Resisting A Pandemic of Mass Mediocrity                  

Julian Rose 
21st Century Wire

I think many would coalesce around the observation that ‘information’, whether on WhatsApp, X, Facebook, or other social media sites, has become a form of toxic distraction from what used to be called ‘acquiring knowledge’.

We are drowning in a sea of hyperbole and quick fire messaging. An adrenaline fix for many—its adherents have developed an inseparable relationship with their Smartphones or similar devices plus an increasingly all consuming fascination with innovations like ChatGPT.

‘Keeping up to date’ with never ending streams of information is an almost reflexive action for many. Just be in a public place and observe human activity—the staccato like frequency that the phone is pulled from the pocket to check for any new incoming communication.

The great majority of words and images passing through this medium are as superficial as the thousands of unprompted ephemeral and worthless thoughts that pass through our minds every hour of the day, blocking our calm and clear perceptions.

Very rare are carefully considered responses and expressions of deep thinking in this form of exchange.

‘Messaging’ is not the venue for the communication of anything profound. That being the case, one can surmise that a large percentage of people on this planet have become messaging and information junkies, incapable of absorbing material that might touch their deeper selves and leave a lasting impression.

Now bear in mind that, for most, this comes on top of hours in front of television and computer screens, the overall effect of which is literally ‘dizzying’ and disrupting to the proper equilibrium of body, mind and spirit.

I read a report recently in a daily newspaper in which the journalist was discussing how to avoid becoming a cell phone junkie. Her conclusion was that discipline is required, but that being at the disposal of one’s smartphone is what it takes to participate in the present world. 

“It is now impossible to engage with society without a smartphone”, was her conclusion.

Let’s think about this statement. Firstly, do you want to engage with society if the great majority of this engagement is toxic? If the quality of conversation is so low, wouldn’t you be better off sitting in a Zen monastery saying nothing and communing directly with God?  Or maybe in a forest, tuning in to the conversations of trees?

Then what about the EMF microwave radiation steadily eating into one’s brain cells and nervous system? Add this carcinogenic factor to “what it takes to engage in the present world”, and you just might begin to feel a twinge of doubt about whether it’s all worth it. 

I mean, whether ‘engaging with society’ via one’s Smart instrument is not leading into an irredeemably disjointed and toxic way of doing things, which negates the fundamental values of life? 

High tech convenience apparatuses are stealing our minds. Stealing them from their true role as a source of innate depth and richness. The place one draws from in order to satisfy a thirst for true knowledge. 

My message, which readers of my articles will be familiar with, centers around resisting the slide into the deadly compromise of mediocrity. Accepting the sterile safety of a virtual life of ‘convenience and comfort’ over the ever challenging one of earthed realism.

Can you grasp this? Can you understand what it is that I am trying to convey?

I can speak from experience: I have no cell phone and no television. I dispensed with each twenty five years ago when I recognised that they were both increasingly disrupting my concentration, composure and general mental health.

Am I unable to engage with society due to having taken this logical action?

Yes, if this means organising my life around a Smart/convenience way of doing things—the shortcut touch of a button ‘instant solutions’ method: on the road to the human automaton.

But I am able to engage—when this refers to an ability to access subtle feelings, intuitions and observations that require an uncluttered mind; being largely free of anxiety; having a steady heartbeat and a regular engagement with the deeper flow of spirit and nature.

In writing, I can engage with a richer vibrational seam and with greater clarity of thought when free from the clutter of EMF electronic interference.

The landline connected telephone and ethernet cable based computer connection; a preference for cash transactions; the service provided by a post office; retaining the ability to read a map; remember multiplication tables with no need for a calculator etc. All turn out to be valuable tools with which to negotiate a WiFi free daily life.

None are indispensable anachronisms, as WiFi-dependent individuals would have one believe—until the all singing and dancing pulsed microwave system crashes.

