Culture of easy-swallowing society -VII

- continues from part six -

VII. Visual language and exposing of Self (mobile clicks)

    Everyone is familiar with the phenomena of social media posts, photos, “sharing” and profile pictures. Facebook, google and more social sites offer plenty of choices for every taste, the information on groups and people is so vast that you can sink in it as in ocean. Participating in this social places, communities, circles…friends collections, you actually choose to be swallowed by that ocean. Why do you need to care if it contains reality? You choose quantity, nice effects, smiles and vortex of information. Any kind of information, no matter how much its approved and credible, is surely represented by highlights of visual effects. This is the place of pictures, image, faces and “showing off” from all corners in the world. This is place of trade, exchange, connection too. But for most of people this social place fails to reach higher potential. Most people on social sites are not able to simply observe, see and “read” all of that ocean of information, so they need to choose carefully.

However, as one of the aspects in speed-space is lack of time, the users don’t spend long time in reading any information. The most important becomes the visual effects, the visual language. All words, all expressions, texts are replaced by very comfortable and easy to swallow – images, mobile pictures, icons, emoticons, stickers, symbols. All of that exists to substitute the words. This kind of substitution is double – once from the real behavior, speech –face to face gestures, smiles; and second time – from written text, which becomes needless. The text put as a short famous quote has much bigger chance to reach to the audience, but only if it`s exposed through effective image-photo. That’s how the language works just in the level of visual. Sadly this is not very creative for the higher mind, that needs food from real language (as sound, face expressions) or written text (unlocking potential of imagination). The two are missing in this self-exhibited social theater.

    The higher mindful Self is replaced by bragging or hiding Self of profile image. This image, as many others “shared” on the platform, represents the throwing away of Art, and falling down to the passing, intrusive daily culture. This is the real culture of swallowing, going to the place of daily routine point, where nothing is art. (or anything can be thought as art, no matter of its shape). This are realities that we see diminishing of higher Mind. It becomes instrument of comfortable “seeing –accepting”, and does no longer belong to “observing –knowing”. Such paradigm is too away from Wisdom and from anything closer to spiritual development. Yes, we can find already multiple amazing sections, that will serve us in spiritual development. It is truth, this is the trick of the speed –space Like Facebook, that’s how so many people from different categories and social ranks and spiritual levels, are present in this space. Anyone can find something suitable for his taste. But the general mechanism, work of this place is connected always with this parameters – speed-lack of time, visual effects, self-exposing, lack of art, going away from Mind. That means the more time you devote to be in the social theater, the more your mind will go down in speed, will be not able to reach peaceful point, and will suffer anxiety.

   Self-exposing in internet sites and platforms is one of the main “features” of the easy-swallowing culture. Everyone needs to feel attractive – by one way or another –posting of personal images, “selfies”, appearance of millions photo-shop and photo-decoration applications, images of wisdom, sharing special events. Everyone is involved in that by his own choice, with his own lower mind, exposing him-self. This is also exposure of fake Self. Could anyone possibly know me through my profile picture? Or from my posts expressing what is my taste and position in life? or what is my daily routine, likes, schedule, friends, travels? Finally, do I have connection with my Self through all that sharing with “others”? or I`m near to lose this connection?

    The crazy “selfies” are kind of self-exposure that only need to achieve “cheap effect” by attracting the senses. We all love to be attracted that way, its easiest (in “love” too). This cheap effect results in some really “amazing” cases of suicide of people, who make acrobatic circus show by going in dangerous high buildings, climbing on a train roof (and being burnt by wires), climbing on billboard and falling down…all that cases are real and reveal something more than narrow mind. Such acrobatic showing off can be possible only when the Self suffers destruction, when self is on a verge of a risk, and needs to be proven or die. That’s how all culture is heading to its end.

    The selfies and mobile “clicks” are the new culture language. This is colorful, effective and easy to understand language (even it doesn’t need understanding at all). Just see and trust it is so. If the human mind was not already developed in the divine model of God, the consequences of that culture spread will be devastating. Then, if I had a profile picture of a frog, majority of people living the social platform life, would be sure that “I am really this frog”. Stupidity is always limitless as are stars in cosmos. Mobile clicks have another task, namely to go away from the high art. If cinema in 30- 60 had the aim to reach potential of high art and it succeed in that, now the “cinema” role, taken by the social virtual actors on internet, aims to be down in the routine, in the false ideas, in false lives, in faked faces and virtual masks. The black and white photography was (is) art, the effective mobile images of Self, using photo collage, color and brush effects, are not just escape from “art”, they are grotesque.

It aims to destroy forms of art. We are on the verge of catastrophe, that will be challenging, and leading again to the highest spiritual return.

The actors will be dissolved in New generation of lavender (crystal) mind, that will change the world forever.

That’s all from me now on the topic of “Easy-swallowing culture”, and I hope if you read this to the end, it made you think deeply.

