TikTok and the culture of memes, roll videos, and emotes
Yes, people are now reading pictures and watching short videos. Once upon a time, Facebook was for sharing texts and pictures, Instagram was for photos, WordPress and blogs for articles, YouTube was for videos, and Twitter was for politicians. With the advent of TikTok, things started to change. A short, several seconds long movie (the so-called rolls) has become a promoted standard everywhere. Facebook has announced that such a format and its clientele will be its business target.
Nowadays, wherever you go, on some news site, website or portal, you either have an insistent autoplay movie, or some podcast, law, Q&A, and so on. The culture of the written word is fading away, and the video can be turned on and it flies by itself, you don't have to get tired and you can pay attention to every other word.
The text requires concentration, and the speech also requires less attention. So we are no longer a meme culture, but a tribe of rolls and picture writing (emoticons). And one more thing - more people react to a picture with sensational-sounding content than to a calm graphic with a substantive article.
Is this not the mere synthesis of the madness of our civilization?
Madness. Everyone needs him. One reads in the official media, the other in the anti-system media, and both believe everything they read in them. If, of course, it agrees with the tendency and dogma generally accepted in these two circles. The third one drinks or is drugged, the fourth counts a miss after a miss, the fifth is aggressive and likes to shuffle people, another makes free overtime and does two for the national lowest, yet another is gambling, risky sports or is a fan of another hobby.
All mankind is crazy, and according to the mystic Robert Anton Wilson, in this civilization turmoil, the monologues of all freaks, madmen, paranoid schizophrenics, and fools deserve the most attention. Well, I won't say, I'm very flattered.
One may even be tempted to repeat the esoteric statement that all human activities related to the sphere of the senses are an illusion. So also madness. This also includes our thoughts swirling in the head, a large part, if not all, of which is so-called a** thoughts. Both literally and figuratively.
Life as a theater of masks, a ship of fools, illusion, and madness:
Going further: all our hustle and bustle in life, that is, activity (being a madness related to senses, thoughts, and actions), has the opposite of:
1️⃣ Total, Non-Trance Zen / Non-Duality Meditation (i.e. Total Awareness)
2️⃣ Or total catatonia and then death (i.e. total ignorance)
It is worth having a middle ground while we are still alive. The radical Gnostic will say that it is madness to live in a cage of baryon and non-baryon matter created by the Architect Demiurge in general. He will want to get out of it.
Unconsciousness Gaining Consciousness
For me, the greatest madness is to combine being active with low awareness. Because then the whole couple will go on the whistle. So then you spend a lot of energy and the result is little, no, or even negative. Consciousness consists of many factors, it is multifaceted, and it is worth raising it as much as possible.
Because then you can create your value in this world with less energy and with more results.
I'm not going to fight the system or discover the truth. Because, first of all, everyone interprets it differently, being immersed in the everyday wheel of the senses. Secondly, what I'm doing now is playing with forms, shapes, and conventions. I research, analyze, observe, and combine/synthesize various pieces of reality, looking for the perennial philosophy there, i.e. bridges between them and common fragments. Then I share it with you, the recipient. You to research, analyze and observe my content, and of course, guess it through your own filters of worldly illusion. Just like me and all of us.
What is your madness?
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