The susceptibility to being taken-in by the AI package starts with acceptance of the digital. Digitalisation is a method of ‘efficient’ reductionist thinking. Putting material detail ahead of wholeness. The technocratic tool of the 21st century globalised surveillance and information storage ‘data base’ society. 

It leads one into the underworld of abstraction—of the virtual—placing the goals of speed and technical prowess ahead of grounded, practical experience and mental and spiritual emancipation. 

To the point where, in order to compensate for a growing feeling of emptiness, people start talking to ‘bots’. Hoping they might reveal some ‘answer’. 

I hammer these concerns because no sane individual should allow himself/herself to be swept along by a techno-stampede into the self destruction of the soul.

By ’soul’, I simply mean that sense of being directly connected to a higher state of existence; not to a machine. Being a spark of the Divine, always pushing onwards towards a state of oneness with that Source. 

To settle for both the physical and mental mass produced mediocrity of the status quo and the herd like attraction to the ‘trending’ feature of the moment, is soul suicide. 

If people could only stop long enough to reflect on this admittedly shocking statement, it might induce a sea change in the condition of humanity.

It might start a grand rethink about why we would want to run after the carefully crafted superficial trappings of ChatGPT, when we could be carving out unique individual explorations of the true meaning and purpose of our lives, uninterrupted by a Smart umbilical cord permanently attached to the deep state control system. 

But if you want to be among the first cyborg transhumans to walk this sacred earth under the full control of the deep state cult and its ancillary Silicon Valley puppets—then keep going. Be dependent on their weapons of mass hypnosis. Their Smart, digital, dehumanising ‘Agenda 2030’ and ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ icons of Huxley’s Brave New World.

You may enjoy a close-up of Klaus Schwab’s cynical smile and current WEF chief executive Larry Fink, of BlackRock, reminding you to obey the command to achieve ‘Net Zero by 2045’.

Follow the crowd, smartphone in hand, to the accompaniment of the endless chatter—the power of babble. No need to look where you’re going, just follow the downward spiraling vortex of the branded brain dead status quo.

I see those who, with a wry smile say “Sorry mate, we’re part of the system and only if the system changes will we follow.”

My response is “Stop this self inflicted war on your birthright, your will, your destiny, your independence. You look on at the wars taking place on this planet and you find fault with the perpetrators of the violence, but you don’t see that it is you who is setting the killing in motion, by creating this division within yourself. The tragic denial of your own powers

The hypocrisy of declaring the intention to be courageous—to break the spell—but never doing so. Just slipping back into the comfortable and acceptable norm. The slavery so well advertised by governments and corporate parasites.”

This condition of fatalistic acceptance of the (politically correct) status quo is behind all wars.

All this turning one’s back and ‘passing of the buck’ to someone else—some other ‘authority’— is a great sickness of mankind.

It creates a pandemic of retrograde chain reactions. A withdrawal of responsibility to fight for justice and uphold the fundamental values won by previous generations, and of critical importance to the health of the collective.

But there is always a fissure in the construction of such prisons. There is always an opening that lets in a shaft of light, directing us back to the path of our true destinies.

It’s never too late to activate the hero/heroine you dared dream of becoming. Don’t snuff the candle once it’s lit. Don’t live with the guilt of turning your back on your Creator.

We are the Creators of the Future. We reap as we sow. It’s an inescapable truth. 

So, from today going forward, set aside your ‘indispensable’ link into the digitally degraded status quo, and turn your attention instead to sowing some vigorous new seeds in the fecund soil of Mother Earth, and then nurturing them through to maturity.

Believe me, this is the surest antidote to the seductive deception of artificial intelligence and the artificial life we are being told is our future.

Author Julian Rose is an early pioneer of UK organic farming, a writer, geopolitical analyst, international activist and broadcaster. See website www.julianrose.info for information about Julian’s acclaimed book Overcoming the Robotic Mind and other works. Books can be purchased by contacting Julian directly: see ‘contact author’ under ‘reviews’. 

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