Thursday, September 18, 2025
The world can only be taken in by 5 senses. That’s plenty of stimulation. The world “at large” is secondhand, chewed up, and overly interpreted. It’s been delivered to you by people who are in a market frenzy. When the market is hot, so are the developers of conflict and fear. How do we manufacture a frenzy? Superficially create a market.
Pollyanna doesn’t create a market appetite, good old-fashioned fear does! The church picked up on this trick eons ago. Selling and consuming fear is the economics of the church. Hell was held in the noses of parishioners, and they gave, guiltily. But fear, like dust, is hard to keep up. You have to kick it up constantly, because its natural tendency is to settle. What’s left when the dust settles? The simple life.
Firsthand experience is overwhelming enough, why would you be in the market for more? Social media loves to sell comparison, another name for fear. Sensationalism sells, and audiences are gluttons for it. Firsthand experience is dull to us. We want secondhand stuff, handed down by a sinister face on a television screen prophesying “vitally important information.”
Like a virus, fear propagates. The prophecy self-fulfills and then we get a boost of “I told-you-so’s.” The world at large is gluttony. Your 5 senses are what beckon you. Your immediate world is all there is, and that’s more than enough. Connect to the world “at large,” and you’re lost to your immediate world, those who really matter.
Firsthand experience is overwhelming, but manageable. Why feed into the gluttony of fear coming from the world “at large?” We’ve lost our appetite for intimacy. If there were no appetite for the world “at large,” the frenzied market would go cold. Boycott “at large,” and feed on the loving bosom of your five, simple senses. Rich, wholesome, and intimate.