Rationing your attention for yourself, your body and your surroundings

The world is full of calls to our full attention often for stupid, trivial, toxic or dangerous and violent ideologies. So to pay attention to yourself, your own bodily corporeal existence and the sensory experience of the things around you becomes an act of rebellion.

Against the corporate treadmill pumping out stuff that you never asked for and never knew you needed.

Against manufacturerd online outrage, hatred and misinformation.

Against distracting bread and circuses that claim you should care about trivial things like celebrities and their love lives, minor and petty incidents, silly movies.

Meanwhile the natural world is crumbling around us and we are not paying attention.

If you pay attention to your body in space, the weather, the animals you will notice the shift.

Extreme weather events, extreme environmental pollution, animals disappearing forever, the rise of zoonotic diseases due to deforestation, the truth becomes clear. We are living through the unprecedented times of human-induced climate change.

From this point onwards it is not a simple case of reverting backwards to how things were.

We as a species long for and cultivate nostalgia, a green dream of endless plenty, abundance, where humans happily dominate all other species on this earth, as Judeo-christian scriptures of old gave us permission to do.

This got us far in history but there are natural limits to our world, but not to the human ego which strives to overcome and exploit nature at all costs.

Nature will of course have the final say.

Climate change will affect every aspect of our lives: food, water, weather, the air we breath, diseases we get, all of it will be irreversible past a certain point.

If you pay attention to the world outside instead of the Simulacra or the artificial copy of the world on screen, you will realise we are all in big big trouble.

*I’m sorry for this brain dump, it is quite severe and harsh compared to my usual light-hearted stuff, but this journey, this blog is about being grounded in reality as well, even if this might be terrifying I suppose. Sorry…these are my worries and I think others share them. Still many more others prefer to bury their heads in denial, as this is more comfortable, safer.

But the question is how long will people be able to live in denial for, in willful ignorance, this timeframe is ever-shortening.