In this era of invasive communication and informational multiplication, whose space is par excellence precisely where I am writing, the simplest decisions like "I'll look" or "I won't look," "I'll open" or "I won't open" become crucial for everyone's life. These minuscule decisions that we constantly make in front of the internet will continue to define us as beings, because they (re or de)form us, they (re)educate us.
Due to the continuous phenomenon of novelty production on all fronts, man is forced to undergo a continuous and often aggressive process of cultural formation, even after the age at which the first fruits of knowledge should have already been reaped (25 years old?). We are in the absurd situation of a tree into which nutrients are artificially injected, no longer being given the opportunity to produce fruit. Or of a bodybuilder excessively anabolized to the point of infertility.
Human consciousness is increasingly acutely affected by a very large number of stimuli and information, therefore the role of content discrimination has become very important. Otherwise, you risk ending up in a madhouse.
If in the past the need for an information filter was very low and, on the contrary, we felt that "we didn't have access to information," now the importance of a filter has become crucial. The filter almost becomes more important than the filtered content.
Someone gave a piece of advice at the end of a conference: "Do you want to be free? Set your own limits!".
If before there was a thirst for information and culture, today people are increasingly starting to feel diversity as an aggression, to feel that they are simply getting dizzy and sick. We are not far from vomiting out everything we have accumulated. Food assimilation has become impossible, because it is suffocated by continuous ingestion. Assimilation means giving common sense to the accumulation of events, things, information, etc., but who is still interested in such a thing?
Who else can give common sense to this pulverization? Before succumbing to an intestinal occlusion, we could do something. Each of us could personally institute a strong filter for discriminating what we accept or reject as a stimulus and as information, even before opening the information, the communication channel. A kind of blind sorting based on simple principles that each person should establish for themselves.
Of course, in the process of torture by forced feeding to which we are subjected, not only the chaotic vascularization of the internet is to blame, but our entire contemporary way of life, but I believe the internet holds the primary role.
We could start here.
With Discrimination, with Filters, and with Limits. DFL.
Mircea Stanciu
Excerpt from "The Journal of Healing," a book forthcoming from Bonifaciu Publishing House
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