Whenever we watch a dystopian movie where the rich, the elites, and powerful joyfully watching the poor people fight for survival, we think about how horrifying that would be. In those movies, people compete for food, money, shelter and even climbing the ladder while the elites watch from a safe distance, betting and treating the whole thing as entertainment. Perhaps, we even think, well thankfully, it's just a movie.
Looking at how things playout these days, I dare say. WE LIVE IN A WORLD LIKE THAT.
What gets increasingly dystopian is that people all over the world are being told to prepare emergency kit and survival worth for 3 days. For most people, this is just probably disaster preparedness and for the government sending that warning, there has to be something in it. Like the Red Cross in the UK said that the advice is because it reflects the reality that disruptions to everyday services can happen for many reasons. Severe weather, flooding, power cuts or other issues affecting transport and communications can make daily life more difficult for several days. Being prepared can help households cope more confidently when these situations occur. In the past, they do not normally do this unless there is something that prompt them to create a prevention. Many of here perhaps are more aware than others but for majority of the people, this isn't something that is common to them.
That message certainly does not account those who live below the poverty level. It just goes to show that if you are poor, you'll less likely to survive whatever hits your country, whether it's nuclear war, disaster or simply power cut. But there's a hope And as an avid apocalyptic movie enjoyer and game player, my takeaway is why stock up when you can loot? I know I am joking but learning from Covid, being prepared is one of the key to survival.
Here's what I notice though. Those things are roll out to the news and obviously serves as certain warning or just a diversion. When you get off the news, the government is still cooking up project here and there. While they are not oblivious towards instability everything is just business as usual. They know what to do and gets the A1 information than the rest of the people because what gets to the people is the filtered information.
In Indonesian case for instance, we no longer divided by classes anymore. We are now given by number, 1 to 10. This is based on recent data that are collected by government to rank families by their relative economic welfare so they can decide who should receive social assistance.
The rank is based not only on salary alone but also housing conditions, assets, employment, education, access to water, electricity, health and other characteristics. You can earn $200 but is ranked 7 because you have no dependent and live on a nicer house that was given by your family. Hence, you no longer able to receive any assistance from the government. You're neither rich nor poor. You can earn $6000/month but ranked 3 because you rent the place, live in a shack and your income does not reflect your actual lived experience. So, you are eligible to receive government assistance.
That alone is already dystopian because that system is being used to asses many government aid programs. Think of it this way that system alone can be used to determine what opportunities you have to survive. Recently, the social welfare ministry said that it will asses the national health insurance using this system.
In the past, it was purely based on classes and your ability to pay. You choose 1,2,3 with 1 being most expensive. If you can only afford $2.5/month per person, then that's what you choose, the 3rd class. But now, that system is going to be replaced through these ranking. If they retain the class system, then that's still good because it only affects how much the govt is contributing in the "actual" payment of the insurance. But if they start proposing flat tariff based on the ranking system, that's utterly dystopian.
The more I look at the news, the more it angers me. We're now asked to prepare for disasters by ourselves while the government is doing fuck-all. Might as well just raw-dog the situation, hope for the best. Because why live among people with these psychopathic traits? It doesn't mean they're cruel but to the people who actually enjoy making everyone else's lives miserable, can't just they go play their little survival games with each other?
Wouldn't it be fun that these sociopaths and psychopaths have their own little game and ranking. I am sure there's like some millions of them worldwide, enough to create one nation only under one system. I am sure they'll enjoy it.
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𝘊𝘦𝘮𝘺 (𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘤) 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵, 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘬. 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘶𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴? 𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭, 𝘨𝘦𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺, 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦, 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴. 𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘏𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘣 𝘢 𝘤𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺. |
