I am at times amazed at the versatility of this universe and the human mind. I am a strong believer in the Kant's ideology of mind and the way it perceives the external. I would like to be sure though and my struggle is in that direction precisely.
There are so many things going on in this world at the same time that for an outside observer it all might just feel like a silent movie played on screen. I was thinking earlier this morning if God were to be an observer to these happenings he must be pretty amused at all these tiny creatures moving here and there and doing all sorts of things on this screen we can call the earth. Must get pretty boring for him too, but I am sure He has more interesting things ready for Him. But then again I don't believe in God of material and matter so all this thought boils down to my own idea of perceiving this world. It is Infact one of my yearnings to sit outside this frame of reference and see things happening from there. I guess all of us have this.
This is how media screws us over. Trying to give our nascent and naive thoughts a twist and bend in its preferred direction. But then again media is something created by us. No satan did descend to give it to us. Then why should we fear its onslaught. This again boils down to the frame of reference. Since we can't think outside our brains therefore we will tend to give any force an approximate value. We tend to give the force of media substantially high value in qualitative terms. We let it influence us and rightly so. There is no other single thing in the life of a human being today that is closer to him/her than media. It chases us down into most private of places. So it is only natural that we are heavily influenced by it too.
Another thought could be that we as humans have always feared making a machine that will overcome and over power us one day. Almost everyone subscribe to the theories offered by movies such as iRobot and the likes. Maybe while we were busy, subconsciously, trying to avert this fate through computers and machines that in the meanwhile media did take us over. Maybe media used this decoy and spread the false word so that we can be fooled. Maybe media is that menace we have been so fearing in robots and machines. Maybe it is the technology that has grown self sufficient and replicating. Maybe this is one thing that has grown out of our control. Maybe we have already lost the battle. So now when you step outside and you gaze wanders to a billboard beware this is ENEMY!
There are so many things going on in this world at the same time that for an outside observer it all might just feel like a silent movie played on screen. I was thinking earlier this morning if God were to be an observer to these happenings he must be pretty amused at all these tiny creatures moving here and there and doing all sorts of things on this screen we can call the earth. Must get pretty boring for him too, but I am sure He has more interesting things ready for Him. But then again I don't believe in God of material and matter so all this thought boils down to my own idea of perceiving this world. It is Infact one of my yearnings to sit outside this frame of reference and see things happening from there. I guess all of us have this.
This is how media screws us over. Trying to give our nascent and naive thoughts a twist and bend in its preferred direction. But then again media is something created by us. No satan did descend to give it to us. Then why should we fear its onslaught. This again boils down to the frame of reference. Since we can't think outside our brains therefore we will tend to give any force an approximate value. We tend to give the force of media substantially high value in qualitative terms. We let it influence us and rightly so. There is no other single thing in the life of a human being today that is closer to him/her than media. It chases us down into most private of places. So it is only natural that we are heavily influenced by it too.
Another thought could be that we as humans have always feared making a machine that will overcome and over power us one day. Almost everyone subscribe to the theories offered by movies such as iRobot and the likes. Maybe while we were busy, subconsciously, trying to avert this fate through computers and machines that in the meanwhile media did take us over. Maybe media used this decoy and spread the false word so that we can be fooled. Maybe media is that menace we have been so fearing in robots and machines. Maybe it is the technology that has grown self sufficient and replicating. Maybe this is one thing that has grown out of our control. Maybe we have already lost the battle. So now when you step outside and you gaze wanders to a billboard beware this is ENEMY!
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