At 7:34 PM -0500 12/9/99, Cntryforce@aol.com wrote:
> This country loves to blow the "little" wrongs of society out of
>proportion in order to divert attention from the "big" wrongs. Race,
>religion, politics; petty stuff, ultimately. Humanity's true problems are at
>a much deeper level, but nobody seems interested. They'd rather continue
>arguing about race, religion, and politics. And abortion.
>
>Jon
Ok, here's where I'm coming from. When you say "this country" what exactly
are you talking about? As you examine that question, I'll tell you what's
on my mind. Our society is moving toward mediated reality. When you sit a
baby in front of a video machine and give him hours and hours of tv to
watch from the moment he's born till he's old enough to vote, then all his
concepts, all his ideas and all his basic attitudes will have been
programmed into him from an artificial source.
Humans didn't evolve that way. Our eyes have always been the portal to our
brains and the patterns we perceive in Nature make up the building blocks
of experience and consciousness itself. Buy allowing this process to be
mediated, an artificial reality to make up this consciousness formation, we
are putting our minds directly under the control of corporate giants whose
main goal is profit - not quality. Humans are being reduced intellectualy
by the process. Many realize this but don't even care.
Meanwhile, the social beast is becoming so huge and vast, that it seems
impossible for dynamic quality to influence the monster and thats a problem
because there are real issues that need to be resolved to prevent the
tragedys of the commons. Real problems, but no real leaders to deal with
them.
Now, back to your statement about blowing things out of proportion. That's
the six o'clock news you're talking about there. TV news is what defines
our country for us today. It's also what defines our country for others
overseas. TV defines reality for most. Moneyed interests control TV.
It's a static social trap that doesn't appear to have any loopholes where
quality can dynamically evolve.
I believe we gotta problem Houston.
jc
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