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TV screens. Computer screens. Phone screens. Movie screens.
Quote:
“By parading a stream of other people’s lives in front of us, screens remove the responsibility to create our own lives. We watch other people doing things instead of doing them ourselves. This makes us radically powerless, and powerlessness leads to anxiety. And anxiety leads to shopping. Shopping leads to debt. Debt leads back to anxiety.” – How to Be Free by Tom Hodgkinson
Observation:
Western consumerism teaches you to live vicariously thru others. To live vicariously thru your possessions. If you buy first, then you will feel, experience, be.
Definition:
Vicar = representative, deputy, or substitute; anyone acting “in the person of” or agent for a superior.
Example:
The Vicar of Christ.
A religious term, thought system word, gatekeeper word. Slavery.
Two Sides:
The dumb animal side
The smart mind side
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