I hate to say it but even the conspiracy talk and what ex-journalists or ex-banker confess do serve the game. We usually think of us to be immune to this and that, even to advertisement but we are not, since we were born and raised in our modern societies. We don't have the slightest clue where to get our information other than the media. I watched hundreds of youtube videos about people who plunged out of their positions but still, we are all in the system.
To be not influenced by media and Internet one has to drop out totally. This would mean to become self-sustainable like a farmer who also produces his own electricity. I guess even Michael Reynolds is not fully independent even with his biotech-houses (though really worth to check out). The only free people are those who don't know and care about us. Like some tribes or farm people (maybe the Armish).
The one and only person, who was also (to a certain degree) free and the one I know of in person was my mom. Though it had a price: in the first half of her life, she was experiencing war and imprisonment. Then she gave birth to six children and only cared about her little community. She was later on totally cared by her children: us. She didn't watch tv, no media at all, she never drove a car, she never traveled. Her world was her garden and her children. It was a perfect alliance.
I find all of this talk over exaggerated and only because everyone participates in it, it can work and will go on. I am doing the same right now.
Nobody is interested in dead people or how babies are born. Many people have never seen a dead corpse, neither a newborn coming into life. Yet everyone was born and will die. I find that rather strange.
In what I call "real life" women cannot find midwives any longer. I am talking about cases, I just heard of. The wife of my nephew, my niece and a good friend and also many of my clients won't get the service of a midwife. Here in Germany, their existence is being destroyed and you can only go to a hospital to get a baby. Does anyone of you know, how important their work is and why that is a horrible loss? I really would like an answer but no matter where I go and no matter whom I ask, no one cares. Same with dying. Do you see coffins in the streets? Do you see people celebrating death? Do you feel yourself worshiped by participating in a funeral and all death business? From where I live people want to get quick over these events.
Technology is the holy grail and that is what we care for even if we pretend we don't. Look at the topics here on steemit and elsewhere in the media.
Well, that is how it looks like when I unleash my pain-speech. It sucks. I can do a lot better. Sigh.
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