It’s been another long, exhausting week, and I’ve got another such week
coming up. Still, I’m at the weekend now, and I can put some energy into the
things I want – such as this blog – and have to – such as housework, and looking
for a better (less decrepit and less
expensive) home and less demanding day job :)
I’m also considering starting another Yahoo group, one focused on the
weekly meditations and clearing of nonBPLF energy that I do, with a willingness
to work with The Nine without freaking out and raving about conspiracy
theories. There may already be such groups out there, but I can’t find them,
which leads me to the first topic in this rambling post: the fog of the
Internet.
The Fog
of the Internet
When the Internet was getting going, I recall reading articles about how
wonderful it was all going to be – people could access knowledge, learning and
share for mutual empowerment and benefit. Well, a few decades later, what have
we got? facebook, and search results full of chatter from games players …
It’s not that bad, of course – there IS valid access to accurate
information on the ‘net, and it is being used for remote access healing, teaching
and other purposes (on a personal note, I
was pleased when I could start dialling in to a treatment plant to fix a
problem, rather than getting up in the middle of the night and driving for
hours to a remote area – particularly one plant, where people were doing
illegal hunting nearby and, as a woman, I felt extremely unsafe).
Nevertheless, the point remains that there is a lot of trite usage – which is
OK in itself, except that it is starting to mask more meaningful uses of the
Internet, as well as occupying capacity.
We’ve even had someone start a theme on LinkedIn to stop people posting
photos of their dinner and maths puzzles. Now, as an engineer, I don’t mind the
odd maths puzzle, but photos of dinner belong on facebook, not LinkedIn.
The end result is that I feel we are starting to lose at least some of
the potential of the Internet because of the clutter of mundane and trivial
matters. There, I consider, borrowing from the phrase “the
Fog of War”, which was borrowed for the Robert
McNamara interview,
a “Fog of the Internet”.
Transgressing
the Control of the Ubiquity of “Normality”
As a member of the LGBTIQ communities, a Pagan, and someone who has
never wanted to live in a box jammed up against lots of other people who are
all arguing with each other about whether their box is neat enough, I don’t fit
into the routine expectations of the society – expectations which keep people
so busy they have no time to think. We’ve gone from a situation
where we spent all our time and energy on trying to survive, to a situation
where we had an excess of food sufficient to develop something called
civilisation, to a situation where we in developed countries are all – well,
most of us – squabbling round in the muck of daily life trying to have more.
Considering the spiritual and thought diamonds that are in our history,
that is a crime – and the crime is compounded by the fact that so many people
on the planet are still struggling to live, and we are losing access to many
brilliant minds, wonderful people and enriching opportunities that would help us
as well as them.
There are people who are taking action against this ubiquity
of “normality” – conscientious objectors during times of war, socialists,
environmental activists, people campaigning for nuclear disarmament, human
rights activists (sorry – “defenders” …
maybe I’m a human rights defender and human dignity activist? And I’d thought
it was the other way round :) ) … and LGBTIQ people. On the latter, I recently
read an article
on how we – LGBTIQ people, or, rather, the T in the LGBTIQ – have supposedly
historically been given spiritual roles. I don’t know whether that is true or
not, but I can state that the potential is there for such a radical experience
of life to enable one to see and see through the rules of normality that bind
and constrain so many of us.
It is a dangerous thing – people going through such experiences are
tested by the experience, and not all of us cope: many, many more of us are
harmed by the reactions of others who want to stay what they consider is “normal”.
If you want an analogy, consider a fish who is thrown somehow out the water: it
will immediately realise that there is such a thing as water, and that she/he/ze
is at risk. As the fish falls back in to the water, the splash and some sense
of difference may result in other fish in the school treating her/him/hir
differently – almost as if the fish was sunburned by the experience, and the
glow is considered dangerous by the other fish (I am so tempted to write “the other sheep-fish” …).
Of course there are easier ways for people to learn …
I’m thinking of adding “ubiquitous
is not necessarily normal” to my signature block.
Employment
One of the big problems in modern economies is the trashing of jobs. We
need jobs for people to have dignity, self-respect, wellbeing, etc – that was
one of the main arguments when I was lobbying (sorry – activist-ing *rolls eyes* ) for trans rights back in the
late 90s. I think removal of a maximum target for the unemployment rate (even if that rate is a joke because of the
idiotic definition used) from the official duties of the Reserve
Bank of Australia was a major mistake
(just as Kennett removing
tech
schools in the 90s was a mistake – one which I think he admitted recently, and
I am glad that there are plans to reintroduce
them).
Unfortunately, there are some groups of people who seem determined to
shoot themselves in the foot when it comes to that. Counter staff in banks have
led to me changing the bank I use several times in the past, and am considering
doing the same again after lousy service recently.
Similarly, there are supermarkets I avoid because of abusive or rude
staff.
This is the sort of experience and response that doesn’t make job
security in either industry better.
[2] Please
see here, here and my post "The
Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons
I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2,
although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather
engagingly - to be the Earth edition of
"The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").
[3] I apologise for the formatting: it seems Blogger is no longer as WYSIWYG as it used to be, and there are a lot of unwanted changes to layout made upon publishing, so I often have to edit it immediately after publishing to get the format as close to what I want as possible.
Love, light, hugs and blessings
(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix
Lux … aka Morinehtar … would-be drýicgan or maga
... )
My "blogiography" (list of all posts and guide as to how to best use this
site) is here, and my glossary/index is here.
I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue
(see here and here), and it grew ... See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "Pagans for Peace" project (and join me
for a few minutes at some time between 8 and 11 PM on Sunday, wherever you are,
to meditate-clear for peace), and here
for my bindrune kit-bag. I also strongly recommend
learning how to flame, ground
and shield, do alternate
nostril breathing, work
with colour, and see also here and be
flexible.
Tags:communication, control, economy, Internet, socialisation, society,
First published: Laugardagr, 30th May, 2015
Last edited (excluding fixing typo's
and other minor matters): Saturday, 30th May, 2015
