How many hours a day do you spend in front of a television screen? A computer screen? A screen of a car window? What are you being screened from? How much of your life comes at you through a screen, vicariously while you sit and watch? Is watching things as exciting as doing things? Do you have enough time to do all the things you want to? Do you even have enough energy to?
Do you think for yourself, independently, or do you take others' words for truth? How often do you find yourself repeating something you heard another say without it having any bearing on your personal experience; your personal truth? How are you affected by standardized time, designed solely to synchronize your movements with those of billions of other people? How long do you 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.
How do you feel in large crowds of anonymous masses? Do you find yourself blocking your emotional responses to other human beings? Can you put value on a beautiful day? How many dollars an hour salary does it take to stay inside and sell things or file papers for someone else? What will you later buy that will make up for this day in your life?
Do you have ideas or do ideas have you?
Steal it back.
How are you affected by being moved around in prescribed paths, in elevators, buses, subways, highways, and sidewalks? By moving, living, and working in two- and three-dimensional grids? How are you affected by being immobilized, organized, and scheduled..instead if wandering, roaming freely? How much freedom of movement do you have?
How often are you waiting? Waiting in line, waiting in traffic, waiting to eat, waiting to use the bathroom, waiting for the bus (learning to punish and control your natural urges).
Do videotapes of your friends and yourself fascinate you, as if somehow you are more real in image form? Would a movie about your life be interesting? How do you feel about the constant, non-stop barrage of audio, visuals, and billboard that guide you through endless advertisements?
How often does your happiness come in conjunction with buying something?
Have you ever asked yourself these things?
Do you ever feel inexorably lonely?
Are you really happy?
Do you ever feel like you're going to lose control?
Do you have the energy to create change?
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