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Granted, I'm new around here. Granted, the use, misuse, influence, and abuse of influence by media does, indeed matter. Or, in other words, I may be new around here, but I did not just tumble loose from a load of melons and fall off of the truck.
Yet, perhaps because I am new here, I am noticing that there is enormous familiarity with all sorts of tiny bits of media trivia among most of the posters here, while at the same time, there are occasional posts in which three-dimensional reality suddenly strikes someone, and despite their great awareness of atrocity via media, the reality shakes them, deeply and profoundly.
In that experience, they have my greatest sympathy. I wish that life had been kinder to them, and even kinder still to the victim of whom they have suddenly become truly aware.
Still, I recall a piece of work, another bit of media, by Gene Roddenbury, in which an advanced civilization was brought to its' last gasp by an addiction to media as a replacement for reality. It was called, "The Menagerie".
And I wonder how much or how well many people are being "managed" in that menagerie's same way. I consider how, insulated by the seeming, apparent familiarity with so much and so many of the media's own, personal details, how, so saturated with trivia in place of information, people are so terribly shattered and shaken so badly when they are confronted by something real.
I wonder, for a reason.
That reason is this: That which truly shatters and shakes any living thing, including people, often causes them, by instinct, to start avoiding chances of encountering it, and makes them shy away. They protect themselves from it, in that way. It's a natural reaction. It's not thought about, or subject to much intellectual control.
And, since we're truly in the midst of many terrible things, I wonder if that reaction is not being cultivated by all of the mind-boggling trivia that substitutes for reality, and makes the reality of those terrible things so very hard for people to endure in three dimensions, for real.
Atrocity in two dimensions has no physical presence, yet it dulls and numbs the perception of those hammered by it, endlessly.
They truly think that they understand its' reality, but they don't.
And when they suddenly hit it, they just might run away from it by digging even deeper into more two-dimensional atrocity, as the more familiar thing, instead.
Thus, anyone who truly wanted to place those same people in a nicely managed Menagerie could do so, very easily, and those people would still believe that they were very facile at understanding the reality of war and wars' great damages.
And yet, because they could not bear the true reality, that same Menagerie's manager could, if he so desired, immolate the world.
So, in that I am far away from most of you, and entirely ignorant of what options you may have, I also wonder what ability you have available, to actually help the people who are being very badly harmed.
And I suggest, although I have no standing or seniority among you, that perhaps the Vietnam Veterans would be a good place to start looking for ways to truly help both those who are returning to you with such damages, and to help yourselves, as well, to learn in three dimensions all of that which, from two dimensions, you cannot truly know.
Because, "The Menagerie" was definitely not a good place for any human soul to try to live.
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