Hard to focus with vacuum cleaner roaring a few feet away. Impossible. It seems that the white noise (why does white supremacy instantly jump in) of news serves the same purpose. To stop us from thinking. From seeing the world around us as it is, without somebody’s spin on it. I would think that even in a ghetto you should be able to keep your head without the extra noise. Should be able to navigate where ever you think is right. We are individuals within the larger social body that is constantly being molded by forces which we seemingly have no effect on, because of the noise. We’re given “platforms” on which to play, the social media, where we really don’t have any influence on what’s going on. Distractions all around. But. It’s actually impossible to stop thinking. ThinKING. So maybe it’s not so much to stop us from thinking but to control it? And suddenly a conversation about paying attention. What does that mean? Paying attention? Paying. How do you pay attention? When you pay, you give something for something. So you give your attention to the circumstances to see what it is that’s going on? Do the circumstances then do something with the attention that you gave them? Do they change because of the new input? Thoughts are, like much else, invisible. Even though the sciences are now saying that you can see mental activity in the brain. I don’t know. It seems that some thoughts I think, and so those might be visible because I’m the one creating them. But, there are also thoughts that I don’t think. They just come to me from somewhere. And it’s not like you can see where they came from. You can argue that with sight you can see activity in the brain because there’s energy coming in through the eyes. Where would you look to see where thoughts are coming from?
I think there’s only one life. We all share in the same life. And death is but a part of it. Death and life are the same. Different locations.
