Having grown up in the Age of the Internet…. (Windows 95 and AOL hit when I was in the 4th grade) I feel qualified to speak on how technology has both integrated society and simultaneously ripped it apart… I honestly wish that the integration of technology into our daily lives would have benevolently assisted humanity and on some level, I guess it has set us free. Intellectually speaking I think there has never been a better time to be alive in modern technological history.
But emotionally, this might be one of the most painful times in human history. If you haven’t noticed the family and societal problems all around you, I’m here to tell you that they are very real, and very painful. Broken homes are the new norm, young people routinely have sex with one another before they know each other’s last name. Self-Sadism is at an all-time high. Addictions of all kinds are off the charts, emotional suppression through antidepressants affects 50 million plus people. Entire swathes of people in tech society are unable to effectively communicate with one another outside of the internet, or their smartphone… (A point that has been beaten to death)
But I’m not here to rehash old theories of how technology is causing the disintegration of society because I think that technology is showing people first hand the covert, and overt dark side of society; which is a very healthy thing. As sometimes you have to trudge through the dark side of life to get to the light. It may be ugly, but the mass influx of pornography and the conspiracy movement show people first hand the darkness that is occurring in the superconsciousness of the planet. People use each other as slaves to their own personal gratification, and we look at others from a disconnected, digital phantom perspective…
What do I mean by that? Well, I mean that we see each other as not real, digital ghosts if you will. This is part of the training happening through the mass influx of media into the mind. Everything becomes fiction, and we shut down normal emotional responses because the Television and Computer have trained us to not have a reciprocal emotional response to what we are seeing. Television and most other digital content end up being a one-way medium. Where we consume but give nothing back… When there is no creative or emotional release of this dark digital content, repression occurs, and it’s a hard habit to break. People in the business world are especially guilty of this… That’s why I speak about it in my newest book at length…
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Point being, If we cannot connect to one another as humans, then we are forced to connect to each other as robots… How would Robots interact? Well perhaps they would be wheeling around town, and plugging into one another to download information, share information and compile data. Sadly this is what most human relationships are turning into. People have not figured out how to have meaningful relationships with one another because they are responding to one another in a strictly surface level, creating a “give me mine, and move on” type of interaction system.
Technology doesn’t have to affect us like this, but until people start looking inside themselves for the answers, we will have a really hard time trying to reverse this cycle. With the entire crop of new business leaders worshiping Steve Jobs and Elon Musk like some kind of collective technological messiahs, we are in grave danger of shutting down our human emotional inputs completely and totally.
This trend could easily be reversed by integrating nature back into everyone’s daily routine. A large part of our societal disconnection comes from our lack of interaction with nature in our daily lives… I generally recommend that my clients take an hour or so a day, to themselves to walk barefoot (weather permitting) or do some form of nature-oriented exercises… Because what are we without nature? Obviously building more cubicles won’t solve this problem. Nor do you see animals acting in this neurotic emotionally disconnected nature. So let’s take a page out of their book and start to connect meaningfully back to ourselves, and the basic building blocks of life. Because we shouldn’t have to think all day every day, a still mind is an open one…
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Sincerely,
Austin Muhs
