Voiding and Avoiding the Void

I have been writing about this stuff for decades, yet I have never (as far as I know) put it quite that way. Why do I put it that way now?

It’s actually not me — it’s other people. Every day I see people saying they are putting this or that or whatever “out into the void”. I think the reason they say this is because they feel extremely small and insignificant. They seem to have never seen “Coach Carter” or heard Marianne Williamson’s very fine quote in it.

source: Oscar the Grouch [ https://www.deviantart.com/username0hi0/art/Oscar-the-Grouch-162013804 ]

They seem to feel more like Oscar the Grouch — and who can blame them? Increasingly, the world we live in is becoming ever more a world in which there is less and less future, and the present is becoming ever more a struggle, a turmoil in which we increasingly fight with our own families, wars and disease spread and blanket the Earth, and a future void almost appears somewhat like a safe harbor or refuge.

Like I said: that’s not my world. It’s an imaginary space envisioned by many who seem to lack the necessary literacy skills to be able to articulate and address the world of rational media. So instead they seek refuge inside a dreamy wonder-world of irrational media. [1]

This week I revisited a very fine articulation of the present state of affairs — see “Fighting the Good Fight” [ https://podcasts.video.blog/2024/09/18/fighting-the-good-fight ] for my gut reaction (and some following thoughts 😉 ). I too am increasingly frustrated with propaganda campaigns that seek to stupify the vast populations of people continually paying attention to so-called “mass media” … even though these bogus enterprises have repeatedly become disqualified time and again in recent years and decades. [2] Just about a week ago I yet again dragged myself out of bed on a Sunday morning to debate such a topic on a local radio program … and I fear that my comments may very well be censored by the local authorities who do not wish to have their mainstreaming enterprises questioned or disrespected in any way. In any case, the event was recorded and will be broadcast (whether cleansed or not [3]) in about a month (so in other words: long after the “fact”, and therefore by and large forgotten altogether).