The Effects of Content Consumption Habits of Society on Its Intelligence and The Wisdom of Zen
philosophy·@vimukthi·
0.000 HBDThe Effects of Content Consumption Habits of Society on Its Intelligence and The Wisdom of Zen
__During my daily reading time I visited https://www.dailyzen.com which is a website I visit every few days to find some nice and profound quotes and came across these few timeless wisdom about the times.__ >__People in older times asked questions on account of confusion, so they were seeking actual realization through their questioning; when they got a single saying or half a phrase, they would take it seriously and examine it until they penetrated it. They were not like people nowadays who pose questions at random and answer with whatever comes out of their mouths, making laughingstocks of themselves.__ - __Foyan (1067–1120)__ >__In recent generations, many have come to regard question and answer dialogues as the style of the Zen school. They do not understand what the ancients were all about; they only pursue trivia, and do not come back to the essential. How strange!__ - __Foyan (1067–1120)__ >__Keys of Zen Mind: When you find peace and quiet in the midst of busyness and clamor, then towns and cities become mountain forests; afflictions are enlightenment, and sentient beings realize true awakening. These sayings can be uttered and understood by all beginners, who construe it as uniform equanimity; but then when they let their minds go, the ordinary and the spiritual are divided as before, quietude and activity operate separately. So obviously this was only an intellectual understanding.__ - __Foyan (1067–1120)__ # Watching Videos in The "Old Times" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfUX9W5TJIQ __OK probably I picked the wrong video for the occasion. But my point is that when people of 1983 watched videos, they were watching Movies, Documentaries, TV series or maybe some Music Videos. There was only so much content and those who created those content attempted to give it more value and people had less access to content and they watched less content. I don't think we have a scarcity of great content being produced. We recently had some movies like Blade Runner 2049, Arrival, Hacksaw Ridge, Mad Max: Fury Road and more. The problem isn't even with the movies themselves. It's YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram etc.__ __Just think about it. On average a person visits the theater about 4 times a year. Lot's of people do watch movies on streaming sites and Blue-Rays. But as a percentage of the total video consumption, how much goes to social media videos?__ __Surely there are great educational videos on YouTube. Here is one:__ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeFyTTubjXU __Now visit YouTube and check how many views there are. Most of the great and amazing videos I see have at best few hundred thousand views. About half of the great cotetn I've seen on YouTube has less than 100K views. Even picking a popular topic doesn't help that much.__ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD0cNRsJugg __If you open up YouTube in an Incognito window and/or type something like "Vlog" and look at the views, you'll see what people are looking at. Add other social media feeds to the list and a large portion of video viewing ends up being wasted on drivel that doesn't contribute to your life in any significant way. The same spreads to text with click baits and reading memes and other forms of gossip and politics. This has had its effect too.__ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDA4QPqAPe8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2wP-5L2EY0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf6kEFm5P9E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55K3jrTkg3o __I don't even know how many of these videos are even staged or carefully selected to fit a narrative. Also for some reason, most of the similar videos are related to "Americans" although it's not the only country that is facing a stupidity epidemic. Maybe it's the algorithm or maybe it's just a meme that has been spread that say American are stupid or maybe it's just there are enough smart Americans that get annoyed at stupid Americans and then they post videos about stupid Americans. Finally I managed a more authentic video from BuzzFeed.__ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjlIhCPAY0w # But How Many Positive Things Did You Learn? __I'm sure you learned some great things from the early parts of this post. But the 5 YouTube videos didn't add much to your life. You just figured out how stupid some people are. That's not real learning and it probably took as long as an anime episode to watch all those videos. Few days of that and you'll have the length of a movie. Speaking of movies, here is something from 1983__ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qul-rDvU9QI __Here are few quotes from the prophetic movie that is only 87 minutes long. You will have to add things like internet and mobile devices to the equation but the words have captured a certain essence way before the advent of the internet.__ >The battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the video arena — the videodrome. The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. Therefore the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore television is reality, and reality is less than television. > North America's getting soft, padrone. And the rest of the world is getting tough. Very, very tough. We're entering savage new times, and we're going to have to be pure... and direct... and strong... if we're gonna survive them. Now, you and this, uh, cesspool you call a television station... and, uh, your people who wallow around in it... and, uh, your viewers... who watch you do it— you're rotting us away from the inside. We intend to stop that rot. __Here is a quote from the director himself:__ >I was once on a talk show with a psychiatrist who worked at the Clark Institute with criminals. He had seen my film, Videodrome and said to me, “I’m almost afraid to be sitting here next to you.” He was totally mystified as to how I could empathize with those states of mind and he obviously, could not. It is mostly intuitive with me. One of the reasons I make a movie is that I’m then in a position where I have to analyze and I enjoy that process.*My images come out of the process of making film. I do really think that movies work on the level of dream logic. However realistic or narrative they might like to think they are, they are dreamlike. __How much of an impact do you think the entire movie would have on you? Videodrome (1983) isn't even the greatest and most profound movie eve made. David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis (2012) was eve better. One reviewer who gave the movie a slightly negative review said that it's a movie that you need to watch with the script on one hand and and an dictionary on another.__ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcqviouLRsU ### Just Take The Above Scene and Juxtapose It With The 3 Quotes from Foyan and the general reception of the movie that is 109 minutes of pretty much what you saw in the above video. Most of the so called intellectual critics bash this masterpiece for various reasons. But to me it is like a piece of ancient wisdom in a modern form. There is no trivia; just over-saturation of deep concepts and thoughts.
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