BABEL WORLD

It seems almost anything can be real now with thousands feeling convinced about theories concerning all manner of subjects and issues. Views of all kinds swirl in a hurricane of urgency pushing diverse notions demanding attention. It appears necessary to be convinced by something, almost anything, to assuage the confusion of modern life, whether it has been investigated in depth or more likely is simply a product of the shallowest butterfly info-feeding and headline surfing.

Study of subjects in depth has become an ever greater rarity in an age devoted to the fleeting image, the 24 hour news cycle and momentary, attention-grabbing info-bytes. However... no matter how vacuous the thought all this data inspires, it joins all others in a hurricane of speculation where almost everyone is now an expert able to reveal “the truth”.

The world is turning fast into an all-embracing mirage of alternate factoids with the internet and television becoming more real than what we used to know of 'everyday life’. The interior world is taking over within our dens of isolation where the kaleidoscope machine dominates, whether laptop, cell phone or TV screen. These have become the dominant portals to access a much more virtual existence within our narrowed, Covid lockdown lives.

The subconscious has been stimulated to grow in influence during this past year when we’ve been forced to withdraw from the wider world. Our intake of images and fictional portrayals have automatically beckoned our interior world to emerge and take the place of the outer one. Meanwhile, the propensity of all news entities to emphasize the dramatic, the negative and the fear-generating creates an ever-greater atmosphere of incipient doom.

Instead of acting as a unifying and consoling influence in the global crisis politicians squabble and point fingers at each other, diverging on almost every possible issue, drawing ever further apart, adding to the feeling that all hope may be lost of anything like normality re-emerging.

We have never been more isolated and fearful than now. We have never been so bombarded with hurricanes of assertion, speculation and opinion as now, with as little trust in any of it. Each faction seeks its own “truth” to be acknowledged and accepted as objective truth while it competes with every other faction doing the same. So-called official truths from politicians and government narrative-controllers have never been as skeptically received as they are now by so many. Conversely, the probable majority remain glued in obedience to outlets previously known to lie profusely, such as the CIA.

We feel that at any moment terrible events may occur while all seems to be slipping out of control into the hands of deceivers and manipulators who push official narratives designed to gain our consent for abhorrent acts. We feel spied upon from numerous sources, fed dubious stories from all sides seeking to exert dominant influence. From every angle and each direction a message is aimed at us wishing to mold our minds in one way or another. As our world becomes less solid reality begins to shimmer threatening to draw malevolent ghosts from our subconscious minds.

Reality is dissolving in a swirling mist of messages wishing to distract us, pulling us in their favored direction, exploiting us in our most vulnerable ever condition, drifting down into the techno-sphere that is Babel World.