The State of the Union
To avoid misunderstanding, I’m not talking about the USA, but rather the UHS –Union of the Human Species. In this age of the Internet and mass communication we are bombarded by news daily from every corner of the planet and it’s impossible to avoid knowing what’s happening to us, human beings. However, the barrage of daily news bouncing off of our individual consciousness prevents us from absorbing and digesting all the data we receive. The daily distractions of the newest mass shootings, stabbing, police brutality, political scandal, sexual assault, environmental disaster, genocide and another war somewhere on the planet affects us like sandblasting affects a crumbling wall – we start crumbling ourselves without noticing it.
As my new-year resolution I stopped watching the news on Jan 1st this year and just let my mind wander around in my head, trying to process all the news I already had received. I wanted to have a feel for our collective consciousness, find out the state of our collective mind. After a month and a half of strict media-diet I have a feel for our emotional state: confusion, fear, anger, panic, hate, evasion, denial, stubbornness and resignation: we are unable and unwilling to make the necessary changes to avoid extinction. We are watching the fast approaching iceberg and our hands are frozen on the tiller, staring at our impending doom, knowing that it can’t be done.
Now that I have done what I had wanted to achieve, I can resume my life: write stories that very few people will read, finish the second volume of my Physics book about how scientists ran into a brick wall in the twentieth century and how we invent gods and epicycles to pretend for ourselves that we are facing reality.
I wish all of us a successful strategy for evading the knowledge that, subconsciously, we already have. I wish a happy new year for all of us.
As my new-year resolution I stopped watching the news on Jan 1st this year and just let my mind wander around in my head, trying to process all the news I already had received. I wanted to have a feel for our collective consciousness, find out the state of our collective mind. After a month and a half of strict media-diet I have a feel for our emotional state: confusion, fear, anger, panic, hate, evasion, denial, stubbornness and resignation: we are unable and unwilling to make the necessary changes to avoid extinction. We are watching the fast approaching iceberg and our hands are frozen on the tiller, staring at our impending doom, knowing that it can’t be done.
Now that I have done what I had wanted to achieve, I can resume my life: write stories that very few people will read, finish the second volume of my Physics book about how scientists ran into a brick wall in the twentieth century and how we invent gods and epicycles to pretend for ourselves that we are facing reality.
I wish all of us a successful strategy for evading the knowledge that, subconsciously, we already have. I wish a happy new year for all of us.
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It's a strange set of contradictions. Not hard to envision that homo sapiens is a failed species heading for extinction. Possible to hold a vision of quantum leaps in consciousness that launches a new era. What wave length to you want to tune into? Perhaps the collective consciousness does make a difference. If so, we each must consider what we are contributing to the collective emanations surrounding planet Earth. In any event, we'll feel better ourselves with hope than despair.
It's really depressing how easily people are manipulated by the media.