To get to action, past the worry, requires some thought. If you aren’t equipped, you can’t do it. (‘You’ in the general sense, not you, Wanderfound.) But it’s easy to equip with some key info.
The modern age has arisen from humankind’s desire to make survival easier, with invention. However, invention has remained mostly in the physical world, and in the thinking mind but has not been attended to well at all in terms of the psyche.
What has happened is that our clever inventions have brought great relief and physical convenience, but have increased people’s stress levels in many other ways. “Stress,” that vague term, manifests very specifically in the mammalian fight-or-flight response. Long term, sustained fight-or-flight becomes hypertension, obesity, cardiovascular disease, mental disorders like anxiety and depression, and ten thousand other psychopathologies. There is a ton more to say about this. That’s the extreme nutshell version.
But the point is: if you don’t know already, then you need to know the physical manifestation of our modern woes. Technology, the way we do it, induces our state of being. You don’t watch TV. You ARE your TV.
The American media, the Trump machine, our movies, TV shows, the news, articles and social media platforms are designed for one thing: to evoke as strong a reaction as possible, to keep your eyeballs and concentration entrained. In the last 30 years or so that I’ve been paying attention, those messages have been refined so well that the reactions are precisely timed, finely tuned and utterly predictable. “They”'re playing us like a six string guitar.
The news is designed to incite your rage. Fight or flight. Trump’s every statement is designed to evoke your reaction. The media who cover him take everything he says and does and amplify it tenfold. A hundredfold. Why? To get you to react. They want to eat your soul.
Don’t give it to them!
Resist!
Tell your friends, family and strangers on the street. Don’t let Trump eat your soul. Don’t let America eat your soul. Fight back.
Fight back, HARD! Fuck the TV. Throw it out the window. Fuck the newspapers and mainstream media. Fuck CNN and Fox and all the rest. Be very selective about your sources and turn your skepticism up to 110.
Vote for the sanest candidates you can find. Don’t make dumb, idealistic decisions and let another soul-eater get into the Oval Office. Don’t! This is practical. Do you want your soul eaten or not? Well, now you know what to do.
