MORPHEAL'S COMMENTARY - January 23, 2009 (Pope and Radio, Surveillance, Desperate Selling and Social Recession)
Robert Morpheal, Morphealism, Bob Ezergailis
Surveillance, Recession and Desperate Spending)
THE FIRST CYBER POPE:
It is somewhat strange that so many, including Pope Benedict XVI, have
chosen to launch programs into cyberspace. Perhaps many have forgotten
cyberspace remains accessible to relatively few elite of the world's
population. Mostly with short, often distracted and non cerebral,
attention spans. Radio remains a more universal potentially thoughtful
medium. Unfortunately now with few good thought provoking stations,
for meaningful content, beyond talk show rants and segways that
currently plague it.
I think that we need a resurgence of radio and its potential. Radio
has an immense potential for furthering oral, aural, culture. It
offers a profound balance against excessive emphasis upon the visual.
Our civilization and the functioning of society came about due to
sound. It is where the mind first expressed its thoughts, in sound,
and it is as fundamental to the universe as is light.
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S BLACKBERRY SECURITY WORRIES:
Security concerns about electronic communications are actually largely
an illusion. The Blackberry, or any computer system, is potentially no
less secure than a personal conversation. Surveillance technology has
outpaced ability to shield against its absolute total penetration of
any space, anywhere, short of an unattainable level of special
shielding. So we can forget about our security, privacy, concerns in
what has become a completely public world. Once that is realized
society will change. It will change because the new tools, necessary,
and available, to fight the growing wave of organized crime, and its
close relative, political terrorism, will be put to an end.
We are in an end game now, and the real evil will now begin to perish.
Whereas the tools involved have been utilized for trivial, and evil
purpose, to further prejudiced, narrow minded, sectarian, ideas,
inclusive of false spiritualities, the evils of political dialectic,
irrationality, false ideals, and a vast number of damaging and
destructive more trivial and often naive attitudes and practices for
the sake of a few against the many, those existing means must now be
directed to promote true ideals, preserve real liberties, to
facilitate genuine achievement and success rather than beating down
into the worst and lowest common denominators that only serve the
growth of crime and cynical despair, becoming the weapon they were
meant to become, for use against organized crime, against despair,
against the lowest common denominator, against what truly harms
society, and against the real threats of political terrorism, where
they will be completely and absolutely effective. They must begin to
serve the betterment of humanity, and the collective and individual
achievement of true potential, by their relentless attack upon what
seeks to undermine and destroy that potential. Only in that way can we
escape from the fate of the dystopias of “Brave New World” and “1984".
The error has consistently been paranoid fear of the very same tools
that can save us from what otherwise only leads to totalitarianism.
Totalitarianism must become understood as what it truly is. It is the
product of organized crime, corruption and terrorism. When those are
defeated so is totalitarianism equally defeated.
CANNOT SPEND THE WAY OUT OF RECESSION:
Governments must realize society cannot spend its way out of recession
and survive. That tactic will lead to another worse recession but
that is far from the only problem. There are deeper issues involved.
It will also lead to a continued worsening of social, psychological,
context, with a continued devaluing of the most important values of
any worthwhile and meaningful version of society. It will lead to
growing trends of deepening discontent, cynicism, pessimism and
outright outbursts of social violence.
Rebuilding of the economy must seek to create new, more meaningful,
opportunities. It must promote lasting values, in craftsmanship,
artisanship, carefulness, uniqueness, and real enhancements of human
life, not existing patterns of enforced isolation rewarded by short
lived things, equally disposable, in a depersonalized, existentially
emptied, social context. The fate of the thing, in our society, has
become the fate of the individual. Both have become too disposable,
and devalued.
Rebuilding of the economy must further real expressions of real
talents, and individuality, and it must begin to abandon excessive
tyrannical emphasis on mass produced “happiness”. It must return to
the “human potential” movement for its inspirations. That movement was
itself largely suppressed and beaten out, by oppression, since its
resurgence and roots in the 1960s.
The psychology of sales must change. Desperate selling to desperation,
built upon the essentially evil concepts, of increased social
divisiveness, increased deprecation of intimacy, increasing social
superficiality, increased depersonalization of all social
interconnections, increased brevity of any enjoyment, the making
hungry for something that cannot quite be attained, as some of the
primary evil mechanisms being used to further desperate dependence
upon the mass produced thing as a substitute for what is lost. The
losses have become too many. The situation as to desperate sales has
become so desperate that couples and families are being deliberately
torn apart, simply so that each will need to buy more, being unable to
share with each other. Even family values have increasingly under
attack, following the relentless assault on couples and love based
paired relations, because two do not need to spend as much as one.
More than two do not need to spend as much as two, in order to have
the same amount of things to use. Desperate selling divides purely for
the purpose of furthering the desperate marketing of more mass
production at the very expense of the entire social fabric itself. We
are in crisis as to the ability to form real, meaningful, paired
relationships, and to maintain family structures, against the
divisiveness being imposed by those few who are desperate to market
and sell more mass produced goods to more people.
Society itself is being utterly and completely destroyed by its
desperate belief in its need to place mass produced things ahead of
all other relations, and above all other forms of enjoyment in life.
We have reached a crisis that knows no parallel in human history. We
must call upon the doctors of sociology, of psychology, the radical
thinkers, who have already grappled with this issue and who have been
largely silenced since the 1960s when some became prophets of the
dangerous trends that were increasingly taking over, since the post
war boom that began in the 1950s.
Rebuilding the economy must become a rebuilding of society according
to ideals, not according to the increasingly dominant, all pervasive,
evils that have begun to consume and possess, slowly eating away at
humanity, and turning society into what will become an unendurable
hell.
Robert Morpheal