Being fed the human dead is an apt metaphor. The sleeping human might also be on point. TV is awful, few movies in our house make it to the "not a stinker" category. On whole, I am glad the warmer weather is upon us so that my attention will be directed outside with a greater "to do" list, including a new circle study to hang on the garden shed to compliment the black sun. And yet, on the whole I think the quality of my inner workings is up to me and not Hollywood.
Journalists used to vet our politicians and investigate the hidden. Or did I just think it was doing that? Now I find it going through the motions and selling out to sensationalism and private interest. On Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 12:56:22 PM UTC-4, archytas wrote: > > One might think of this more directly in terms of a spiritual grasp of the > whole. I don't mean chanting monks as Orn would tell us about, but rather > whatever might have us involved (though chanting monks are surely more > interesting than live television watching people sleep - presumably hoping > they won't wake up and make things even more boring). We might list > responses from Allan's sig line, chanting monks, soap opera, libidinal > newsrooms and direct action to living in a big data field that is very > distressing. > > Allan's sig line - raises wicked witch of Berlin leading to 'arguments' > that distract from what real issues might be > Chanting monks - may have pleasant voices > Reality TV - needs cameras following idiots that 'watch' it > Libidinal newsrooms - need surveillance of quasi and real masturbation > fantasies (people write in protesting they can't see the legs of female > news presenters) > > All these matters and ,many more could be looked at in a big data > framework in which we could see the 'individual' formed in terms of time > spent in what is mostly not activity concerned with fulfilment. Looking at > television schedules, Sue and I find almost nothing to watch and most of > that made 20 years ago and more. Metaphorically, we think the > entertainment industry and internet powers, education and politics feed us > Soylent Green! > > On Sunday, 29 March 2015 13:53:18 UTC+1, Molly wrote: >> >> "The tragedy of journalism now is that it is demand driven. And when you >> ask people what they want, we're like one of those rats that have a lever >> to push and cocaine comes out. And once that happens one time, they'll stay >> there till they die, until more of the drug appears. We can't help loving >> lurid stories and suspense and the kind of sex and violence which the news >> is now made up of," Marty Kaplan >> <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Marty-Kaplan/220259631346836> tells Bill >> in this interview. >> http://billmoyers.com/segment/marty-kaplan-on-the-weapons-of-mass-distraction/ >> >> "The power of mass distraction" is an interesting notion, and I find that >> it is much easier for people to look away from a problem than to contribute >> to a solution. Part of that may be disagreement on what the solution is. >> Much of it may be the overall malaise of "nothing I can do about it" as >> most of us feel we have no real influence on the larger world problems. In >> the past four years I've seen a dramatic drop in public demonstrations in >> downtown Detroit and most of the demonstrations that happen are of the "for >> hire" variety, with the same nationally based organizers who are making a >> buck off the movement (big time) and choose the causes carefully to >> insure that. >> >> I demonstrated during the Vietnam demonstration era and found that many >> of my pier group became social organizers afterward, not organizing >> demonstrations but organizing communities from within, more of social >> service than social activism as we know it today. There are huge >> demonstrations going on all over the world but not many here in the US. >> Does this mean we are giving into distraction and looking away from >> solutions waiting for the action to implement? Or is there a different >> social organization emerging, one more of collaboration than dissension? Or >> something else? >> > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
