Have you noticed lately that when a fire alarm sounds, people don’t readily rush out? At least, I have. People look around to determine how other people are reacting. And, if people in some position of authority or access to knowledge, keep going about their business, everyone stays put. As a whole, we determine whether to respond to an alarm that could save us, by relying on how others react. I’d say that is a bit of herd mentality.
Just recently, I was at an airport lounge where the alarm went off with loud noices and flashing lights. And, no one was alarmed. Some, including myself, looked around and even got up for a second. Eventually, most just sat back and drank their coffee or other beverage of choice. There was nothing wrong other than a bothersome alarm.
Now, there is an example of a larger existential (perhaps) societal problem. Which alarms to we listen to and can’t we figure that out on own own? There is so much gaslighting at the moment and so many truths that are twisted for convenience and sheep herding reasins, that sounding the alarm really does mean much. Nor, may it amount to much. Now instead of an alarm, we really need to see the smoke for ourselves. And, even then it could just be a smoke machine.
Categories: Culture, current events, identity, Leadership, mental health, Psychology, society, workplace
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Not that much different from people looking to their social bubbles to see what their political views should be. Or a dozen people looking at a serious accident but nobody calling 911 or going to assist.
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At a job I had years ago, we had a fire drill. When the alarm went off and people prepared to leave the building, the executive in charge of the department came out of her office and told everyone to sit down because “we don’t have time for fire”. A few years later I was working at a different company and when the alarm went off, I stayed at my desk because I figured we didn’t have time for fire. At least I did until I had the so-called floor warden yelling at me to leave. That actually wasn’t a drill. There was a small fire on one of the floors in the building and apparently the department I was in there did have time for fire. Still, I always hesitate and question whether I should leave when the alarm goes off.
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“When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful
A miracle, oh, it was beautiful, magical
And all the birds in the trees, well they’d be singing so happily
Oh, joyfully, oh, playfully watching me
But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible
Logical, oh, responsible, practical
Then they showed me a world where I could be so dependable
Oh, clinical, oh, intellectual, cynical”
A Few Lines From ‘The Logical Song’ By ‘Super Tramp’
From A First Year of Serious Depression i Experienced
After A Break-up With A First Cuban-American Love in 1979
i’m Not Sure if it is the Size of my Fredenstein Forehead as
i Did Wear Just About the Biggest Size Cap That Went With
my Gown For High School Graduation True A Sign of Course
Tying With my Best FRiEnD Lynn She 11 and me 11 out of A Class
of 381 Indicating A Propensity For Achievement in Systemizing Mind
Data Download
Ways of Mechanical
Cognition Suitable Perhaps
To Fit in as a Well Oiled Part
of the Machine of Culture As Is Then
However What Good Is a Computer Without
A Soul Only Left With Mechanical Cognition So
Devoid in Deficit of Social-Empathic-Artistic-Real
Emotional Spiritual Moving Connecting Co-Creating
Intelligence That Truly Colors Life With Feelings and Senses
In Art ToGeTHeR THAT YES PUTS EXISTENCE TOGETHER
Instead of Just Taking
It All Apart And Laying
It On A Table After You
Remember The Parts Yet
Never Putting Them Together Again Now
Indeed When And Where You No Longer Identify
With Wings of A Bird Flown By Wind And Fins of A Fish
Swum By Currents of Streams Through Rip Currents of Beach
‘They’ Say That Somehow Humanity is Set above the Other Animals
As We May Be Enlightened Someway They Can’t Yet i Disagree Being
Full of LiGHT is Being Fully Embodied in Touch And Feel With Senses
And Feelings Head to Toe and So Much More Yes as the Other Animals
Who Are Wild and Free Don’t Suffer From A Greatest Human Cultural
Clothes and Tool Disease of NDD Yes Nature Deficit Disorder For Real
As Indeed We aRe
Increasingly Even Becoming
Our Tools Even Separated From
the Person Standing Next to Us
Who Has Eyes more Than Without A Face
Normally the Other Wild and Free Animals
LiVE iN Balancing Force With the Rest of Nature
Through and Through And There is Never Any Question
of Words As to Whether Or Not ‘They’ Are Inseparable From
The Rest Of Nature There is No Written Or Multiple Choice Test
Of Being Whole Never Separated Living Free With the Rest of Nature Real
Best Of Course
In Mind and
Body Balancing
Force Of Loving All
Life So HeART SPiRiT SoUL FelT…
Indeed my FRiEnD Missing The Art Song
of HeART SPiRiT SoUL Winging Free
No Longer So Very Trapped in
Wearing Human Clothes of
Tools with attention
Spans in Distraction
As Assessed by Science
In Less than 3 Seconds Yes
Literally Less A Frigging Gold Fish
Humans Are Social Animals Indeed ‘We’
Will Bond and Bind Over Whatever The Group
Think of the Crowd Around Us Defines As Our Reality Next…
Or We Want And Will Continue to Drop the Logical Song off
At The Dry Cleaners Or Leave It in A Hot Car With the Windows
Rolled Up Losing
Our Child of Creating
in Wonder And Awe of Life
Even In A Death Hunt For Life
To Survive As We May Pay Attention
to the Capture of Prey With Very Left
Hemisphere Mind Processes of Existence Yet
Leave the Right Hemisphere Part of Attention
As Well Described by Oxford Literary Scholar,
Psychiatrist, Researcher, And Writer Iain McGilchrist;
Yes, Losing Sight of the Big Picture Further From the Hunt
Of LiFE That requires Attention in Bigger Picture Ways Lest
We Don’t notice
The Tiger in the
Environment And
Get Eaten by The Tiger
As We Water/Feed Our Colorful Flowers
Grasping What Is Small Taking it Apart Now
The Youngest Generation is Among the Most
Depressed and Anxious in Our General Population
Indeed A Fire Alarm Going Off About Our Future Existence…
And The Fact That Part of Our Country Still Supports A Proven
Flim-Flam Man For Leader of A So-Called Free World Meanwhile
Naked Birds Are Still Flying And Fish Are Still Swimming Masters of the
Winds and Ocean Tides my FRiEnD Living in Balance With Nature As Nature
So Enlightening
Moving Connecting
Co-Creating Without
Even A Millstone Of Humanified
Human Tools of Clothes to Wear
And of Course NaTuRE ALL Round Us
Is Sounding Alarms For How Far AWay We’ve Fallen…
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