RE: Bids For Attention: Love and Graffiti 2
Oh my, there is something going on in the morphogenetic field in which this idea lives, because this is something that i been thinking and discussing recently. It goes something like this in the biology of disinformation, there are meme viruses that infect people in their weak code, and your blog is the other end of this. The host and/or enivornment(society) is lacking something, in which we are seeing signs of these diseases. In each approach we are looking at what is that iodine in the salt, and i think its Love, as defined as the felt experience of another.
Lastly i been feeling there is something simple yet complex, that empathy doesn't scale, humanity happens peer 2 peer. Where does this lead us? Shit if I really know, but maybe its just smile at a stranger, hug your love ones, be alone and ok with yourself, and maybe create lil notes of love, put them in a bottle, send them out in the ocean so those lost at sea can find there way....
I think it does scale if the ideas and stories we share broadcast the positive effects of empathy, and if we have our kids practice it. An interesting note in empathetic development in girls vs boys is that girls are taught empathy throughout life, we have dolls that we 'care' for. We might see our doll sitting face down and we say "She isn't comfortable like that and sit her up" or practice feeding and cuddling it , whereas boys practice destructive competitive games with their toys and games. This is changing, but it may take a few more generations at this rate to see true shifts in empathy. You can learn it later in life, but like any skill it is tougher as our brains lose their elasticity. As a person, you can just 'tend your garden' by being kind, as a part of society, you can make sure the public broadcasts you make are in line with what you believe. It all does matter, not only in your personal behavior but in the art and teaching you support :) Any idea is a virus in a sense lol
All ideas are virus, burroughs use to say language is a virus from outer space. It took a lot of rounds of self shroom therapy for me to scale emapthy =D but i think in systems and platforms emapthy does not scale so good or work that well, its hard to actually function in a state of global emapthy, but thats why lately I like to say humanity happens p2p.
Like here on steem the exchange of humanity and emapthy happens in the comments. But I am with you about improving media and art to 'heal' us of the disease.
I see what you mean by scale now, like there is no substitute. Yes totally, we can't created a concentrated efficient version of human interaction, yet lol. We certainly do try
I was just late night revisting this. Im sorry Ive been absent for your wonderful Imagination creations, but Im about to be in a better physical place where I can give more attention to the joys of the world 🤗