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The Contents of Your Daily Life(crimethinc.com)
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| dJohn |
THE CONTENTS OF YOUR DAILY LIFE
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How many hours a day do you spend in front of a television screen? A computer screen? Behind an automobile windscreen? All three screens combined? What are you being screened from? How much of your life comes at you through a screen, vicariously?
Is watching things as exciting as doing things? Do you have enough time to do all the things that you want to? Do you have enough energy to? Why? And how many hours a day do you sleep? How are you affected by standardized time, designed solely to synchronize your movements with those of millions of other people? How long do you ever go without knowing what time it is? Who or what controls your minutes and hours? The minutes and hours that add up to your life? Are you saving time? Saving it up for what?
Can you put a value on a beautiful day, when the birds are singing and people are walking around together? How many dollars an hour does it take to pay you to stay inside and sell things or file papers? What can you get later that will make up for this day of your life?
How are you affected by being in crowds, by being surrounded by anonymous masses? Do you find yourself blocking your emotional responses to other human beings? And who prepares your meals? Do you ever eat by yourself? Do you ever eat standing up? How much do you know about what you eat and where it comes from? How much do you trust it?
What are we deprived of by labor-saving devices? By thought-saving devices? How are you affected by the requirements of efficiency, which place value on the product rather than the process, on the future rather than the present, the present moment that is getting shorter and shorter as we speed faster and faster into the future? What are we speeding towards? Are we saving time? Saving it up for what?
How are you affected by being moved around in prescribed paths, in elevators, buses, subways, escalators, on highways and sidewalks? By moving, working, and living in two- and three-dimensional grids? How are you affected by being organized, immobilized, and scheduled rather than wandering, roaming freely and spontaneously? Scavenging? (Shoplifting?) How much freedom of movement do you have--freedom to move through space, to move as far as you want, in new and unexplored directions?
And how are you affected by waiting? Waiting in line, waiting in traffic, waiting to eat, waiting for the bus, waiting to urinate--learning to punish and ignore your spontaneous urges? How are you affected by holding back your desires? By sexual repression, by the delay or denial of pleasure, starting in childhood, along with the suppression of everything in you that is spontaneous, everything that evidences your wild nature, your membership in the animal kingdom? Is pleasure dangerous?
Could danger be joyous? Do you ever need to see the sky? (Can you see many stars in it any more?) Do you ever need to see water, leaves, foliage, animals? Glinting, glimmering, moving? Is that why you have a pet, an aquarium, houseplants? Or are television and video your glinting, glimmering, moving? How much of your life comes at you through a screen, vicariously? If your life was made into a movie, would you watch it? How do you feel in situations of enforced passivity?
How are you affected by a non-stop assault of symbolic communication--audio, visual, print, billboard, video, radio, robotic voices--as you wander through a forest of signs? What are they urging upon you? Do you ever need solitude, quiet, contemplation? Do you remember it? Thinking on your own, rather than reacting to stimuli? Is it hard to look away?
Is looking away the very thing that is not permitted? Where can you go to find silence and solitude? Not white noise, but pure silence? Not loneliness, but gentle solitude? How often have you stopped to ask yourself questions like these? Do you find yourself committing acts of symbolic violence? Do you ever feel lonely in a way that words cannot even express? Do you sometimes feel yourself ready to LOSE CONTROL? |
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| ))the source(( |
Whoa...
I am definitely feeling this vibe. |
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| PeacefulWarrior |
| Excellent post. Thx John. |
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| AnotherWay83 |
| sum deep questions in that post |
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| BTG |
| quote: | Originally posted by mndeg
thinkcrime |
thought*crime.
pointless though, who cares about this stuff? |
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| TranceEuphoria |
great post! I should really think deeply about the questions posed in this article.
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| Vivid Boy |
| why the hell did i just read this article? will i ever get those 5 mins back in my life? why is the hulk green and not purple? where do the butterfly's go when it rains? is this a pimple or a guitter on my butt? how many native indians does it take to screw in a light bulb? why am i asking soo many questions? whos the crazy lady with her face pressed against my front window with the knife clenched in her teeth? is she hungry? would she like to come inside? maybe i should just lock the door? why dont we all talk in questions it is actually quite fun? |
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| fuct4less |
| so far im feelin it, but i searched the website and no where on it does it say what their purpose is... is it to encourage free thinking? to destroy the gov.? to save the planet? what is their purpose?:conf: :conf: :conf: |
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| whiskers |
| man, that's like taking out thoughts out of my mind or words out of my mouth. werd. |
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| DamnDirtyApe |
| quote: | | Please do not buy this product because it looks attractive or because all your friends have one. For your sake, don't waste your money on it unless you know what it is you're purchasing and think that it really might be useful or meaningful to you. Please do not think that merely purchasing this product is going to do anything to change the world, or to improve your life or anyone else's. |
If only all advertising was this honest... |
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| mndeg |
| quote: | Originally posted by BTG
thought*crime.
pointless though, who cares about this stuff? |
actually its thinkcrime |
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