December 24, 2024
Appling potentiality and actuality to the economy reveals a nature of reality.
A commercialized industry does not exist without consumers keeping it fed and alive. For example, if everyone stopped purchasing “socks,” there would be no need or substantial benefit to produce socks. How does the economy shape reality?
Commercialization is possible by demand. The demand for a necessity like penicilin is very different than the demand for coffee, yet they are both drugs. What implications does a commericalized product have about the society demanding it?
There is the physical and abstract understanding of concepts. The way I understand freedom as a physical concept and embodied experience is very different from the way I experience it as an abstract concept.
The power of dispensable income proports the commercialization of unnecessary products. A lack of knowldege about process and misdirected notion of aesthetics creates trends and short-term innovations, that satisfy short-term pelasure compared to critical long-term, intergenerational benefits.
For example, the commercializaton of the sex industry and the booming profitability of athleisure demonstrate a transcendal urge. An urge that fogs reality in preference for the imagination. A misgrounded spiritual or disembodied cognition is a dissects us form the intergenerational bigger impact. Connectivity to other life and environment is abandoned in the pretenses to mass consumerism.
Would these industries exist if the mass public had a holistic understanding of process, quality, and degradation? “One’s freedom is another’s unfreedom” however it is abandoned from our peripheral by being made invsible. The freedom and feeling of power that emulates from accessible products and the pyschological understanding of dispensible income separates us.
We are performing to exist when we particpate in trends. These things are only real if we make them real.
What is it about being heard or seen that is so significant? What is significant about not being seen and not being heard. How does personal reality resemble a liminal and inbetween state of these two by thought?
The way we participate in the economy is a mimetic reality. A purchase is a transaction is a give/take and an ebb/flow.
It is in the nature of readily accessible resources that we lose sight of process. We do not see how something is built or created, therefore lacking an understanding of process that is integral to making critical, ethical considerations.
This is when reality is a figment. The perceived and unperceived inform the reality of an individual. Tension resulting from the combination of two disharmonious or unsuitable elements creates the ontological. What exists between the percevied and unpercevied, but thought? Thought is shaped by the formulaic pattern of what we see and what we do not see. What we experience and do not experience substantiates our existence.
An architectural example of mimeis is the nature of symmetry in our everyday peripheral. The nature of symmetry pronounces itself in Western aesthetics in buildings, objects,
One of the primary cons of artificial intelligence in debates, is “quality,” “authenticity,” and “ethical considerations”
Is this an analysis on the process of the economy?
A commercialized industry does not exist without consumers keeping it fed and alive. What does a commercialized product suggest about the society demanding it? For example, if everyone stopped purchasing “socks,” there would be no need or substantial benefit to produce socks. When Starbucks sued the Starbucks Workers United Union for expressing solidarity with Palestinians, based on “irreparable harm” on intellectual property rights, it led to a boycott costing the company 11 billion dollars since November 16, 2023. Commercialization is possible and sustained by demand. In this case, the economy is mimetic to mass conceptions of reality.
The invisibility of process and ignorance about production perpetuates cognitive dissonance, insulating privileged perspectives from the brutal realities that enable comfort and stability. Mass consumerism values visually appeal over integrity in the process. Such distortions exemplify a constructivist ideal where our aesthetic choices often embody aspirations to an imagined order, harmony, or cohesion. Yet, these choices uphold institutions and systems that thrive on dehumanization and environmental exploitation.
The nature of an economy
In contemporary society, the consumption of images and videos vastly outpaces engagement with direct interpersonal connections. Media algorithms inundate us with curated imagery and narratives, idealizing beauty, form, and order while desensitizing us to the ecological and societal consequences of colonialist legacies. Justin E.H. Smith, in The Internet, Is Not What You Think It Is, argues that fleeting attention spans, exploited by economic interests, mask a profound existential transformation where we are currently transitioning “into a new form of life.” Rapid consumption of visual media reinforces disingenuous engagement with life, prioritizing short-term pleasure. Artificial interaction fosters cognitive dissonance, detaching us from the material consequences of our consumption and silence, which perpetuates a colonialist future. Visual media's overwhelming presence reshapes our engagement with reality like never before.
