Tuesday 12 Nov.
The day after ‘remembrance day’, the day we forget what it was all about and go back to our day to day life of not giving a fuck about the fact that history is about to repeat itself in a very dark way.
Right wing politicians going to remembrance services while advocating policies that will take us back (politically) to the darkest years of the 1930’s.
That my friends is satire, sad but also funny, the hypocrisy of us Sapiens knows no bounds, and we are all guilty of it in one way or the other.
I claim to be worried about the climate and I despise the way we plunder the world and it’s resources, yet at the same time I also order things on line, mostly things I need, but sometimes things that after two or three weeks (at most) get shoved in one of the drawers (if I can find space) never to be used again. We have, these last few years, developed a sort of consumerism Bulimia , using consumer goods the same way as some of us use food, as a comfort, a temporary dopamine boost that passes almost the moment the thing is delivered, the biggest dopamine shot is the waiting, the delivery, the unpacking, then the first time you use/or wear the thing, then the dopamine recedes, the feeling of guilt comes over us, we hate ourselves and the system, for luring us into the consumer trap, then a few days or weeks later it repeats itself.
How to escape this trap? Well we can watch some self help videos on ‘You Tube’, then they themselves become addictive, and they come with ads telling us to eat more of this or that, or better still ‘take this food supplement’.
‘Exercise more!’, but only when using this or that drink, wearing this or that equipment, the one drug gets quickly exchanged for the other, and as long as you keep keep consuming and spending, and staying on-line, the algorithm is happy. Don’t be afraid of robots, we are the robots. We are the robots whose job it is to consume, give away our privacy and data, and decrease our own mental ability by watching more and more mind-numbing shite on line.
Escape plan? I don’t really have one, but maybe spend less time on line, get outside and leave the phone at home or switch it off, read instead of watch.
Oh yes, one more thing before you start commenting on the above, I know I’m also using social media and on line platforms to post this, but hey, I’m human and therefore I’m contradictory in some ways.
I have no problem with the internet and the way we connect, my gripe is more about how we use this ‘new world trickery’ while under pressure from the algorithm to waste our time and feel malcontent about ourselves.
We are on a learning curve, we need to learn how to use all of this technology, while not letting it use us.