The Perfect Humanoid Symbol, 21

When you look around, you can hardly find something not associated with – or rather not infested by – that nearly hypnotic and definitely subliminal association with the scourge of smoking; and this is not limited to the world itself, but it extends beyond the looking glass: whatever form of art and of media sends back to the world a questionable reflected image of it, and indeed the relentless omnipresence of smoking in that reflected image contributes heavily to multiply its obsessive presence, and to enrich it with irresistible connotations, in the eyes of the target public. The addicted to other poisons tend to hide and to be portrayed as hiding, too; the smokers on the contrary tend to usurp every possible private and public time and space, and to be portrayed accordingly, too, thus multiplying their invasion. As a result, not only the choreography of our lives, but that of those around us and of the models we’re all fed by media and artists as well, are all ruthlessly and uniformly shaped with no escape by the hypnotic ritual of smoking−related gestures, attitudes, behaviours and abuses usurping, perverting and degrading our lives, so that the capitulation of our besieged humanoid weaknesses is just a matter of time. Sure enough, considering how, as previously mentioned, artists have a leading role and are prone to that form of potential trouble source, of being effect, of shifting into the “winning” personality and side with the evils they – maybe – once detected and denounced, “artists” bear a heavy responsibility in the state of what they call “collective unconscious” – a fact which ought to persuade us to investigate the show business and its puppeteers behind such “artists”, incidentally –.

Each and every smoker, and particularly both smoking parents and smoking children, are betrayers of self, betrayers of one another, and betrayers of the community, in that they are being accomplices to the infiltration of poison instead of defending against this creeping enemy themselves, the community and its building block, the family. They are plain potential trouble sources relaying and amplifying suppression instead of detecting and stopping it. They are all betraying their duty, and particularly parents did not give life to children only to teach them to be addicted to filth, and children did not receive life from parents only to taint it with that addiction.