The quote, “the only constant is change” applies when thinking in terms of the infinite. Infinity itself being a state of superposition. The constant change of state between being and not being looks very much like chaos. This chaos, from a techgnostic perspective, is opportunity for movement forward. Existing in the infinite chaos is like floating in space. Suddenly all that matters is navigation and moving forward. What you are moving towards can only be answered uniquely within each individual. The secret is that once we start sharing our direction with each other we find ourselves on similar trajectories. What becomes special is how we get there. Each person creates their own tunnel reality out of experiences and perceptions. Every expression is a manifest of individual understanding (ego). Every book, a single voice. Every movie, couch, table, anything made by man is a symbol of our likeness to the creator. Not by what it is but because it is. This is the great understanding of freewill. “You can create anything, What are you going to create?”
The television is a window into the minds of the masses. It takes huge numbers of people to create the spectacles and even more to absorb them. It is like a very sensitive consciousness measuring device. The feedback in the tool is the ratings system. The less attention given to a particular show the quicker it withers and dies. What makes a show “sticky“? Very low frequency, usually circuit1, biological and circuit2 territorial stimulus with brief spikes to circuit4 social/sexual. Explosions and material possessions, sexual interlude blah blah blah we’ve seen it. Why do we keep feeding this stuff to ourselves? We can create anything! Yet we stay locked on the same formula of crap. Its because we lack the development of the tools needed to perceive uniquely.
So lets tear into this. Popular culture is a huge bank of energy. A force that supersedes religion because it thrives on our biological embodiment and rarely engages the immune/defense system of our consciousness. Popular culture inspires passivity while religion asks you to participate. What happens if we attempt to become like the images we see? You would be thrown in jail. The cultural immune system would suppress you. You are not allowed to act out the things you see on the tv. A good thing for all of us. Examine the power structure for a moment. You have a huge amount of energy going into image creation that no one is allowed to achieve in their own lives. The pinnacle of success is dangled just out of reach enough to keep us locked in a cycle of striving but never really able to have. The proverbial “carrot on a string” trick. The hierarchical power structure loves it. We are so busy striving for something we cant have that we don’t notice we have lost ourselves in the process. If we don’t know who we are its easy to tell us anything. Here is the magic though. The power of content creation is finding its way back into our hands. We are slowly moving off the treadmill into ourselves as the creators that we are. The trick is going to be keeping people mindful of their creations.
This is where the overwhelming decentralization of power that we see is leading us. Unfortunately we don’t have a solid infrastructure to catch and guide the newly found creators. All of our past systems were focused on getting us here. Now that we have made it, those systems seem so antiquated. I don’t believe we are the first people on this planet this close to freedom though. There have been past civilizations that have gotten here and failed. Buried by their own capacity and inability to manage their creations. We have to leapfrog the coming collapse.
The thing to be learned in the framework of popular culture is what success feels like. This is tricky so let me explain. When you are successful it leads you to perceive opportunities and create more success. Success becomes a headspace that you carry into new experiences. However success is just a headspace. It is not hiding in the material somewhere. When a successful headspace is stimulated by the material it is something that occurs inside you. Headspaces or perceptions are the software we carry around with us. The material reminds us of what our goal feels like. It stimulates those feelings. So within the framework of pop culture, take from its huge efforts the reminder of yourself as a successful creator. You can hold the frequency in your mind as you go into the world and take action. You will find happening more and more that you will be successful. With your new headspace you will find yourself asking, “How will what I am about to create help other people find success within themselves?”
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December 8, 2006 at 6:25 am
Christopher G
This is amazing. The study of media is a tricky one for those who divulge deeper than what you were saying as the surface levels of the imagery of violence and sexuallity. What media is, or has become is what you said, a consistent reminder of what we should want to be. The sad part is that it seems to me to be a circular trap. People see “Reality shows” like “The Real World”, (which is ironic seeming that the show is niether based on reality or of anything most people have in the real world) and through observation, that what they have in that show, is what the viewer needs to have.
Besides the capitalistic plug involved, I believe that there are even stronger implications of such shows. Anyone put in front of a camera is obviously not going to act how they would in reality. So when the people get upset, they might throw a fit and storm out of the room, where if it were in a real life situation, they might have just muttered to themselves and walked away. People seeing these ways of acting (and with the reinforcment of many, many simialar shows) begin to absorb these quailties in their real life, as how they can, or even should act in real situations.
Have you ever been driving a car, in the rain and a song comes on and you think, “jeeze, this is just like that one movie…”. Media effects our everyday perseption. Through this concept formed primarly from Baudrillard’s idea of simulation, people can surmise that reality, in a whole has been effected perminitly. Has anyone (in the western culture specificaly) ever been in a relationship without in someway relateing it to a movie? i don’t think so, and what about what you buy, or how your dress. When you buy clothes, sometimes do you related it to a charicter in a show or movie before assesing if it is something you like?
Though i supose i could go on, ill make my point/comment. My belief is that media has perminitly effected/changed our perception of reality…thats the bad news, the good news is that there is nothing we can do about it but utailize it for our potiential. It’s no use fighting what has taken years to engrane in our personality, but we are here, now, in this system of symbols and layered meaning, the code as Baudrillard put it. We can still be effective, but knowing how far in we are is the first step.