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Thought experiment about consumerism
Things, things… just pieces of junk, really. Sometimes I think: what if everyone lived simply, in caves with bare walls, and even without clothes? Then what meaning would life have for people? Today it often feels like consumerism is everything — work just so you can buy more things, basically. But an experiment in emptiness…
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Silence
In Western culture, and it’s natural derivative of after-globalisation post industrial (digital) capitalism culture, the real art and value of silence is clearly absent; and the culture of emptiness is missing too. Well, of course—capitalism needs to sell, and you can’t sell emptiness. Everything has to be filled and filled again, more and…
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Capitalism and Emptiness
It acts like acidity: an insane drive for money and profit in capitalism at any cost that corrodes essences—especially the subtle ones that are not inherently indented to be sold. Why is contemporary American mass-culture (movies) so poor? Because the product must be sold at any price; it cannot be “boring,” there must be no…
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Emptiness through you
Void… see the emptiness inside and through yourself, in fact it is there: the empty space in the stomach, between and inside the parts of the body, inside atoms, the emptiness between thoughts… This emptiness You are kind of permeable
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Emptiness
There is no such thing as absolute emptiness.But there is the idea of absolute emptiness.How empty is that idea? I know what emptiness is, it’s when I’m not there… and the mind tries to go back to the place where it wasn’t and realizes it was empty. So doesn’t emptiness equal absence? The idea of…
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Processing chemistry of brain, emptiness and consciousness, the scheme of its relations
Are the sensations of reality, including the “delivery of things as they are” created by the brain and its processing chemistry, or is it a direct connection? Is emptiness real and then what role does pure consciousness play in it? The world is material and exists independently of consciousness – no doubt here, that is…