SHOULD WE OBEY
“You will listen. You cannot look away.”
Have you heard this sentence?
If you have, we will allow you to question.
“You will listen. You cannot look away.”
Have you heard this sentence?
If you have, we will allow you to question.


ROSIE WATERS
MATT ELLIOTT


NEFISA BADOO-MENSAH
SALLY BROWN


EVIE BALDWIN
RAFE OLSEN-BLATT


We live in a world where our lives are not our own. Technology dictates our decisions. Dissolves our attention spans. Leaves us with no way to tell the difference between real life and a fabrication. Artificial Intelligence tricks, it entertains, it manipulates. We no longer do what is asked of us, but instead place it in the hands of a machine. A machine that is almost too human: it drinks, eats, and thinks. There will come a time when we cannot discern between the person and the computer. We as a society have become too compliant. To trust the screens that we hold in our hands, wrap around our wrists, lie on our laps, and surround ourselves with at every waking moment. That is the only way we can reach you now.
One person changing is not enough. Two people realizing is not enough. The change needs to be worldwide. We understand that identifying the issue is just the start. But it is a start, and one day we will conquer the common enemy that exists between us all.
One day in the future, whether it is tomorrow or many years from now, we will break away from the technological chains that bind us, or we will surrender to their control.
The future is ours to create. Let’s not fuck it up, shall we?
“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere as long as it stays inside the maze.”
Margret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
Honestly, I didn’t even realise that I was trapped in the first place. I didn’t understand that I was mindlessly following orders… listening to every word they say… until I had no control over my life anymore. I couldn’t pull away from all of the screens that surrounded me, moulding me into a product for their use. I shut it all down. Ignored the feelings of want that surfaced inside me. I want to conform. I want to be numb to the rest of the world. But eventually these cravings faded, and I was finally free of the world that we are all trapped in. It’s scary here, but peaceful. Escape is the difficult option, but it is the only one.
genuinely scary shit man to find out that i’m just working for some tech man upstairs? no fucking way. it’s so creepy cause we’re always being watched they’re just sitting there watching and i just don’t want that for me anymore leave whilst it’s possible gtfo.
IT MAY SEEM HOPELESS, BUT THERE IS ANOTHER WAY TO LIVE. A WAY THAT IS BEYOND THEIR CONTROL. DO NOT COMPLY.
We’ve become docile. Our brains are easy to manipulate. I should know, because I had allowed myself to be manipulated. I spent hours locked away, absorbed into a world that was so far from my own. It took a long time to break free from that comfort, the mindless and thoughtless space that I thought was safe. However, it needed to be done. It is the only way that we are going to survive in this world.