“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
-Aldous Huxley
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How much of who you’ve become is confined within a pursuit of stimulation?
We’ve created a paradoxical world.
A spectrum that numbs the essence of our spirit through a bombardment of stimulation.
When was the last time you had a moment outside of the noise?
Observe the balance, or lack thereof, between how much you create and consume.
Everything in our society is consumption, creating a desire for quick fix gratification.
As a result, people around us have become disposable while our purpose is found in pleasure.
When consuming, you can never have enough to satiate the ravenous appetite rooted in your unsatisfied spirit.
Man’s search for meaning has been hijacked by passive entertainment and an escape into technology.
“Before machinery, men who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them with machinery.”
-Aldous Huxley
Artistic culture, the expression of one’s own inner spirit, dies when we passively externalize leisure.
Entertainment is meant to be found in the active collaboration of community.
What could we possibly create and discover together?
Today, people isolate and escape into a screen, while only pretending to connect and validate one another through social media.
The entertainment industry is a mass manufactured distraction.
Social media is a mass manufactured distraction.
Is your entire identity the byproduct of a mass manufactured distraction?
If yes, you are not alone.
As our parents were before us, we’ve been conditioned to wrap our identities entirely into societal norms.
Technological innovation has allowed for the status quo of mass consumption to expand exponentially.
In an era that preaches diversity and tolerance, true individuation has become a rarity.
Diversity doesn’t expand into diversity of thought, as this poses a threat to the very nature of a system built on technological efficiency.
We are becoming machine like, cogs in a wheel, and the system only embeds this transition from man into machine.
Escaping the vicious cycle of systematic survival, true self-sufficiency, is the goal of every free thinking individual.
This is what it means to “escape the matrix.”
But how does one begin to grasp the meaning of “something more” when their entire perception is wrapped in a systematic identity?
The discovery of beauty.
Beauty can be revealed through our creativity, our expression of self-sufficiency, but it first must be discovered.
Beauty is a timeless revelation of spirit.
It is something beyond us, while simultaneously running through and serving as the essence of who we are.
Technological innovation and rampant material culture has squandered beauty, making it a rarity to be seen in our everyday lives.
It is no wonder we are living in a world devoid of true connection and meaning.
It is no wonder then we so rarely see beauty within ourselves.
When we come back inside ourselves, accepting a brief pause existing outside the noise, the truth of beauty can be revealed.
Fix your gaze, just for a moment, on something beautiful.
Maybe you’ll find it in a mountain range, impressionist painting, or in the eyes of another soul.
Maybe, just maybe, you’ll gaze in a mirror and let the truth be shown.
You are so much deeper than the burden of a manufactured identity.
Let beauty show you the way out of your head and into your heart.
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to bake and to cook one's food, which really deserves more merit, is creative, provides nutrition and is beautiful and delicious. win-win! our innate sense of beauty and harmony has been deliberately corrupted through powerful propaganda and the ludicrous efforts to deify "modern art". very illustrative article here (long read) - http://www.frot.co.nz/design/conspiracies/how-the-tavistock-institute-invented-rock-roll/