Flying Monkey

To the degree that our lives are mundane, useless, slavish and spiteful; we are neither the hero of any story, nor the villain. We are mostly inconsequential.  The NPC of a video game who says the same dumb sentence over and over, no matter how many times or under what circumstances he speaks.  We are a flying monkey—entranced; following.  A  background zombie waiting for someone to wake us up.
​It parallels the narrative function the Israelite nation serves in the Bible. Always getting trapped, lost, enslaved, becoming useless, turning into a parody of themselves, plugging back in to the matrix, sinking back into unconsciousness watching someone else’s life play out on a movie screen.

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