What if we could no longer rely on electricity? What if the radio was not working? What would it mean if your tv and x-box was inoperable? How would you handle it if all of your computers only output "error error"? Would you be able to entertain yourself? Would it mean using - heaven forbid - your brain? Thinking might be a necessity. I suppose you could just go down to the nearest bar and drink yourself into a stupor every night. But if you didn't... Imagine what could actually be discussed! What could actually be thought! You would not be able to rely on what is fed to you but what you think. True, it would be possible to still find people who could tell you what to think but it would not be fed so readily. People would no longer be concerned about what is going to happen on next week's Gilmore Girls. What about really discovering the answers? No wait. Before we can even look for the answers we need to learn the questions. Do we even know what questions need to be answered? Our lives have been so overrun by the media - music, reality tv, dramatizations, entertaining tv shows with no real point, even the news that focuses only on the "entertaining" stories - that our brains have shut down. Now something as simple as "thinking for yourself" is intimidating and uncomfortable at best. Indoctrination is something we have heard about and is known by everyone. Have you ever watched someone who is watching tv? How can we just sit there and let ourselves be so indoctrinated? How often have you ever seen indoctrination to be a good thing? How can you just sit there and willingly let it happen to you? Is it just because it easier to be a mindless drone or is it the comfort that is found in being just one of many?
And yet the irony ... I am currently absorbing my dose of the X-Files while taking my music intravenously.
