What could I say that properly reflects what I see today?
Well, there are many things – but I tire of the specifics. There are too many of them, and speaking of all of those things is too soul-destroying. In any case, what good would such effort achieve?
I think this explains to some extent why I write so infrequently nowadays. The pain and angst generated from the process of making thoughts visible to others is no longer personally viewed as forming part of my own personal burden. So, what’s the difference as to whether I internalise these things or spread my thoughts to others through these pages? Well, there is a difference. It is all to do with time and effort. Time, I have lots of, though everything takes longer these days; effort, not so much. So don’t expect to hear from me too frequently. But I will do my best – to keep myself informed, and to disseminate those things I find needful, or important, and which make me feel I may have somehow failed if I don’t.
I cannot prevent myself, still, almost continually – at least many times a day – contemplating the movements and the directions of those movements, of events which in one form or another emerge from the swamp of mankind’s seedier and more mundane activities to pass my gaze as stories which have potential to affect my own now quite coddled and insular way of life at some point.
I should say here that my focus remains at the global rather than say regional or even local levels, and certainly not the personal (which I have always maintained should be the sole responsibility of any person of reasonable intellect and fitness to take within their normal stride as part of daily life). So any average person, with average responsibilities and capabilities, should also be concerned about the same things which concern myself – and with a similar degree of interest. That, however, does not appear to be the case. People generally seem to be bogged down – almost literally dragging themselves through the mud and mire – performing those simple things of life which in earlier times would not have presented such disempowering kinds of obstacle. In many cases of course, it is because the things which bog us down and occupy so much of our time and effort today simply did not exist back then. Life was simpler. The technology which was supposed to liberate us from drudgery has instead become our master. We serve it, rather that the other way. And the complexity which accompanies a society capable of producing such wonders as we have today, simply bind us into that relationship. We are not our own master, and our expected adherence to the system leaves us no time to ponder how we actually reached this state – and more importantly where it is leading us. You know, the global issues, which so concern me and others not so integrated into the system. Most people just do not care or in fact have time to care about those issues. Added to that, they are fed with distorted truth or outright lies – given a false image of that world they do not care to study for themselves – by the systems designated ‘news’ services. All of these things lead to folk suffering from various kinds of anxiety and other mental or physical trauma – in numerical levels never witnessed before – and often misdiagnosed and mistreated by the new technology-based experimental industries that have emerged around these phenomena. Are we literally going to shortly see every second person as a sufferer of one or both of these (very profitable for the system – until it all breaks down) human frailties?
Is the image of the mouse kept within the tubular treadmill experiment cutting a little too close to the bone, as a metaphor?
Such organised societies eventually break down – always. And if viewed from outside, as some are still capable of doing, that process of breaking down is quite visible. I have been writing on these themes on and off for around eleven years now, and in 2018 Julian Assange also saw this process in motion. He had this to say (click image for link) – and it is still true today…
“Our societies are intellectual shanty towns. Our beliefs about the world and each other have been created by the same system that has lied us into repeated wars that have killed millions.” —@JulianAssange
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