“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” ~ 📝Blaise Pascal
Long before 📝COVID-19 became a pandemic, 📝Authoritarian Technology has been "co-opting our need for human connection and a desire for convenience in the pursuit of corporate and technological dominance" said internet pioneer, 📝Judy Estrin.
For years, companies like 📝Netflix have been converting our 📝Spiritual Capital (attention) into 📝Financial Capital (money). Now that we're trapped by safer-at-home orders, we seek escape and wander into another danger—not a biological virus, an energetic one. When we seek escape from the woes of the world in the 📝consumption of content, we allow ourselves to be consumed.
To truly escape 📝Norbert Wiener's "📝Human Use of Human Beings" in the 1950s, we must look elsewhere for an answer. 📝The only way out, is in. "We must not consume our culture, we must create out culture," 📝Terence Mckenna urged in 📝The Felt Presence of Direct Experience
Now, more than ever, we must escape inwards. 📝Reclaim Agency and seek 📝true nature.