About Cluttered lives, and emotional drift

Hello,

I started to talk about clutter on my first post. . . Because I believe clutter has become one of the biggest impediments to connect with others and, more importantly, with ourselves.

Just look at the amount of daily tasks required to "stay on top." Combined all your emails, your Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter accounts, plus all the news that we keep digesting in one form or another, plus all the websites you have registered with, just to be able to buy something, which needs to be opened, updated, verified, plus your personal blog, and you have a phenomenal time management monster in your hands consuming most of our days. And this even before you can start being productive, go to work, and have a social and family life.

I often wondered how did we manage our lives before the internet took over. How did human contact take place? How did we shop? We live in a physical world. So when I referred to the paradigm shift occurring between the scientist and the rat, I am beginning to see patterns of behaviors that suggest that we have become the slave to the machine? It is no longer the software and the technology that facilitates our lives. It is our lives that work around the limitation of technology.

Although I am very tempted to talk about the restriction of the technology, I will keep the subject for another post. Today I am most interested in talking about human connection.

What are we doing to ourselves? Why would we create a society where the technology under the guise of connecting us with the rest of the world, in fact does just the opposite. It disconnects us from ourselves. It buries us under endless requirement to manage and process data. And this gives us a very good excuse to stay away from our inner emotional core. It separates us from each other.

The excuse is perfect in the 24x7 society, there is no need to spend time with ourselves. The distraction remains constant and consistent. This is the perfect place to hide, to remain away from many real human interactions. To take refuge in the simulation of reality.

Nothing ever will replace a direct human experience. The e-society may feel like reality but it is merely a fantasy. A fictional rendition of a wishful representation. We relate better to the technology that brings us together rather than the people on the other side. Our lives like our emotions take a fictionalize account. We surrender our humanity at the expenses of its manifestation. Of course this submission results in major confusion and loss when it comes to meaning, purpose, and values in life.

Welcome to my blog

Hello you out there,

We do not know each other, but I hope to get to know some of you in the near future. This is one of the inspiring aspects of technology, the ability to reach people from parts of the world and culture that would have been unthinkable just ten years ago. The annoying part of technology (this is serious matter), is its constant need for attention, the management of data, and the distraction that ensuing. If you, I, want survive in this tidal waves of electronic maintenance, we must develop our discipline, and a strong sense of awareness. This is the only way out to extract ourselves from the daily din of superfluous tasks.

It is the paradox of the scientist and the rat in a lab. The scientist knows that when he feds the rat that the rat will have to press on the lever to turn the light on to get its reward. The scientist is in charge of the rat. But there exists strong evidence to suggest that the opposite is equally true. What about is the rat knows that it gets fed when pressing on the lever, and intentionally does repetitively to be fed? Then the question is who is in charge? Who is taming who? We are living a paradigm shift, where we, the scientists, are becoming more and more enslaved to our toys. We think we are in charge when in fact they control us. We surrender our most precious human aspects: free will and awareness, and disappear from our sense of self and groundness.

So my aim with this blog is to help people reconnect with themselves, to get in touch with their inner feelings, to design their lives according to their own values, and to inspire them into action.

Looking forward

Eugene Lioubov