Global Research, September 12, 2023
“A treasure stumbled upon, suddenly; not gradually accumulated, by adding one to one. The accumulation of learning, ‘adding to the sum-total of human knowledge’; lay that burden down, that baggage, that impediment. Take nothing for your journey; travel light.” – Norman O. Brown, Love’s Body
These are “heavy” times, colloquially speaking.
Forebodings everywhere.
Everything broken.
People on edge, nervous, filled with anxiety about they know not what since it seems to be everything.
The economy, politics, elections, endless propaganda, the war in Ukraine, censorship, the environment, nuclear war, Covid/vaccines, a massive world-wide collapse, the death of democratic possibilities, the loss of all innocence as a very weird and dangerous future creeps upon us, etc.
Only the most anesthetized don’t feel it.
The anxiety has increased even as access to staggering amounts of knowledge – and falsehoods – has become available with the click of a button into the digital encyclopedia.
The CIA’s MK-Ultra mind control program has gone digital.
The more information, the more insubstantial the world seems, but it is not an insubstantiality that connects to hope or faith but to despair.
Across the world people are holding their breath. What’s next?