An attempt at making sense of what's going on in the world as humbly as I'm capable of Part 2

If you want a good foundation for understanding what I'm talking about here, please read my posts: Identity and selective perception 1 and 2 and A way that smart people reach conclusions based on faulty premises.

I wish to draw your attention to something that I know some have noticed, but that most commentators seem to miss. Namely what has happened to us. I will make a whole post on this. To understand what I’m talking about here, you need to understand a fundamental insight. Namely that attention is everything. Depending on what we pay attention to, we will get a completely different life and reality. So, what do you think will happen, if we are not even conscious of what we are paying attention to, in a world with unlimited access to distractions 24 hours a day? We of course have our smart phones, we have games, tv-series, pornography, sensationalist journalism etc. Doctors prescribe psychotropic drugs that make us more absent and numb our senses, often because of problems caused partially by our inability to focus. We are constantly under stress and pressured to always be accessible. Furthermore, social media is replacing human interactions and make us focus more on our appearances than our actual selves. 

It is in general pretty clear that our culture is destroying us mentally and emotionally. And it’s not as if there is no psychological research available that can tell us this. Coupled with this, we have a huge control system in place, that to a large extent is capable of running itself through advanced algorithms.

There is however a way out of this. We need to: Seek God first. Meditate. Pray. Practice mindfulness. Start looking at ourselves and our choices with as much honesty as possible. Bring as much awareness into our lives as possible. Don’t be afraid of looking at that which is shameful and painful. It’s going to be there whether we choose to look at it or not. Be honest with ourselves with regard to our habits, with as little judgment as possible. Start making conscious choices, instead of just letting life happen. Change will not come from us changing the political system. Change will come when we start taking responsibility for ourselves and our lives.