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Saturday Matinee: Lo and Behold
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World A bold and multidimensional documentary about the glories and the drawbacks of the Internet. By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Source: Spirituality & Practice Werner Herzog is an inimitable documentary filmmaker whose … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Technocracy, Technology, Video
Tagged Documentary, Lo and Behold, Technocracy, technology, Werner Herzog
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The Power of Presence, How “Living In The Now” Can Change Your Life
By Allie Stark Source: Collective Evolution Presence is the powerful practice of being in the moment. It is created through an acute awareness of one’s thoughts, feelings, and emotions, and in our modern day society, being present doesn’t always come … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Health, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged Anxiety, Consciousness, culture, Health, Meditation, Mental Health, Mental Illness, minfulness, Philosophy, psychology, society, Stress, technology
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Nostalgic for the Future
By Edward Curtin Source: Behind the Curtain Despite its pedigree as a fundamental element in civilization’s greatest stories, nostalgia has come to be associated with treacly sentimentality, defeatism, and spurious spiritual inclinations. Homer, Vergil, Dante, the Biblical writers, and their … Continue reading
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Tagged Consciousness, culture, nostalgia, Philosophy, psychology, Social Media, society, spirituality, technology
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The end of childhood play
By Brian Kaller Source: resilience Recorded history is the history of adults–generals, statesmen, explorers and scientists–but all of those adults began their path as children. And running beneath this official history is the unofficial history of childhood games and rituals, … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, education, Health, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged Childhood, Consciousness, culture, Education, games, history, nature, Philosophy, play, psychology, society, Sociology, Technocracy, technology, Tradition
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Déjà Vu All Over Again
The Matrix, resurrected By John Semley Source: The Baffler MIDWAY THROUGH 1999’S THE MATRIX, Keanu Reeves’s hacker-cum-cyberpunk-messiah Neo sees a black cat shivering in a doorway. Then, he sees it again. “Woah,” he utters, in that trademark, flat Keanu Reeves way. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, Film, media, Oligarchy, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged biotechnology, Carrie-Anne Moss, corporate media, culture, Cyberpunk, Dystopia, Keanu Reeves, Lana Wachowski, popular entertainment, Postmodernism, Science fiction, society, Technocracy, technology, The Matrix, The Matrix Resurrections
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THE THRESHOLD OF EXHAUSTION: OUR TIME FOR REGATHERING & RECALIBRATION
By Kingsley L. Dennis Source: Waking Times Decades of expansionist practices and beliefs have brought us to a new threshold. It is not yet the threshold between human and spirit, as some would have preferred, but a threshold of exhaustion. … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Health, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy
Tagged Consciousness, culture, media, Philosophy, post-industrialization, psychology, society, spirituality, Technocracy, technology
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When Everything Is Artifice and PR, Collapse Beckons
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The notion that consequence can be as easily managed as PR is the ultimate artifice and the ultimate delusion. The consequences of the drip-drip-drip of moral decay is difficult to discern in … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, military spending, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Big Tech, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, Education, empire, financial crisis, Marketing, Medicine, national defense, Planned obsolescence, Systemic Collapse, Technocracy, technology
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