I want to talk about a grave subject. Life is a Life and Death. Death is a Life and Death.
Death is not Entertainment. Death is not Entertaining. It has become extremely clear to us all it is not fun to die. We cover up, we stay home. We fear. Now that every Hollywood Director’s dream has become a reality. Remember all the disaster movies, all the zombies, all the falling and explosions and buildings blowing up, all the shootings and gratuitous violence has come to haunt us like a shadow. If that Hollywood Director comes to New York they will not need a set.
We have stopped going to the movies to experience great things, we stopped reading and imagining great things, we stopped dreaming but for the long sleep.
The Media, The Newspapers, The Entertainment Companies have taken it upon themselves to entertain us with death to death.
In what perversion of the Universe
A gun is displayed proudly, death and dismemberment, but penis and breasts are obscene and everyone covers their eyes like they are some sort of exploding meat packs.
In what version of moral and social contract the taking of life is celebrated from every headline, every other film, movie, talkie, radio program, article, song but the making of life is stickered with black bandaids like black holes.
I am okay with sex, it’s great. it should be in every movie and we should be having it on every corner, but I am not okay with guns, dismemberment and violence.
I’ll tell you why death watching is popular.
Death makes money both for the people who make the guns and for those who make the Death Entertainment
It is the sickness of our civilization. The virus of violence.
The easiest thing is to destroy and deliver death but to build and to make is very difficult. A life could be taken in 5 seconds. Life took billions and billions of years to make. We used to be just soup for billions of years.
Destruction is very easy - a tower can come down in minutes that took years to build. A life would go out in three second but took… the entire Universe to make life. Remember Mr Zorg from the 5th Element - destruction makes excitement, makes a shuffle - a glass falls and breaks and now a dozen robots have jobs.
We should not be entertaining ourselves with death, we should be sharpening our teeth for great things as a civilization
But we have so few role models. So very few people make it their life’s work to create great things. Because it is very very difficult to create great things. You have to think of great things first. You have to dream them up.
Yeah, there are many accomplished and smart people on Earth, there are great businesses, people build empires - but there are very few visionaries, because you have to develop the vision in your mind first and then make it. It takes an enormous effort to be a creator of that caliber. It is just much easier to shuffle things. Or worse, destroy. So in the Media the Entertainment Companies’ defense - there isn’t much to talk about.
When I want to think of great things - I have a few masters I look up to - they are mostly dead: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Steve Jobs ( to some degree ) and the great master Salvador Dali. When I think of my contemporaries there’s only one man I look up to: Elon Musk.
Yeah, there are a lot and smarter people than Elon Musk out there but most of them are in academia and you cannot make great things when you haven’t put everything you have got on the line.
To create great things you have to put everything on the line. If you haven’t put everything you've got on the line you have nothing on the line.
And then you have to put everything you have behind what you believe in. I believe Elon does.
Put everything you have got behind what you believe in and I will believe you.
This is why it is difficult to create, to dream big - it takes a lot of resources, mental and material. And it takes great resources to dream up big things. So we fall back to what is easy - get buzzed on Death Entertainment. There is a reddit subreddit called Watch People Die. I have never been to it but know of it. It is easy to watch people and things go away, it is so much harder to build - you have to fight all the known laws and physics of the Universe. Including gravity when you get out of bed.
Here is how I wanna die.
I wanna be the first artist on Mars and wanna die with my eyes facing the stars.
But until then I am gonna create and make everything there is for me to create and make.
We are not lacking causes to live for.
The first step is to educate ourselves. I love entertainment, but I’d love more to be educated and enlightened. Here is something that will immediately educate you in great many subjects so you can pick something to fight for or stand for. The brightest minds of mankind answer this one question.
I stole it from a great man’s website - hope I will be forgiven, I just copied all the answers and put them on this little page: Edge.org - WHAT SCIENTIFIC TERM OR CONCEPT OUGHT TO BE MORE WIDELY KNOWN
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https://www.edge.org/responses/what-scientific-term-or%C2%A0concept-ought-to-be-more-widely-known
Be well, y’all.