechanging of the tides. Let it be.

4. Shopping is NOT a sport. And no, we are nevergoing to think of it that way.

5. Crying is blackmail.

6. Ask for what you want. Let us be clear on thisone: Subtle hints do not work! Strong hints do notwork! Obvious hints do not work! Just say it!

7. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers ..to almost every question.

8. Come to us with a problem only if you want helpsolving it. That's wha we do. Sympathy is whatyour girlfriends are for.

9. A headache that lasts for 17 months is a problem. See a doctor.

10. Anything we said 6 months ago isinadmissible in an argument. In fact, all commentsbecome null and void after 7 days.

11. If you think you're fat, you probably are. Don'task us.

12. If something we said can be interpreted twoways, and if one of the ways makes you sad orangry, we meant the other one.

13. You can either ask us to do something or tellus how you want it done. Not both. If you alreadyknow best how to do it, just do it yourself.

14. Whenever possible, please say whatever youhave to.. say during commercials.

15. Christopher Columbus did not need directionsand neither do we.

16. ALL men see in only 16 colours, like Windows default settings. Peach, for example, is a fruit, nota colour. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no ideawhat Mauve is.

17. If it itces, it will be scratched. We do that.IBS=Itchy Balls Syndrome is common among allmales. With the exception of batty boys cos it'suncool haha

18. If we ask what is wrong and you say "nothing,"we will act like nothing's wrong. We know you arelying, but it is just not worth the hassle.

19. If you ask a question you don't want an answerto, expect an answer you don't want to hear <--yeah! don't get pissed when you asked for theanswer

20. When we have to go somewhere, absolutelyanything you wear is fine. Really.

21. Don't ask us what we're thinking about unlessyou are prepared to discuss such topics as Sex,Sport, or Cars.

22. You have enough clothes.

23. You have too many shoes.

24. I am in shape. Round is a shape.

Thank you for reading this