Fashutable

 

Subject: Fashutable.







It’s all very ‘fashutable’, a new word I devise to mean multiple fashions, multiple inputs multiple objectives, all fostered under one roof all living at the same address and all served by the same bus, ‘the internet’.

Having a ticket to ride is like undertaking a psychedelic trip, you never know where you will end up and in what state, it’s a risk and we are all at risk when we enter it’s labyrinth coils and expose of our minds to who knows what. The hate speech of an ideologue, the fixation of a racist, or the soothing meditative bells of a Buddhist calling you to realign  yourself.

The power of the internet was not fully realised when it was released on us in 1983, such a short time ago but an event which has changed the world in so many ways.

Our minds prior to that date were compartmentalised by our surroundings, our culture, our propensities, we were largely individual with a sense of worth attuned to our sense of self analysis. Today we are pummelled with thoughts and ideas, largely other peoples thoughts and ideas and all of them having nuggets of truth appropriate to their experience but difficult to accommodate within one’s own experience. The confusion cased by continually hip hopping from one idea to another, from one persons truism to your own is very destabilising. Everyone’s belief becomes yours for a second or so until it’s upended by the next and on reflection having gone through ‘the road to Damascus‘ 50 times in a day is it any wonder we seek therapy.

Of course each communion is a story and is real to someone even if it’s evil and full of hate. In the past we were insulated from it by the company we kept and ones parents were fussy about that. Today the good and the bad come flooding in over the doorstep as it were unannounced and part of the package from Virgin. How easy to drift off into someone else’s domain and find yourself caught up in a piece of fake news or make believe, encouraged to believe what we would never normally believe simply by the professionalism of the story telling.