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Programmed to be elsewhere - Magical Realist - Nov 3, 2026
Our capitalist culture has conditioned us to be overly concerned with being wherever we are not presently. Everything is vectoral. Nothing is scalar. A relentless nagging discontent with just being in the here and now. Always "on the go", never complacently rooted in one place.
The greener pastures on the other side of the fence. The future that never really gets here. It's why even the most luxurious homes have big bay windows for you to gawk at where you are not standing. It's why our gleaming cars are only useful insofar as they speedily transport us to places other than where we already are. Even reclining at home we are habitually doom scrolling for the next big thing.
Forever on the move and dislocated and pre-scheduled, never really being here and now at all. Like red blood cells constantly circulating to keep the Big Money Machine well-gorged and happy.
RE: Programmed to be elsewhere - Syne - Nov 3, 2026
Sounds like a personal problem. I don't experience that.
RE: Programmed to be elsewhere - Magical Realist - Nov 4, 2026
No..you're just such a mindless tool of the system you don't even notice it.
RE: Programmed to be elsewhere - Syne - Nov 4, 2026
You couldn't cope any harder if you tried.
RE: Programmed to be elsewhere - Magical Realist - Nov 4, 2026
Oooo...I can't "cope" now. Can't cope with what? Being a mindless tool like you? You betcha..
RE: Programmed to be elsewhere - Syne - Nov 4, 2026
You claim something YOU obviously feel, and then I simply tell you I don't. And then you have to immediately start in with the name calling and claiming I just don't realize that I feel the same way.
You're obviously coping. LOL! No one said you couldn't. I said you couldn't cope any more than you already are.
RE: Programmed to be elsewhere - Magical Realist - Nov 4, 2026
No tool. It was a harmless objective observation from living inside a culture for 67 years. Which you slighted as merely psychological. It was as usual your attempt to shit on one of my shared original insights. Everybody knows how you operate here. So suck on it.
RE: Programmed to be elsewhere - Syne - Nov 4, 2026
Yes, your observation... from your own experience. If it is a problem for you, that is definitionally personal.
RE: Programmed to be elsewhere - Magical Realist - Nov 4, 2026
(Yesterday 05:12 AM)Syne Wrote: Yes, your observation... from your own experience. If it is a problem for you, that is definitionally personal.
Like there's any such thing as an objective observation from someone else's experience. Do you even know what observation means? No? Well here ya go:
"An observation is the active process of carefully watching, listening, or paying close attention to someone, something, or a phenomenon to gather information and data."
RE: Programmed to be elsewhere - Syne - Nov 4, 2026
So... what are you throwing a little tantrum over?
You agree that it is your personal observation. You agree that you have a problem with it.
How is that not a personal problem? @_@