Saturday, January 25, 2014
That is all.
For those of you who have comcast in the Philly area, channel 882 is Palladia. This is the best channel.
Cause we're living in a…..
material world? no, a binary world. Everything is binary, either yes or no, this or that, liberal or conservative….1 or 0…We are constantly asked to check off boxes that define us, put into lists, generate "raw" data…The data is conglomerated and studied..analyzed for its value. How much can be sold based on this data? How many people can we sway to our side? How much can we expect?
But, the very boxes we are asked to check off rarely encompass and define our true answers to these questions. Our answers are multilayered, have shades of gray (no association with the book intended), they are complex and sometimes hard to define. So, we pick the one that "best" represents ourselves, as we see it, and check a box. We are compiled into a list for an analyst to determine some type of conclusion about our life.
Our world is much more gray than we want to believe. We tend to want to put it into boxes of black or white; true or false; wrong or right…when really the there is a whole spectrum of grays and other colors that cannot be defined in this fashion. As we simplify our answers and our feelings and our experience, our feedback too becomes flatlined. You know you must fit into a box so you stop developing a sense of self beyond the binary. You define yourself by inconsequential and superficial things as you have been asked to do. You start to see the world as binary yourself and become bored, so you go to the magazine racks to again, define someone else's life as either "wrong" or "right." It may feel good at the time, but isn't there a part of you that knows there is more?
But, the very boxes we are asked to check off rarely encompass and define our true answers to these questions. Our answers are multilayered, have shades of gray (no association with the book intended), they are complex and sometimes hard to define. So, we pick the one that "best" represents ourselves, as we see it, and check a box. We are compiled into a list for an analyst to determine some type of conclusion about our life.
Our world is much more gray than we want to believe. We tend to want to put it into boxes of black or white; true or false; wrong or right…when really the there is a whole spectrum of grays and other colors that cannot be defined in this fashion. As we simplify our answers and our feelings and our experience, our feedback too becomes flatlined. You know you must fit into a box so you stop developing a sense of self beyond the binary. You define yourself by inconsequential and superficial things as you have been asked to do. You start to see the world as binary yourself and become bored, so you go to the magazine racks to again, define someone else's life as either "wrong" or "right." It may feel good at the time, but isn't there a part of you that knows there is more?
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