What is crucial to consider, is what our feeds and consumption oura. Reflection of us and our choices and “friends” choices online. It truly matters how you use the technology. Escapism is a detachment that discourages critical reckoning with deeper truths and systemic realities. Digital transformation of social, economic, and political landscapes strengthens the conceptual ideal of mind and body as separate. Reality is now influenced by the abstract nature of screens, which are oversaturated with entertainment and violence, so viewers are increasingly desensitized to mimetic reproductions of reality. Aspirational and idealized material aesthetics, often at odds with the lived experience, are mediated through sensory engagement and valorized as forms of escapism. However, aspirational and idealized material aesthetics frequently conflict with lived experience, serving as vehicles of escapism rather than liberation.
December 23, 2024
It has been adults and mentors 65 and older that influenced me to question multitasking. They say it does not work. Seño Mary Louise Castille taught me spanish in high school. I wish I could sit in her class again today as I am now. Raymond Hoche-Mong, my 93 year old roommate. We sip port and he teaches me about process, methodology, and values.
As I reflect on the pressure of speed upon our decision making, I wonder if multitasking is an evolutionary reality. Multitasking is a skill, nonetheless. Short form learning with condensed sessions of longterm focus on one topic. Meandering between managing and performing everyday reality. Is there a life of successfully multitasking?
I think it already exists, as delegation work. Any labor extends out of someone else. For example, purchasing house cleaners.
Symmetry is in everything. We have built a symmetrical world. Disbanding imbalance.
We realized that we can manipulate reality by a long history of consuming what we are. The power of influence, communication, and persuasion is how we build different realities.
Literacy rates in America. The diction and rhetoric of the president elect. Proposed tax plan.
What we express and do not express mirror each other.
This is where my discussion of acutality and potentiality emerges.
December 20 2024
It is 10:34 am and Rachel Barr @drrachelbarr is talking about the debate between digital and paper notetaking in an Instagram reel. She presents a larger reality to think about. Slow down what your brain is consuming. According to Dr. Rachel Barr slowing your intake of information improves long term memory reception.
This is an incredibly difficult thing for people to accomplish today. When you consider the amount of sensory stimulus that is normalized for the average person, we are forced to reckon with a new nature. A nature of rapid consumption rates.
Our demise is the skiddish habit of moving too fast. To spend a lot of money you have to make a lot of money. To know a lot you need to learn a lot. Being real is often substantiated by being perceived. The pace of consumption is contstrained by time and we cannot agree on our nature.
To make mass profits to need to make mass sales.
Consumption is resource usage. Energy, Elements, Products, Information, and Space are examples of thinks we “consume” on a daily basis. The pace of that intake is the area I am interested in exploring. I think the nature of sustainability is in the relationship between sensorial perception and sensorial expression.
How does perception influence what we express? If it is better for our brains to slow down what we are learning, to improve long term memory reception, what are the consequences of moving too fast? Is this a conversation about a loss of critical thinking. What happens to a students long term memory when they “crams” in high school to meet the pace of a straight A performance?
It is possible to live between many worlds. What breeds from in between the expressed and the unexpressed? The liminal space between what we do and what we conceal is filled by thought. What influences thought?
How are we still abiding by the tradition of the physical and spiritual? In what ways does it reflect in contemporary technology, economies and lifestyles? How are we losing a holisitic understanding of self by fixating on and an internal and external existence?
“You should know by now that a man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.” Carlos Castaneda, A Separate Reality: Futher Conversations with Don Juan P. 85
“He was crushed by rocks while working in the construction of the Pan-American Highway. My acts toward him at the moment of his death were controlled folly... I stood there too, but I did not look. I shifted my eyes so I would see his personal life disintegrating, expanding uncontrollably beyond its limts, like a fog of crystals, because that is the way life and death mix and expand.” Carlos Castaneda, A Separate Reality: Futher Conversations with Don Juan p. 91
personal + internal
impersonal + external
not expressed | unperceived
expressed | perceived
The methodology of surviving mirrors the pace of living. Aesthetics become an unrequited love because we cannot understand the depth of our greed.
“In 2018, 88% of American teens ages thirteen to seventeen had access to a mobile phone, and 73% had smartphones, according to the Pew Research Center. 92% were going online from a mobile device daily, and 45% of teens now say they are online on a near-constant basis. Teenage girls use social media sites and platforms - particularly visually-oriented ones-for sharing more than their male counterparts do.” https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2018/05/31/teens-social-media-technology-2018/ p. 10
There are 14 new brain disorders in the DSM-5 in the 21st century https://www.aifc.com.au/14-new-disorders-in-the-dsm-5/
When you think about the amount of stimulus and information that is increased by mobile and desktop usage.