Dumb, Spellbound, and Distracted
On the lifeblood of a new world.
Part 1
Experiencing Reality Through the Collective Unconscious, Intuition, Tradition, and Self-Awareness.
A mechanized world believes only in condensation of problems and not in a continuous dialectic struggle between man and the questions he construes.
~ Joost A.M. Meerloo
The old faded photographs of my parents and grandparents appear lonely and isolating to me. I often think about why I have this reaction.
I suppose it is the perceived smallness of their worlds that feels lonely and isolating. No internet, no mobile phones, no podcasts or streaming services to fill all the liminal spaces. Your community was largely the people in your neighborhood or the people you went to church with — people you physically engaged with.
Social media didn’t push the horrors and distractions of the world to your gaze at every waking moment. To drive somewhere was to memorize the route or reference the folded maps tucked in the glove box. Friendship was comprised of physical shared experience and quality time spent…
