This is a story about Mediocrites; the philosopher of our time.

Mediocrites silently preaches a gospel of go with the flow and keep your head down.  ”Don’t worry about it.  Someone else will figure it out.  Besides, think of all of the work that it would take to get that idea going”, he whispers into the ears of people.  In the early 1900′s, the public education began to take shape around the ideas of Mediocrites.  He, himself had no desire to get involved with the vision but it did make him chuckle.

Mediocrites currently resides in the brains of those who worship him.

Mediocrites, being fairly intelligent could understand why public education was being set up like a factory.  It had to produce an obedient work force that would carry out the plans of those in charge.  He just couldn’t understand why anyone in there right mind would go through all of that trouble.  In 1933, the philosophy of Mediocrites became a public mandate.  With the introduction of television, the world had a great potential to awaken and grow in many new ways with new ideas.  After the public mandate, television was relegated to programming aimed at the level of a twelve year old and became a pipeline for endless mind-numbing products.

With the masses strictly adhering to the new mandate, those that were in charge of innovation were under pressure to keep the products coming.  Those that asked questions about how to reduce factory pollution or facilitate fairness in distributing life enhancing innovative technology were quickly silenced by threat of losing their job, family or life.

With the advent of the internet, something began to occur.  People started inter-acting in new ways.  Even Mediocrites embraced this technology.  His current Facebook status says “Mediocrites is going to the store to pick up some things and is excited about the American Idol finale tonight:)”

Something bigger is going on however.  Mediocrites is dying.  Contrary to the desires of those who used Mediocrites ideas to create an global hamster wheel, people are communicating and inter-acting at a speed that no one could have planned for.  With this comes the spread of ideas at exceedingly rapid rates.  Naturally, because of this increase, neurons in human brains are firing faster and connecting more dots.  The philosophy of Mediocrites is slowly being replaced by something else, something greater, perhaps more aware.

You have to understand that Mediocrites never wanted his philosophy to be used in such a detrimental way.  He just wanted to live his life, do his thing and maintain what he had.  When he found all of this out, he just shrugged his shoulders.  I have compassion for him.  I’ve seen him around a lot but never made friends with him because, honestly, he is just so fucking boring to talk to.  I do feel for him though.

I’m not sure if anyone will attend his funeral but they will be troubled by his death.