Subject: The ‘now’.


Has the immediacy of news made us reject the ‘personal now’. As we walk around with our heads parked into our phone travelling the super highway instead of the suburban road, we start to loose our identity in exchange for an overview of everyone else’s experience.
The ‘chaos theory’ which makes up the natural world and the natural disasters which break out seemingly mimicking the human disasters, (for which we are often the authors). The buzz we feel by prying into everyone else’s world instead of valuing our own, of envying what others are doing rather than our own achievements.  Why didn’t I start to play golf or ask Mary Jane on that date all those years ago.  The ‘what ifs’ in life which are pointless since we are where we are.
If we were lucky and I know we largely make are own luck, we look back on possibly small successes each at the time significant but perhaps in comparison to say your friends and contemporaries small beer. Success often comes at a price of time and effort and the exclusion of people who didn’t fit your plan,( that’s if you had one). The exclusion of people who didn’t fit the stereotype of your lifestyle and the uniformity which that causes with the danger of the sterility of ‘group think’, so evident today as people choose their ‘news source’ to the exclusion of all else. The way these choices bind our thinking often into taking extreme positions, where views are more hostile and not supportive of society as a whole.
How do we cultivate a more beguine culture where even hostility can be picked apart and seen as nothing much more than frustration. Why have we become so demonstrably demanding, so irritated by the other persons viewpoint, is it due to the irredeemable breadth of cultural diversity in the county now turned into a hot house of new species where interbreeding has thrown up irreconcilable people.