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Friday, July 08, 2005
-LC I recently read that adult Americans watch on average five hours of television per day. Since I don't watch tv, this seems incredible. How do they have the time? I also read that when a person watches the screen for that long, s/he slips into alpha mode, which creates a situation in which information is not filtered by the discerning mind, it is automatically accepted. I guess that explains a lot. After having gone to more than ten major cities all over the world, I noticed nowhere but in America (specifically NY and SF) had that many of the dispossessed, many times of their minds as well as their things. People just wandering about with their basic perception-ability severely hampered. I imagine travelers here must feel shocked a la Twilight Zone. A memory--vast vast green of shaggy grass ascending and dropping and scattered with drab old government-looking edifices you think house no one and nothing until you see colorful clothing drying on a windowsill or three people on a motorbike angling up a dirt slope. In other notes...the eye of wisdom, which upon opening destroys the universe, causing the whole of creation to happen. The open eye sees what is being destroyed, is not turning away and hiding. It takes a lot of courage to keep that eye open.
why are the cafes silent but teeming
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