Chaos begets order begets...

Chaos and on and on...

The universe in all of its wonder is designed by chaos begets order begets chaos.

It seems over the past few years of this Covid chaos, we have reached or are certainly reaching our own individual places of doneness. Between the left and the right, the to and the fro, the back and the forth, the mis and the dis information, we have come to a place of “just let this all endness.”

Many people are reaching their point of no return. Millions of people have actually reached a point of not returning at all due to their death. There are discrepancies on the system labeling all of those deaths as all being Covid. There are discrepancies of the big brother affect of mandatory vaccines and governmental over reach of a citizens right to health. There are discrepancies on if, when or what kind of masks to wear and when, if and what they might actually do for the effectiveness of viral management. Anxiety, depression, sadness, loneliness has befallen many.

Most recently we have all heard of the Joe Rogan v Neil Young skirmish that has dominated the news. Now, whatever your position is on Joe Rogan or Neil Young, unless you actually and intimately know either of them, your position has been skewed by the corporate media of either side of the political isle, as well as, the AI of information dissemination to your social media feeds or inboxes.

If you are on the political right of society you are being fed an artificially skewed one sided reality that Neil Young and the system are trying to take down the Constitutional free speech rights of Joe Rogan and his right to say what he wishes on his podcast program. Or perhaps your thoughts are skewed by the information feed that makes you sit with the idea that the left is using this situation as a platform to shine a negative light to the mis or dis information that Joe Rogan, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and others seemingly provide in their talking head monologues. You might be being told that Dr. Fauci is a facist and President Joe Biden is a communist. You may also be being fed the sainthood perception of the former president and how he is being hunted down in a witch hunt and disgraced for his attempt to “Make America Great Again.”

If you are on the political left side of society you might be fed an artificially skewed one sided reality of Joe Rogan, along with Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and many other talking heads are just constantly feeding lies and dis information and creating social upheaval and chaos. Your social media feeds might include the seemingly distorted views of Rand Paul and Robert Kennedy, Jr., along with the sainted position of Dr. Fauci. You are being told that President Biden was handed a shit show and he has been cleaning up the mess left by his doubly impeached and morally corrupt predecessor. You are also being fed the uncovering of a massive amount of testimony, documents, texts, and memos of the corrupt and moral decrepitude of the former president.

My point thus far is that we are all being fed a different reality by technology. There is no real to reality any longer. We can now say that we have had a reality TV show host become President of the United States. We can also state that we now have had his lawyer and the former mayor of New York City act as a failed contestant on a reality show called The Masked Singer.

Ever since Reagan’s removal of the Fairness Doctrine and the deregulation and media consolidation during the Clinton administration we have gone from 50 corporations controlling a vast majority of all of the major news outlets to as little as 6 corporations in the year 2004. Since then, through the invention of the internet, the world wide web and the development of social media and information companies, coupled with their use of our private information and artificial intelligence software, we are being fed very specific information and a controlled reality that AI software from companies like Cambridge Analytica have decided, based on our over 5000 point data profile, who we are, what we think, and what we want to see, think, feel, know, and discuss.

We are living in very controlled realities. What we are being fed as that reality varies from country, to states, to regions, to cities, to neighborhoods, to households, to IP addresses, to individual search results based on the user profile. There is no sense of a real in reality that is the same from one as the other even in your own household. This has created the largest chasm between the rich and the poor, the sick and the healthy, the vaxxed and the unvaxxed, the left and the right all around the world.

Stanley Milgram’s famous 1967 study of social conditioning, human mind manipulation and control, and obedience to authority conducted at Yale University give us pause as to what has been going on to us and our society for over 50 years.

STOP! Take some time away from technology. Step back and breathe. I mean, take the time to subscribe and read my posts, and then take the time away from technology! Go out and dig in the dirt. Plant your garden. Meditate. Pray. Walk in nature or on the beach. Para-glide.

I tried para-gliding last week. Krista and I went out to the coast to Bodega Bay, CA. We met up with our friend, Anthony, who happens to be one of the best para-gliders in the country. After watching him and a few other pilots fly for a while, Krista did a tandem flight with him (see below). I drove down the mountain and picked them up from their beautiful landing on the beach. Then, Anthony asked me if I was up for it to which I agreed. I have been wanting to for a while now after watching them do their craft in various locations. I have been the pick up and retrieve driver. This was a chance to give it a shot. It was later in the afternoon at this point and the wind had been picking up. Once Anthony got me strapped in and he bellowed up the kite the wind came up and took us for a ride…backwards. We got tossed around a bit and pulled all across the take off site area. I’m sure we resembled a couple of cockroaches flailing around the ground with their legs in the air. Humbled and a bit dusty we decided that caution was the better part of valor for the day. So, we all went and got some clam chowder.

Ok, back to the point. We have reached a dangerous place in the evolution of the human species. We have reached a point where no human has been before. We are in a time where an AI intelligent and learning software knows more about you and your thoughts than you do. And we have all let it happen. We have all helped it happen and its exponential growth.

Recently, on some Zoom calls, I noticed how people were hesitant to chime in, ask questions or participate. I also noticed how people have distanced themselves from their family, friends and neighbors. Partially due to Covid, partially due to politics, partially due to social media creating a false presentation of one’s reality to another. We have become distant to each other. I have also noticed the responses I have received from readers from posts recently. It seems people are welcoming good stories. People are looking for inspiration and want to feel good again.

We must heal our woes. I have taken steps to distance myself from social media and have instead filled my life with more reading and discussions with friends and family. I have removed myself more often from the phone and screen to create a more integral life with my home and my surroundings. My recent marriage has given me reason to sit and talk and experience life with my wife and help to reduce strife.

Tonight I am meeting to rehearse with my band, The Ring. We have been playing together since 1989. Although, due to Covid, we haven’t played for two years as a band. I have been doing writing sessions with the drummer, and sometimes the bass player during this time. We are working on our next album and have completed 14 new songs. For tonight’s rehearsal we will be getting ready for an upcoming private benefit concert coming up in March.

I know, for all intense and purposes, this blog is fairly new. Sometimes new things make people a bit uneasy. However, I will add that there are over 16K of you that subscribe to this blog and have been reading my older blogs for years. It would be great for us all to create a community where we are able to share ideas without the chaos or manipulation of the algorithms of Facebook, TikTok or Instagram or whatever.

I would like to see and welcome your comments and concerns. I would enjoy hearing from you and hear what your feelings are about how we can make our society a more healthy place to live. I am opening the settings to allow all readers to submit comments to this post. I hope to hear from you and let’s get some healing started.

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