The materialists celebrate their engaging in different activities. Many of those activities are just titillations of stimulation; what I call over-compensation to reclaim the identity they gave up for their employment, status, and trophy relationships. They NEED the sensory spectacles of external sources for their rejuvenation, otherwise they'd have to face a discontent for which they have an impotent apathy about.
These diverting attention-spectacles are replacing the internal physiological and psychological mechanisms that provide the inspiration and motivation for the same rush of satisfaction that those spectacles of distraction serve-like an addictive drug. Since we are cognitively trained to seek out these tangible experiences to be the indirect signals of our opaqued being, for our commercial and emotional contentment, we become predispostionally motivated to the behaviors that apprehend and acquire these trappings.
In the meantime, as we are in this process, becoming an artifact and commodity, ourselves. With the few glorious and inglorious exceptions, who become icons for mimicked paradigms, we become one of the fungible social and cultural widget functionaries whose only affirmations for their existence are the external stimulations that artificially create the existential exhilaration of satisfaction. It's the same as utilizing an ersatz, politically or socially correct, authorized item as the allowed product for your expression. And consequentially, we intentionally and unintentionally seek others to be the emotional, if not the practical enablers in consensus of submission for our activities. Many times these co-dependent, enablement-seeking efforts create a social and cultural web that is a perverse expression of our original intent and a degradation of the ideals for that intent. We have settled by adaptive accommodation into a false representation of ourselves and what we know as better, if not the truth.
Just as the tale of the Tower of Babel described how the multitude of languages was made to confound and obstruct men's hubristic designs for mortal achievement, it also gives a corollary tale of how not only the form of communication can become an obstacle of comprehension, but the substance of the content can further compound the misperceptions and misconceptions of the actors. The misperceptions and the resulting misconceptions create a fiction of the perceivers about themselves, as well as the entities and forms of their environment. Thus the narratives that are our bases of logic become degraded to myths and legends in the delusions of our misperceptions and their misconceptions.
In this gauntlet of psychological falsities there exist the base, popular fallacy and the improvisations, which are derived from them. All these do is divert the energy of a coherent focus to the sensory diversions that have been provided by the cultural fallacy as the affirmations for our being. In fact, the cultural fallacy is the conception of the pursuit of materialistic consumption. That pursuit has perverted and degenerated the processes of our feral physiology whose broader functions are NOT the gluttony of sensory stimulation. The broader functions are for the processing of signals and stimuli for an associative correlation of insight and appreciation of the synergistic and interconnected systems of the phenomena of existence.
There is NO escape or redemption within the framework of the cultural fallacies and their social derivatives. It is a toxic, psychological environment of illusions. One would to acquire an ascetic estrangement from most of the cultural and social forms to relieve the trashing of one's cognitive abilities down the distracting and dissipating paths of external sensory titillation. One would have to acquire the eye-of-the-needle, gatekeeper quality to have a discrete filter that could separate the functional and insightful, associative enhancement from the affected titillation of acute, sensory stimulation.
The on-going process of distilling meaning, incidental to one's obligatory and serendipitous pursuits, I see as liberation from the karma of mental inertia that is stuck on the tar-baby of indulgent, sensory consumption for its own sake. When one is distilling meaning, what one takes in or exposes one's senses to, is done as much for the understanding, analysis, and comprehension of the effects on one, as it is done for the aesthetic pleasantries of that moment. The analytical and insightful understanding of the affects of the aesthetics one is engaging becomes an equally, if not the primary collateral reason for engaging that experience. That experience is engaged because it is an incidental extension of one's organic routine of confirmed knowledge and speculation.
This is not the major or main modus operandi of the cultural or social relations. People are affected aesthetes of their own indulgent consumptions. Those indulgent consumptions are degrading degeneration of their capacities to have an internally generated aesthetic. That aesthete would not be an artificial 'fix' but part of a coherent and resonating body of knowledge that connects meaning with a functional purpose, and not just to a satiated feeling.
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