...and why in the slam fucking hell when the first hints of a spider big enough to spin a world wide web were heard didn't the military unleash every tactical strike fighter at their disposal and hunt the beast into extinction?
There is no gravity. Just the universe trying like all hell to outrun the wave front of human stupidity, currently propagating at 32 ft per second per second in all directions.
reality.sys not found.
universe halted.
*bwaaayuank!* ...of course you are my bright little star, I've miles of files, pretty files, of your aforefarted fruits, and now to suit our great computes? You're... magnetic.. *swqueeeeeeeaaach* CALL NOW and for just FOUR easy payments of 19.95 you can own this magnificent mansion, but wait, there's more! Order with your major credit card and we'll include this beautiful blonde trophy wife genetically altered to give only the most tender loving of care to your absolutely perfect Harvard bound children, guaranteed to fuck you into a state of total mindless abandon every seventeen minu*tunktunktunk *
AMEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS,
I SAY AMEN AND DOWN WITH SIN,
SAY IT WITH ME, DOWN *Wikibrubabrubabruba* Jesus loves you my brothers, he died for YOUR SINS and he died for MY SINS and *shreeeeashereashhhhh* we'll be right back to Elvis Presly starring in Viva Las Vegas after a short word from our *issssssisssssissssisssss*
Ladies and Gentlemen, The President of the...
Some days I really think I should take up drinking cheap whiskey for a living.
(with only a slight apology to the Moody Blues, they did mean well...)
(five years later, and so little has changed... so little. Originally published 2011)
So how do we unload the information overload?
ReplyDeleteJochanaan, a deep question, and a good one. The answer to neutralizing the overload of infoglut resides in the self, where all such answers must begin. To hold the torrent of conflicting information presented by reality, presented by the media of the entertainment industry, to hold that force vector harmless involves understanding the self at levels that are essentially forbidden by the conventions of society.
ReplyDeleteIt involves understanding what it is we, each as a unique individual, truly need from our world to maintain and balance the self we are. Once those structures of the self are understood in all of the major components of life (physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual) then it becomes possible to rapidly filter the stream of info glut according to the need each drop in that stream is attempting to use to gain access and influence to our inner selves and discount and discard what is of no value, and to make choices among the offerings according to the real value they offer.
The stream of infoglut examined from a perspective truly external to the human condition, from the perspective God would see it (and yes, that is quite a place to try and put your head) is nothing more than the various collective entities competing for the individuals who host their life force. When you isolate any one segment of that stream, force it to exist as a unique thing to examine it, does it not come to sound like a fledgling robin, beak open and screaming "feedmefeedMeFEEDME?"
Jocahanaan, I wish I could do a better job of setting into words the answer I see and must live with day to day.
Oh, I think I can separate myself from the infoglut (love that word!) enough to make some sense of it. But I see that humanity must begin to think hard to save itself--and many of those from whom the infoglut flows don't want us to think hard lest we unmask them. Is there time enough before the Crash to teach humans to think again?
ReplyDeleteI hope so Jochanaan, I hope so. And the first tool we must provide them is a mirror to reflect the appropriate frequencies of thought. when the Bible is taken as a book of questions rather than a book of answers it does a fine job in that capacity...
ReplyDeleteIt does indeed! And the Bible is not merely a book of "Thou shalt not," but a vital document of history, poetry, vision and great wisdom. Jesus of Nazareth may well have been the greatest storyteller ever to visit this planet. The Psalms are not just mindless praise but contain every emotion man feels, even the violent ones. And the Prophets were always commenting on Godly social justice--and many were killed for it: "...from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slow between the temple and the altar." (Matthew 23:35)
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