08/24/2011
A "MATRIX" LIFE
One great thing about the modern life being the you can have a totally virtual life and no one will bother you, I am not making this up folks, look around you , how many you see that are living a life totally devoid of any context of reality.
We no longer call it a delusion, even as the pursuit of a delusion has taken the urgency of a fix. Life used to be simple, but we don't like simple things. Gandhi, or Emerson, or even Buddha had simple lives, but they had no competition, or complications for that matter, they gave up everything, today we want simplicity as long as it comes with everything in this world, internet, reality TV, air conditioning and a three car garage. World has no room for seven billion new Buddha'.
And why really be a Buddha, separation from our reality today does not require quiet solitude or meditation, just pull out your BlackBerry or whatever and you are there.
When the computer games started, and we all played, we selected avatars, and for sometime we "relieved" our fantasies through these avatars, till the avatars became us, living out a short fantasy was no longer enough, it was a full time obsession. IT IS.
Why not, we have the money and the time, and WE are, we can be whatever we want to be, no consequences. Look at the contestants on the American Idol, are these people real? Not the finalists, the hundred thousand others that show up. Look at the Star Trek reunions, do these people actually in a work a day world too? Nothing is bizarre anymore, we have no idea what normal is. But it does matter, to the individual and to the society at large , as to what we are, and what worth the society really places in us.
Do you not wonder why would some one hold a party for the end of the "Friends" series? What kind of a person would get sick because of the demise of their favorite TV personality, or the hundreds of thousands and more that still morn, Micheal Jackson and Elvis and Dale Earnhardt?
Do you not wonder what's up with these freaks? Do they not have a life of their own ? If yes, then what is this life worth that has so much time available for idol worship? Not just the dead ones either, who in the hell is obsessed with Kim Kardashians ass? Or then there are cases of people getting so upset because they could not get chicken nuggets at a store that they beat up the cashier? Are we for real? Why such a big head and sense of privilege.
Why not though, we are effected by what we see, hear and watch. Look at Lindsey Lohan, Paris Hilton, Tiger Woods, and why not Dick Cheney, and Timothy Geithner, John Boehner et all. Do any of these have a good grasp on reality? I doubt it.
It makes me sick, back in 1973, I bagged groceries at the Publix, in Palm Beach, my customers had real money, even though tipping was "forbidden" but majority of my customers insisted, and they were generous, some even asked for me by name, and they were kind, always, soft spoken and always thanked me profusely. Now I have watched episodes ( a couple of ) of the Real Housewives, and Basket Ball Wives, these people give the real rich a bad name, once again, Paris Hilton not withstanding , people with real money do know how to behave well in public and they never ever talk about their money, these women give the ghetto whores a bad rep.Yet there we are, our girls want to emulate these Ho's and many of them succeeding
CONTINUING STILL
LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE
A "MATRIX" LIFE
One great thing about the modern life being the you can have a totally virtual life and no one will bother you, I am not making this up folks, look around you , how many you see that are living a life totally devoid of any context of reality.
We no longer call it a delusion, even as the pursuit of a delusion has taken the urgency of a fix. Life used to be simple, but we don't like simple things. Gandhi, or Emerson, or even Buddha had simple lives, but they had no competition, or complications for that matter, they gave up everything, today we want simplicity as long as it comes with everything in this world, internet, reality TV, air conditioning and a three car garage. World has no room for seven billion new Buddha'.
And why really be a Buddha, separation from our reality today does not require quiet solitude or meditation, just pull out your BlackBerry or whatever and you are there.
When the computer games started, and we all played, we selected avatars, and for sometime we "relieved" our fantasies through these avatars, till the avatars became us, living out a short fantasy was no longer enough, it was a full time obsession. IT IS.
Why not, we have the money and the time, and WE are, we can be whatever we want to be, no consequences. Look at the contestants on the American Idol, are these people real? Not the finalists, the hundred thousand others that show up. Look at the Star Trek reunions, do these people actually in a work a day world too? Nothing is bizarre anymore, we have no idea what normal is. But it does matter, to the individual and to the society at large , as to what we are, and what worth the society really places in us.
Do you not wonder why would some one hold a party for the end of the "Friends" series? What kind of a person would get sick because of the demise of their favorite TV personality, or the hundreds of thousands and more that still morn, Micheal Jackson and Elvis and Dale Earnhardt?
Do you not wonder what's up with these freaks? Do they not have a life of their own ? If yes, then what is this life worth that has so much time available for idol worship? Not just the dead ones either, who in the hell is obsessed with Kim Kardashians ass? Or then there are cases of people getting so upset because they could not get chicken nuggets at a store that they beat up the cashier? Are we for real? Why such a big head and sense of privilege.
Why not though, we are effected by what we see, hear and watch. Look at Lindsey Lohan, Paris Hilton, Tiger Woods, and why not Dick Cheney, and Timothy Geithner, John Boehner et all. Do any of these have a good grasp on reality? I doubt it.
It makes me sick, back in 1973, I bagged groceries at the Publix, in Palm Beach, my customers had real money, even though tipping was "forbidden" but majority of my customers insisted, and they were generous, some even asked for me by name, and they were kind, always, soft spoken and always thanked me profusely. Now I have watched episodes ( a couple of ) of the Real Housewives, and Basket Ball Wives, these people give the real rich a bad name, once again, Paris Hilton not withstanding , people with real money do know how to behave well in public and they never ever talk about their money, these women give the ghetto whores a bad rep.Yet there we are, our girls want to emulate these Ho's and many of them succeeding
CONTINUING STILL
LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE