A wake up call by RS Connett.

I've been conditioned to feel bad on Monday for so many years that now it's almost impossible NOT to feel like shit on Monday.

I drew this on a particularly bad Monday morning. Monday 10/11/2004 to be exact.

Monday is the day that attacks me like a stinking black rat under my covers. It awakens me to its poisonous gnawing on my scrotum and as I scream in agony it rushes to bite out my eyes! My Sundays are often ruined because after the morning breakfast, (which I usually enjoy), I realize that tomorrow is MONDAY!

For decades I wasted my life working at jobs I hated, and always Monday was the worst day! It's like everyone is in a bad mood on Monday. (The same way that most people are in a good mood on Friday) We are such victims of our habits! We are so easily conditioned.

Now that I have finally found blessed escape from the 9 to 5 rat race, I am instead prone to sullen bouts of dark paralyzing depression. I have the hangover of this conditioning to plague me when I should be enjoying the "golden years" of my life.

Hey guess what kids, there ain't no "golden years" ahead! - so you better get smart fast and figure out a way not to get caught up in the mediocrity of the "J-O-B" bullshit that our great society offers you. It's this simple; If you don't figure out a way to do something in your life that you enjoy doing, you are fucked... PERIOD. You don't get the time back. You don't get no gold watch or reward for a "Job Well Done". Nothing I can tell you will prepare you for the grim reality that your life will become when you lose the thing that you can not possibly understand when you have it ... your youth.

So, find the courage to rise above the shallowness that is 99.9% of our society NOW, or forever you shall be cursed by the horror that is ... "MONDAY".

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BAGGED is symbolic of being forced to conform.

The feeling of being BAGGED is the feeling of aggravation caused when you realize the hypocrisy of YOUR obedience to rules of a system that serves the many, but NOT NECESSARILY YOU!

Systemized BAGGING suppresses the growth of the individual, YOU. Being BAGGED is having NO CHOICE. More accurately, you are tricked into BELIEVING that you have no FREEDOM TO CHOOSE. The BAG represents societies manacles. You’re insidiously and systematically painted into a corner, you are BAGGED!

YOU HAVE BEEN BAGGED the first time you compromise your honor. You "copped out." You went against your convictions. You betrayed your idealism. You chose "THE BAG" over the consequences of standing up for what you believe. Mainstream Culture CONDITIONS US TO DO THIS, to COMPLY.

It is the HIVE MENTALITY which teaches us that any means which will benefit the many, EVEN at the cost of the individual, is justifiable. WHEN YOU BUY INTO THAT, YOU BEGIN TO LOOSE YOUR INDIVIDUALISM. YOU BEGIN TO LOOSE YOUR IDENTITY … YOU ARE BEING BAGGED!

We are BAGGED BY OUR OBLIGATIONS TO CONFORM TO THE DEMANDS OF OUR CULTURE. We are unable to control everyday situations which ought to be simple IF we were to base our decisions on a simple code of honesty, ethics and honor. BUT INSTEAD we are tricked into weaving a tangled web of deceits. We give in to the pressure of the BAGGERS, and we end up getting BAGGED! If we refuse to YIELD to the demands of society, we will get BAGGED BY THE AUTHORITIES!

Do YOU ever feel BAGGED? If you are conscious, and have a conscience, you know what it is to be herded into "THE BAG."

CONFORMITY IS IN THE BAG

If you lose who you are through conformity, you may never find yourself again. The further and deeper you allow yourself to sink into the reality that is prepared for you by THEM* ... Prepared and dished out on Television, Radio, Movies, the 6 O’clock World Wide Propaganda, the less there is left of YOU.

It’s easy to give in, EVERYBODY wants you to conform, to be a TEAM PLAYER. ONE OF THE GUYS, OR ONE OF THE GIRLS, OR ONE OF THE GANG. BUT WHO ARE YOU WHEN THEY ALL GO HOME AND YOU ARE ALONE? Are you YOU, or are you? Are you sure that you have not become what they invented for you to be? Have you been … BAGGED?! ARE YOU IN THE BAG? THEIR BAG?! A BAG OF CRAP FED TO YOU WITH A SILVER SPOON WHILE YOU WATCH STAR SEARCH AND WISH YOU WERE A STAR TOO!

BEING BAGGED and BAGGING IS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS EVERY DAY in a civilization of conditioned conformity.
We are TIED, BRANDED AND BAGGED AT BIRTH … Assembly line products, BORN AND BAGGED PRODUCTS of the AMERICAN BAG COMPANY! THE ONLY TIME WE ARE ALLOWED TO TAKE OUR BAGS OFF, IS TO TRADE THEM IN FOR A BOX!

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