Ire In The Age Of Doom-Posting, Pt. 3

Ire In The Age Of

Doom-Posting, Pt. 3

By Jon Hall

I’m sure at the end of my last entry, some were left questioning what I meant by the “old world” many have fled.

            The “old world”, as vague as it may sound, encompasses a very specific concept. The notion is complex and multi-faceted yet easily represented by the monolithic corporatocracies still standing over U.S. society like undead bastions of a vintage and distant time.

               

Consider this… we have found the secrets to eternal life and immortality, just not for us. Instead, the mascots and logos of the brands we buy will live forever and on.

               

Many speak of progress, but the “old world” has its name for a reason. For instance, another easy representation of the “old world” is Hollywood.

            Hollywood elite claim to be progressive and pioneering of social change. The reality is, the entertainment industry is a hive of manipulators and abusers hidden in plain sight, right under our noses.

            No true “activist” would have stood complicit and knowingly as such traumatic, gross abuses of powers occurred around them in the business. Someone focused a paycheck? Sure... but no activist with any ounce of integrity ever could have.

            Along with Hollywood, a large portion of “mainstream” media (movies, news, socials, television, video games, music) acts as the most versatile apparatus the “old world” has in their arsenal.

            Such “distractions”, mentioned in prior entries, that will occupy people’s minds and dampen any potential urges to think. After all, where’s the need to?

            The “old world” is all that and more. The “old world” is buying into fear, and hostility, and poison. It is the “Us Vs. Them” mentality baked into the headlines of major outlets like CNN or Fox News.

            An effective way in breaking through any programmed conditioning one’s mind might have fallen prey to is switching perspectives of thinking from a global or national level to an individual, personal one.

Face it, you can only change things you control. Duh, right?

            Going by this logic, what sense does it make to worry and stress your mind with unneeded, arbitrary information? You can’t control what the President is doing. Or what China is doing. You can’t control any violence or chaos, either, but it’s still soul-rending to be subjected to.

What you can control is the betterment of one’s self. Better habits, thoughts, and perspectives. Points-of-view not influenced by emotive-baiting headlines and reactionary social media, instead fostered on critical thinking as well as combating bias.

The ones fleeing from the “old world” understand one universal truth: everything has become arbitrary. Nowadays, we do things because we have to, and because we are told.

Down to how we spend our days, we are told to work to pay our bills so we do it. We buy and pay back into a broken system that benefits no average person (only the rich).

 

Is it any wonder of the exodus from this “modern” way of living?