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15th December 2018 11:09
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Re: "I can't keep up any more." The world of Future Shock is already here
Hi Bill and Avalonians
Thread title sums up my feeling over the past several years.
Some of it is just surviving 60+ years on this planet, when I started work there weren’t even electric typewriters, let alone computers, I can remember setting up a VCR for my mother who was completely overwhelmed trying to keep up with the tech!. The accelerated rate of change for our generation has been even more confounding, I tried to keep up, but once I left the workplace without the 20 somethings to keep me in the loop, I too find myself struggling to keep up. And it’s the tech. that makes possible the information overload.
On the one hand, I am thrilled by it, encyclopaedias at the fingertips, access to a customised education of my choice, being able to virtually walk the streets of just about anywhere on the planet is just so fantastic, though hardly thrilling to the young. It used to take six weeks for me to exchange letters with my family when I lived in Australia! When I saw the movie 2001 in my youth (when we were still on wired landlines)I was blown away by the scene where he speaks, basically, on Skype to his family on earth and now we have that tech in our hands. We’ve seen sci fi become reality and a quantum leap in the rate of change. It’s been awesome, but then there’s the downside.
The widely used Wikipedia now revealed to be a completely unreliable source of information. The purveyors of disinformation now have the ultimate medium with the internet. You can’t be sure of the veracity of anything you see or read. The camera has never lied so much! In the fields of our interest so many people are jumping on the bandwagon and making a business of it, I actually find it nauseating.
You’re quite right that Dolan and Howe are losing audience like me, I skip past their tweets inviting me to view yet another hour and a half vid, too often discussing questions I’ve asked for decades and not providing any more interesting speculation than I can come up with myself. Greer lost me after Sirius and the Dark Journalist’s long treatises on Ouspensky, Gurdjieff, Steiner and Theosophy, also explored in my youth, just got boring. Thankfully, I’ve learnt to trust my nose with the likes of Goode, Wilcock, Fulford and Q. Like others, my energy these days is too precious to waste.
I don’t mean to sound like a know-it-all because who could, in a thousand lifetimes, read, view or digest it all? An all-encompassing ‘Knowing’ I suggest is something quite other and of a spiritual nature, that cannot be written or explained, only known.
It would be fair to say, I’ve simply lost interest in keeping up. Maybe I’m one of those Mr Toffler predicted would retreat to a corner and focus on what’s nearby, but perhaps there’s a spiritual evolution happening for a lot of us, where all of the noise becomes irrelevant.
On that note, may I leave you all with my quote of the moment that comes (allegedly, how can we know anything for sure ) from Long Chen Pa, it bangs a gong in me in any case.
“Since everything in Life is but an experience, perfect in being what it is; having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection; one may well burst out in laughter.”
Happy Holidays y’all.
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15th December 2018 11:09
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