Where is the Future now?

Behind the glitter of spectacular distractions, a tendency toward banalization dominates modern society the world over, even where the more advanced forms of commodity consumption have seemingly multiplied the variety of roles and objects to choose from. The vestiges of religion and of the family, along with the vestiges of moral repression imposed by those two institutions, can be blended with ostentatious pretensions of worldly gratification precisely because life in this particular world remains repressive and offers nothing but pseudo-gratifications. Complacent acceptance of the status quo may also coexist with purely spectacular rebelliousness — dissatisfaction itself becomes a commodity as soon as the economy of abundance develops the capacity to process that particular raw material.

- Society of the Spectacle, chapter 3, 59

Friday, July 16, 2010

The Anti Box

17th July

Man was a hunter. What in his evolutionary process from a quadruped would have him evolve into a biped? Possibly, as a hunter to see farther and to chase. It is a simple and direct association to man and nature.
In terms of spirituality, it was for him to be better tomorrow than he was today.
So what prompted this entire simplicity to complicate itself where one cannot remember or even forgets to question why they were stuck in the present rut - lifestyle? He fell in Love? :P Progress? We live in world governed by norms (they are to facilitate) that act as strongholds, either negative or positive

What is the reason for being today? This is a subjective question, although the basic format to the way people live makes me wonder how much control our constructed environment has over us?
Why is it important that I identify this?

Can identifying that the box exists everywhere make us aware of this lifestyle that we have developing around us. How can "full consiousness" of this lifestyle help us make better choices for ourselves? Could a slight awareness of personal well being in this chaos change the way we look at various systems and the way we interpret them - education, career choices, status.
Could being aware of the box help you think out of it?

So then what is the form of the "anti box"? Of all that, that is not boxed in, that is breaking out of the system, however small in scale.

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