Tremendous!! My only thought in counter would be their application of Huxley and Orwell at this same time seems to make their tyrannical operation all the more alarming. I'd say both are afoot...
I read Postman’s book in college and it was profound. Most of the comparisons were to TV. Now, it’s the internet. I think we’ve gone too far to come back.
Meanwhile on a beautiful planet floating in space, third planet from it's star-sun....Creation is bursting life...trees, flowers, people, fish, birds, zebras, giraffes, dolphins, apple trees, .... the list is endless...a process happening here and now at this very moment....a vast miracle.....instead of no-thing. And perhaps there being nothing wasn't even an option?
And in the midst of this vast miracle the overwhelming majority of people are ignoring it, not noticing it, some even thinking it's ridiculous nonsense to even speak of it.
All of the pain, suffering, numbness, hypocrisy, destruction, and corrupted social systems --- the garbage machine grinds on and on. The technology that it has acquired is not the problem, it's the application of the technology. Technology doesn't stiffle, maim, and kill. People do.
It may seem that the garbage machine is on the rise and that all is lost but I think it is actually in it's death throes....expending lots of energy...sort of like a chicken with it's head cut off....on it's last legs...from a historical perspective.
Meanwhile as one culture has been dying another has been rising. By one culture I mean mass planetary culture and not the sub cultures that comprise it. That mass culture is fear based. The rising culture is based on the opposite. The rising culture is based on love. Before anyone can step into...become a part of the rising culture they must first see and renounce the garbage machine.
So the way I see It and in my opinion you are much more than half way there. Embrace the despair, feel it, then let it go. You are not of it. Love is the answer.
Hi Karen! In a way it is too late. Our world is committing suicide, right in front of our eyes. And, indeed, the vast majority of addicted children we see by millions in front of us are not going to make it. The damages happened to early and to violently for them to become functional adults. What will be left after the Powers that Be succeed in their current plan? Soon enough, their monstrous fully digitalized world will collapse too. Because it's totally absurd. It can't last very long. However a majority of humans will have lost the ability to live outside the world we are building, very much like a handicapped person cannot live without his prosthesis. It is the end of a cycle.
Another thoughtful and provoking look at our landscape 👍
I'm tempted to say "ever was it thus", only because the idea of complete surrender to television and programming was the theme of a favorite album in my college years, "Remote Control", by The Tubes, from 1979 (the first song is titled "TV is King"😀). (Recommended one time)
What you describe is omnipresent, immersive, and damn near inescapable,
and irresistible to the young empty vessels we hope to fill with life, experience, character, imagination, wonder, creativity, and desire to achieve,
and we are decades down the road from the first generation to be consumed by the siren call of distraction and diversion,
who have let that pursuit sneak into the psyches of their progeny, now passively imprisoned and blind to the see-through walls that they live inside.
It MAY be too late. But our spirits thrive on growth, resonate with every accomplishment, radiate with every achievement, incandesce with actualization
and if we can find ways to make those situations a possibility for extension and expansion, for those young vessels
even if the failure to fly is rudely impressed on them,
Tremendous!! My only thought in counter would be their application of Huxley and Orwell at this same time seems to make their tyrannical operation all the more alarming. I'd say both are afoot...
I am so very pleased I found your writings, Karen Hunt.
Thank you.
I read Postman’s book in college and it was profound. Most of the comparisons were to TV. Now, it’s the internet. I think we’ve gone too far to come back.
Meanwhile on a beautiful planet floating in space, third planet from it's star-sun....Creation is bursting life...trees, flowers, people, fish, birds, zebras, giraffes, dolphins, apple trees, .... the list is endless...a process happening here and now at this very moment....a vast miracle.....instead of no-thing. And perhaps there being nothing wasn't even an option?
And in the midst of this vast miracle the overwhelming majority of people are ignoring it, not noticing it, some even thinking it's ridiculous nonsense to even speak of it.
All of the pain, suffering, numbness, hypocrisy, destruction, and corrupted social systems --- the garbage machine grinds on and on. The technology that it has acquired is not the problem, it's the application of the technology. Technology doesn't stiffle, maim, and kill. People do.
It may seem that the garbage machine is on the rise and that all is lost but I think it is actually in it's death throes....expending lots of energy...sort of like a chicken with it's head cut off....on it's last legs...from a historical perspective.
Meanwhile as one culture has been dying another has been rising. By one culture I mean mass planetary culture and not the sub cultures that comprise it. That mass culture is fear based. The rising culture is based on the opposite. The rising culture is based on love. Before anyone can step into...become a part of the rising culture they must first see and renounce the garbage machine.
So the way I see It and in my opinion you are much more than half way there. Embrace the despair, feel it, then let it go. You are not of it. Love is the answer.
Hi Karen! In a way it is too late. Our world is committing suicide, right in front of our eyes. And, indeed, the vast majority of addicted children we see by millions in front of us are not going to make it. The damages happened to early and to violently for them to become functional adults. What will be left after the Powers that Be succeed in their current plan? Soon enough, their monstrous fully digitalized world will collapse too. Because it's totally absurd. It can't last very long. However a majority of humans will have lost the ability to live outside the world we are building, very much like a handicapped person cannot live without his prosthesis. It is the end of a cycle.
Hi Karen!
Another thoughtful and provoking look at our landscape 👍
I'm tempted to say "ever was it thus", only because the idea of complete surrender to television and programming was the theme of a favorite album in my college years, "Remote Control", by The Tubes, from 1979 (the first song is titled "TV is King"😀). (Recommended one time)
What you describe is omnipresent, immersive, and damn near inescapable,
and irresistible to the young empty vessels we hope to fill with life, experience, character, imagination, wonder, creativity, and desire to achieve,
and we are decades down the road from the first generation to be consumed by the siren call of distraction and diversion,
who have let that pursuit sneak into the psyches of their progeny, now passively imprisoned and blind to the see-through walls that they live inside.
It MAY be too late. But our spirits thrive on growth, resonate with every accomplishment, radiate with every achievement, incandesce with actualization
and if we can find ways to make those situations a possibility for extension and expansion, for those young vessels
even if the failure to fly is rudely impressed on them,
we will have served our Purpose😀
Bless you Karen❗