Two different realities
تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others -----Original Message----- From: archytas <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 9:01 PM Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: What drives the herd to keep the mainstream milktoast? Analysis of news content is a weird experience. If I can be sure Molly understands I'm not being sarcy, it's a bit like religious-spiritual trancing being done by the boss you know is a complete shit. On Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 6:53:57 PM UTC+1, Allan Heretic wrote: > > That is all I find news doing is selling sensationalism and private > interest. That is all that is known as news today.. the question becomes > are the people on the news programs are they news people or spin doctors? > > تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين > Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others > > -----Original Message----- > From: Molly <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 7:15 PM > Subject: Mind's Eye Re: What drives the herd to keep the mainstream > milktoast? > > 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. > -- --- 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. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. 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