Introduction

In America everything in marketable, even the people. Our interests are handed to us, our hobbies defined by availability and cost. We are the market and the market controls us. Instead of creating we merely shape what already exists in our environment. Our hold on ourselves is slipping and we are being replaced by clones of one another. Like the mannequin, we look like one another, we dress like one another and we act like one another--frozen in oblivian. Now a days our whole lives have become shaped by the capitalistic society in which we live today. Our travels are bombarded by billboards, television and film a mix of cleverly disguised advertisement and outright invading commercials. Children learn from a young age to desire more just like the three-year-old boy I watch who constantly announces while watching T.V., “I want that!” Yes folks, that’s it. Forget about free will or personal choices. We are predetermined and primed to fit perfectly into the pockets of the CEO’s and presidents of banks and oil companies from all over the globe.

We don’t live in the United States of America, this is the United States of Entertainment where there’s always something to do and someway to make your money, yet everyone here is bored. So bored we’ve stopped reading. So bored we don’t travel. So bored we have stopped thinking. Everything that we are told we believe. We sit in front of our televisions and like drones from some old science fiction movie, we don’t move, we don’t think, we just absorb what we hear and mark it as fact. If the news anchor says it so then it must be. We have gotten so use to information being fed to us that we don’t question it. We don’t question the food we eat; we don’t question the drugs we are prescribed. We rely on what other people tell us so often that we don’t even question the God we believe in. I am on a journey or exploration that will never cease because I have made the conscious decision to THINK and once you start thinking the possibilities are endless.

I would like to leave you today with something to THINK about. Dr. Barry Vacker of Temple University recently completed this short film and shared it with me. "Space Times Square" is a meditative journey through the mediated cosmos of Times Square. Enjoy. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2659199116594447000