[ nina Lea-nura * ] 

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Culture of easy-swallowing society -V

- continues from part four -

V. False freedom and false tolerance

     This theme requires quite long explanation and concentration to be understood. I wont go into deep philosophical discourse on what is meaning of freedom and is a human free a priori (by nature). In connection with the topic of easy-swallowing culture (societies), I want to observe the sense of freedom. How freedom can exist in this speed-space, and is it real one? The answer is - freedom is unreal, it is thought –of- freedom, and fake. The same as the friends –collections on the social sites, and the same as the view-understanding of own Self. From position of ordinary person, who is roaming around the space of internet daily, getting easy to obtain information from the web-sites, using millions and multiple services and applications – all that are parts of Freedom. How we cant be free in so amazingly huge, not recognizable, without limits space –internet? Are we not free to see, look and discover any point of the world, ancient civilizations, different cultures, societies, structure of the cities, meet people from all over the world, talk with them, be connected from any point of the globe? Is that not freedom? In first sight – yes, we call it freedom. But this labeled freedom is knife with two sides. This is the same freedom to choose multiple options of bank accounts and credit cards, to be satisfied with the interest rate, and all bank services…and in the same time to accumulate big debts. So there are two sides always of something that has the outlines of Freedom. The main reason this is fake understanding of freedom, even if there are too many advantages for the culture - is again multi sides. It is connected with speed, fake environment, easily acquired information (pictures almost forget about copy-right of the paper), being easily in touch with anyone using social services (Viber). That all creates a false feeling of safety and freedom. Remember that internet is one of the most unsafe places, the information you get so easily cant be approved, the identities are blurred and you can obtain and lose easily your own identity. So this freedom – if you are not quite careful about your actions, can lead to bad consequences. If there is a free space, in which anything and anyone can be fake, how you can be sure about your virtual environment? You need to have also control on your search preferences, to install anti-virus protections, to clean your files and data by many ways and to keep register of all data separately from your pc, laptop or mobile device. So many precautions don’t mean freedom. All freedom, as anything else in material, is limited.

There is also another phenomena, appearing after wide spread of personal internet. This is the false tolerance. What this term means?

     With the limited and fake freedom of space-speed in internet platforms, it appears natural feeling of curiosity, attachment, like and need of understanding the “others”, not equal to you. The user become a comfortable reclining person, who travels everywhere he wants by visual maps, pictures and 3D, 4D images. He is now click away to visit the plate of Great Pyramids in Giza, to go to Cairo Musem, to roam streets of Paris, to look the mosque of Isfahan from inside and in details. That way of free roaming in virtual places arise need to understand others, and by nature, to love them. This feeling appears of course consciously or not. So some people are attracted from that different cultures, not equal to their own. The same as before people were attracted by romantic thrill of writing letters by hand and sending them to far away land. In this way it appears sense of tolerance to others, need to accept them for what they are. The feeling of love and tolerance to other, different than me, is something very positive for sure. No doubt about. But I want to point out, this is again not real tolerance, but just a “cover”, mask of tolerance. Why? Simply because its created by the need and by human nature. As someone said before –the need of love is not the love itself. Whatever very positive theories about “attraction” we read, they fail in some basic points. Sadly –not all that glitters is gold. And it’s a fact. That’s why – the feeling of tolerance and love to others is something amazing and beautiful by itself. As a feeling and idea it is what we all strive. But in reality this feeling is not so easy to achieve, as it requires certain position and action –directed to the object of tolerance/ love. In the point of action exactly this falls apart. Its psychological issue –we become more tolerant and “understanding” mostly to people, who are very far from our own society, own culture, own family. Someone wont be so tolerant to mistakes of his own children, than to a person from another culture and religion. This is so, because of need to be open, need of freedom, and lack of time for depth and analysis, given with virtual platforms. We become so open, so “tolerant” and loving to all other world, as we start to lose our own identity in the chaos of spread pieces. That’s how amazing phenomena of psychological traps of mind came to life, in face of issue with the escaping from wars and death immigrants and refugees from Syria. Later we discover that 30% of them are actually pure African people and not Syrian. The astonishing waves of millions of unfortunate refugees, were (strangely why) directed not to south, but to north and Europe, where they had hope to flee from their miserable life and find shelter.) So the tolerant Europe opens its arms to embrace the poor waves of immigrants with children and women…without any questioning or answers, what they will do in the future? How they can (and if this is possible at all) integrate themselves from one very far away culture of Muslim societies and east African style of life, traditions and customs, to the open and careless about nudity and sexuality “European” society. Moreover no one asked the very obvious and fundamental questions – how these people will continue their life? Will they need more schools, working places, shops, areas of living, and most of all – more and more aids, donations and food until they are able to be responsible for their own lives? Why these strongly motivated to escape from disasters of war people did not head to closer places and countries (like the vast and reach areas of Saudi Arabia, Algeria, African countries?). And are people in Europe living in reality in “higher standard”, or this is just a myth? All these questions were not asked but matter was to help this people immediately – by the easiest way for them – to save their lives for the moment, even with many consequences in the future. The false tolerance comes when the people who accepted the same sad refugees” received offences and strikes in return to their generosity. Mothers in Germany, who opened their arms and houses for refugees, were devastated by the violence and rape of their child. (Many such cases are recorded). This is a fact. Now its not virtual or game. The virtual tolerance, acceptance and love to these “others”, will easily become misunderstanding, intolerance and hatred…just by changing the position of donor to victim. Or it will remain false tolerance.

      False tolerance is to want to give love to someone who don’t want to receive it, and instead has other needs. It is to assume that just because you are human you should help other human beings, without to ask them what actually they want? Where they need to go, what is their aim? This acceptance without deeper understanding of “others” is blind. And as I said already –its beautiful feeling to give love – but don’t expect something (good) in return. If your image about another is left only to the words of this person, and you didn’t have any deeper knowledge (even in historical line) about his culture, habits, places, religion, so you cant have real understanding. You will stay to the “need of tolerance” which will be always a position of risk, no matter how noble it looks. Be tolerant” to the point you know what you are able to give. Not more than that. 

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