The very alarming news, of economic woes/downturns, continues. It may be that the dust isn't going to settle, here, until after the outcome of the U.S. election, in early November.
Nevertheless, it's important to remember that the internet changed many things. Our communication devices, since cave man days, have always created our societies, and businesses and lifestyles have sprung up, over time, in response to such communication vehicles. Discovery and invention are a part of the human experience, and so society also changes over time, reacting to such inventions.
The internet ushered in a new way of being, at the same time as the calendar flipped over, by our reckoning, from the 20th to the 21st Century. When something new comes along, it's normal to try to stuff the past into the future, but it's that old square peg that won't fit into the new round hole!
The internet erased time, geography, gender and age. It's about intellect to intellect. It's also about the individual voice.
Let's just focus on the time issue, though. Things are now totally "instant". We react instantly, without thought, at any and all events. What can go down, so fast that our heads can't keep up with the pace, and we react totally out of fear, without knowledge, without reflection, without reasoned thought, can also go up the same way. Since time has now become "right now", "always", "immediate", what goes down so fast can also come up with the same speed.
Mmmmm...I hear people saying they don't have the time to recoup their losses, that it will be years before they get back to where they were. Is that a 20th Century response to time? In the instant world, of alwaysness, no time, time famine, is it possible that this ricochet effect of down-up-down-up, all sort of linked, at the same time, is the measure of our new world?
Problem is, no one has a road map, and that's perhaps why there is so much anxiety out there.
Where is our editing function? If we're awash in the endless stream of data, pretending to be informed, we need to remember to pause, to think, to reflect, to make a conscious decision in our actions, and not just to react mindlessly, full of fear...the lemmings did that, and remember what happened to them! Over the cliff!
Your thoughts?
We are in charge of ourselves, aren't we?
The good thing is that we're all in this rocky boat, adrift on this turbulent sea, all together. That also means that anyone of us can spy the direction to reach safe harbour, and so we need to be remembering that we are all creative beings.
If you see the route ahead, remember to shout directions.
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