Posted by alexandra_k on April 8, 2015, at 19:19:41
In reply to Re: realisation..., posted by alexandra_k on April 6, 2015, at 21:49:50
The university signed away our tenancy rights. Usually tenents have rights... Landlords aren't allowed to enter the properly without 48 hours notice - unless there is an emergency. The university signed away our tenancy rights. People can enter the building whenever they want on maintenence grounds. They don't even have to let us know they have done so. I mean... It doesn't say that, explicitly... But that it is technically allowed.
I found these trees... The side of the park... Between the road and the railway lines... There is native bush. Old trees. Canopy trees. There are orange tags about possums (who eat all the vegetation off and just leave the tree)... Then there are orange spray painted trees with all their limbs chopped off. Then there are orange spray painted trees and... There is nothing wrong with them. Nice wood. Expensive wood. Then there are woodpiles.
Apartment blocks are going up. Medium density. Between One of the nicest village parts of the city and the railway lines. In the valley... This is across the railway line from that. I expect they are half heartedly trying to make it look like the possums are turning the pretty bush into a wasteland. Less resistence then when the nicer apartments (by the park) go up.
I learned... If you discover something that you think shouldn't be happening... Chemical waste being dumped somewhere or... Whatever... Then the first thing you should do is to check. Because they probably have a permit. Of course... When you have permits to do such things you probably want to do it under the cover of darkness (when the world is asleep)... But still... The worst things that are done... Are typically allowed.
I have become fearful about my privacy in this building. I have become scared that the owner of this apartment (someone who probably lives overseas somewhere) is live streaming me for their own entertainment... Or maybe entertaining others... There could be a whole show made up of people who live in this building... And I look around... And buildings... So many buildings... A nice loft... And then some nicer apartments... And then lower level apartments... All foreign owned... I wonder who owns this building.
And all these new university buildings. The university name tag on the side. But they are foreign ownership built (where the security system is installed) or managed... Close to foreign owned business. Right across from it, sometimes. I mean... People could be sitting behind their one way glass business offices with binoculars or cameras trained on the people living in the building...
We don't have laws preventing people from live streaming. There are a couple aps that just got launched. Apparently they will take down content they deem inappropriate... But by then the damage is done. People have their surveillance devices / phones... Filming... Camera... Televisions. Something about one that could respond to voice. Or... Store voice. Stream your voice. Nice new LG's got installed in this building. They got a great deal on them. I've put a little piece of blu tac on the eye that's winking at me on their logo... Just in case.
I feel like i'm living in a 1984 novel... My cellphone is probably streaming / recording my voice...
Of course all of this technology... None of it matters so long as you keep your head down. Huddle in with the herd. When I came up the lift before the poster of the business guy... This advertisement thing to hear him talk... Someone stuck pinboard pins through his eyes...
I feel very stressed. I feel like I need to get out of the city. I feel like... This building isn't my home anymore. I should be relaxing / studying. Not worrying about property developers killing the trees... Property developers living in lofts spying on their pets... Property developers living overseas spying on their pets... All of it... Perfectly legal.
The philosophy department here is getting squashed... It is all about business... Big business... We are being taken over. We have been taken over. We are foreign owned.
The news has... Gone back to rainbows puppy dogs and... However that song goes...
Dr Bob... Please can you tell me it is going to be okay?
What is happening? Are things... Shifting... Or am I just starting to see stuff that have been happening for the longest time? Or... This faint worry in the back of my mind... Do I need to be thinking about meds? Is this self-stabotage because class has been going so well?
I need to work for a couple hours. Then go supermarket shopping... I won't use my card today... The tracking card... They are tracking my purchases... To see whether I'm playing by the rules in buying up all the sugar and alcohol...
Not just me, of course. All of us.
I suppose they could be using the knowledge for good... A bunch of people out there may have learned that I'm a decent person, actually. i'm not getting up to anything illegal in my room. I eat pretty well and try and avoid the cheap crap that will kill me (but I do have lapses sometimes). I am a sucker for their 2 for 1 advertising at times... But otherwise I resist it. Their knowledge... Could partly be why things have been going so well for me lately. And the University signing the rights away that they did... We got nice new flatscreens on the walls. We got nice studio apartments on a ridge right in the city.
And maybe something odd is happening with the building rubbish or... Who knows what... But isn't it a small price to pay? What is the alternative? Another building in the city that is every bit as bad... If not... Actually... Worse.
This is why people end up working in very abstract areas in philosophy... Why people withdraw... Why I... Why I almost wish I were blinded to all of this... I would feel happier...
I need to get out of the city for a bit... i see why people say that, now. I don't know what to do.
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