Mystical Morning Thoughts about Data | Fighting back internet overwhelm and data overload...
This morning I broke a personal rule, and found myself scrolling through the news section of Twitter first thing. I was met with news of devastating Hurricanes, and stories of bankruptcy, earthquakes, “China” and of course it’s national Speak Like a Pirate day... so there’s that.
At what other time in human history have we had the opportunity to shoulder the burden of all of our planet’s woes within minutes. To assimilate all of the suffering, and heartache experienced by all of this planet’s lifeforms, human and non in fractions of seconds. It’s too much for me.
And yes, while it is important to stay informed. Information is not knowledge. It’s just a relayed message, in the case of the internet, amplified repeated and projected to a sometimes immeasurable degree. It’s hard to be an empath on the internet. But please don’t mistake data for knowledge.
One of my favorite quotes is:
"Wisdom has been replaced by knowledge and knowledge has been replaced by data.”
Today, let’s all try to get back to what makes us human, instead of relay stations for forces with an agenda that doesn’t even include you. You have the ability to receive sensory input from the outside world but ALSO your inner world. The world of your mind, spirit, and body. You are the physical collision of those data sets. They swirl within you, and your transformative human-species magic turns them into wisdom that’s meant to be shared through whatever expression you choose.
If you feel disillusioned, burnt out and out of sync after spending time on social. It’s ok, you’re meant to. It’s like holding your breath underwater and being frustrated you can’t breathe. We were built as truth and wisdom way-stations, with transfers in every direction.
Not as disconnected backup cloud servers.
I hope this short message finds you well this morning. That you're taking time to defrag the empathy drive, and creating headspace so that you've got room to listen to yourself and what the world around you is telling you. I sure needed to today, and I have a hunch it's going to be a skill that will serve me as life gets faster and the rest of the world comes online.
Remember kids, the best way to fight those AI overlords and "social" algorythms is to not become one of them!
Keep humaning, human!
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Dayle
This is beautiful!
Thank you for the encouragement to keep humaning, it is heartfelt and I need constant reminders to ignore, block, reject and resist all of the negative energy and imput, and instead channel the good, the positive, the light;
Like this post ;)
When i was in university I had a neuropsych class and i remember the teacher saying one day that she doesn't watch the news because even though logically your mind understands these things are happening to other people your body can react as though it's happening to you. I try to keep my news watching to a minimum! I agree it's very stressful.
Oh my goodness that makes so sense! I feel like that's what happens to me all the time. And we wonder why we've got neck and back tension and headaches and can't sleep lol.
So true. In marketing, there is the concept of "content analysis", which is where you SCAN all of the information being presented in all forms of media in order to find PATTERNS in the information from across the spectrum. Over the years I have maintained my ( little remaining) sanity by shifting from being a more ACTIVE consumer of mass media, to more of a "content analyst". In fact, I barely watch full YouTube videos anymore, and instead usually do a brief scan off all the videos available each day (and usually watch one or two from reputable sources). This gives me a MANAGABLE shot of current events to stay informed WITHOUT turning my mind-body-soul to MUSH. Good post. You would likely enjoy some/any of the posts in my evolving "Steemit Success" series. Here the most recent one :
https://steemit.com/steemit/@transcript-junky/steemit-success-tip-of-the-day-8-sleep-your-way-to-the-top I just found your profile and followed you. Keep up the good work ...
Thanks so much @transcript-junky!
HUGE point right there! Great read, especially the bit about mood balancing, sometimes I'll get this crazy irrational anxiety late at night, and It took me awhile but I realized it's just exhaustion manifesting, since my brain cant process eventualities, it just turns to fear.
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