The /'m?n&l-"og, Part I Kid around, kid around. It makes them feel good, we're all pals. We're prisoners, they're the guards, but it's all in good fun, you see? Here's the games. Games vegitize you. If you play the games, you're voluntarily taking a tranquilizer. What'd they give you Thorazine. How much you ask? Learn your drugs -- know your doses. A telephone call? That's communication with the outside world! The Interjection norms discretion. Hey, if alla these nuts could just make phone calls, it could spread. Insanity oozing through telephone cables, oozing into the ears of all those poor sane people, infecting them! Whackos everywhere! A plague of madness. In fact, very few of us here are actually mentally ill. I'm not saying you're not mentally ill, for all I know you're crazy as a loon. But that's not why you're here. Why you're here is because of the system, because of the economy. There's the TV. It's all right there. Commercials. We are not productive anymore, they don't need us to make things anymore, it's all automated. What are we for then? We're consumers. Okay, buy a lot of stuff, you're a good citizen. But if you don't buy a lot of stuff, you know what? You're mentally ill! That's a fact! If you don't buy things...toilet paper, new cars, computerized blenders, electrically operated sexual devices... Screwdrivers with mimiature built-in radar devices, stereo systems with brain implanted headphones, voice-ativated computers, &... So if you want to watch a particular program, say "All My Children" or something, you go to the Charge Commander Of The Interblock Matrix and tell her what day and time the show you want to see is on. But you have to tell her before the show is scheduled to be on. There was this one guy who was always requesting shows that had already played. He couldn't quite grasp the idea that the Charge Commander Of The Interblocked Matrix couldn't just make it be yesterday for him, turn back time ha ha. What a fruitcake!! Seriously, more and more people are being defined now as mentally ill. Why? Because they're not consuming on their own. But as patients, they become consumers of mental health care. And this gives the so-called sane people work! WHOO! Shock therapy, group therapy, hallucinations, therapeutic drugs, iggidy diggidy dig, perfect! The system in harmony like a big machine... Right! Right! Carried away, heh heh! I got "carried away". Explaining the workings of...the institution. But I don't really come from outer space.
Hi Tony - I really enjoyed this part 1 of your monolgue. Very creative. Very thought-provoking. Do you write a lot of this stuff, mate, and can we read part 2 anytime soon?
Sanity and insanity are creations of the system. People who see things a different way than the conditioned norm are called insane and locked up. They are not real concepts, just different names for people who see things differently.
Anybody who doesn't fit neatly into the definitive mold of what makes a "good citizen" is going to be said to have problems. I think it's important to keep in mind that regardless of whether a given person is "insane" or not, the role of the mental health industry is more about enabling people to live in society without any apparent problems, far moreso than it is about "healing" the given person. It doesn't matter whether or not the person's reasons for not being able to function in mainstream are justified and/or grounded in reality, because even if this were the case, what does being "right" have to do with functioning without apparent problems in a typical American setting? People are becoming more and more reliant on the "system" than ever, which is extremely dangerous given what lies ahead. People pay for more and more pointless things, have worse health (partially as a result of poorer quality of available foods - milk now is much less healthy than milk 50 years ago) that puts them at the mercy of the money-grubbing medical industry, they know how to do fewer and fewer things for themselves (fewer people are even doing simple things like preparing their own dinners anymore!). "News" these days usually consists of entertainment. It's going to be wild ride when international tensions, waning oil supplies, global warming, etc etc all converge onto a mostly clueless population.
Why thank you for your comment. I've been writing for a long while now, give or take a year or so. This was written about hmm.. 11 months ago, When I first started writing I usually wrote stuff that was way out there. A lot of it probably offensive, now of days I've been writing more realistic situations but, yeah I still write the far out shit whenever it hits me. As for material, I have book loads of short stories, poems, articles, monologues, etc. I was illiterate up until 2 years ago since than it's like every day is exciting to write. Though because I've only taught myself recently how to read & write, give or take two years, I still have many problems with grammar & even tiny words I'll get confused. Just up until 2 weeks ago I realized that 'than' was spelt with an 'a' other than a 'e'. But I've actually been thinking of sorting out my stuff & start publishing them. My friends & some online friends have told me they've never seen anyone write nor come up with new fresh stories never been thought through by others before. So they've been urging me to sell my stuff for profit. I mainly write in Internet workshops like I did with "The /'m?n&l-"og,". Yes, there is a /'m?n&l-"og, part II, even a third installment that I wrote alone & about 7 months ago (the third a little under 5). But in no way I could post it up here, even if I want it to it's equaled 30 pages in length, Part III 3x the length of part II & it would probably take you let alone few years to understand what the hell I was talking about. P.S Hint I first started learning reading & writing by trolling message boards.
About a year ago I worked on this in a writers workshop, which I stated earlier. For people that don't know what a workshop is in writers jargon. A workshop is basically five guys which sit around at a table, their are five tables plus five scripts of five items which are randomly sorted out to each table, the object of this is simple. We rip, trash, & rewrite the original script. The purpose for this is so that we can practice our ability to work & rework in artistic frame of mind from the original artist. yes, 25% of this written monologue is solid from the original screenplay but the rest is either from my colleagues or I. Besides, [starts to chuckle] I'm not going to post up real original workings of my own for free?
A-ha! So you're in it for the money, eh? Typical.... (I'm only teasing you....I write also, but don't think I'll be posting my works on messageboards, either....to risky)
