December 24, 2018

Content is needed, content is demanded! It really doesn't matter what the content is, it could be a post-it-note on a refrigerator and that could end up being highly wanted by the ego's of physical space. 

Social media craves anything visual, anybody willing to become the idiot of the day, to do something outrageous, to feed the obsessive minds demanding their fix of stupidity. 

The worst outcome for social media would be that the intelligent human species realizes the nonsense and perverted declarations on social media for what it is, misdirection. As we spend more time ignoring our fellow man and spend endless hours on social media we begin the fruitless lives of avarice and addiction to a small stimulus of visual nonsense on a screen that takes you away from the your present moments that are moving beyond us and are missed forever. 

Your creative spirit lessens each moment you don't see with your own eyes and express your own mindful thoughts to counteract the preponderance of nonsense demeaning our lives and creating barriers of empathy for humankind.

This allows us quick moments of deception that dulls the senses to the real perceptions you could be experiencing live and first hand every second of your individual life.  Each moment is a blessing of experience. 

As we succumb to the visual stimulus present every second of the day we lose sight of our personal power to change and move away from trends of control for material gain.

We are herded creatures that have been baited, hook, line and sinker to a fantasy of information that has no baring on our future and on your intuitive expressions. These milliseconds of info do nothing in building a better society and a better life for human beings. There is nothing social about social media, it is access for the advertisers to see a trend and then exploit that trend for selling products, pure and simple!  

Content is needed but content of a foundation of personal relevance. An opinion in photographic form expressing oneself to the world in an intuitive response to your inner visual perceptions without the need to shape the experience of others but to reveal a part of yourself to the world overburdened with deceptive presentations of false existence.

Your inner life is where you must nurture your potential of revelations, your creativity is always present if you fight through your dependency on facts rather than an instinctive knowing. A feeling of sight that demands your focus and your entire being to be present and ready for the visual impression to form. 

To answer why you are here is nonsensical when taken out of context.  Why you are here, is to discover your inner being, your true self and the potential that exists in all of us to create our vision of ourselves externalized for all to see. 

Fear plays such a role in confining our lives to a ritual of controlling repetitions. A constant fear to be seen as different and unique, a separate individual with an inner consciousness ready to be seen and heard!  

To step out of line will draw attention to us and we are convinced that we would be ostracized and set adrift in a chaotic universe alone without a structured material facade directing us toward someone else's goals.

To be picked out of the crowd, to have the spotlight just on you shames us as egotistical and not your talent inherent in your true inner being showing through.

To not step out of line and be seen as different from others is the true foundation of human beings demand for conformity.  

Our intuition allows us to break free from the inherent chains of the intellects demands of conformity. But it takes a will to become yourself, that is demanded.

Intuition allows us to see beyond the surface reflections of the physical reality, to dig deeper towards our true understanding of ourselves waiting to be discovered through our unique vision beyond material distractions. 

For without digging deeper into the imaginary facade, figuring out the character of the individual that created the photograph one is left with an abstraction that is ultimately meaningless for us to see any truth in its creation or its purpose.

As human beings we are being controlled by words that limit our understanding, an over saturation of meaningless created facts, distracting our intellect to hide in redundancy of reactions  intertwined amongst horrendous casualties in the ongoing destruction of nature.

Self indulgence is not authentic. A selfie is not authentic. It is a performance. A grab shot from the hip is not authentic it is a lucky coincidence if in fact the image taker created an image of substance, a truth witnessed but without empathy and understanding.

Authenticity is being your self, it is the purpose of the image and the photographer needs to be aware of the illusion that can be created and undermine the necessity of focus in this world of fake insights into ones potential revelations. All you need for creating unique images is through a silent willful purpose to create your internal presence.

When ad men begin talking about the authentic, they are talking about the new trends in cultural evolution, that they have manipulated to sell products. This does not translate into the authentic. It is only a series of images depicting the trends now in vogue and the look is accepted as real because it reflects the norms of today's cultural bias. 

Once youth move on to something new then those dated images are not authentic but nostalgic and thus not real for their main focus of image creation is sales. Advertisers don't have a clue to authenticity. They are looking to create an impulse in the shopper to buy, so the product becomes a need to own and they use cultural fashion artifacts to sell their products. They are spreading out a wide net in abstract visual concepts to sell material products.

A visual stimulus is necessary to give the illusion of acceptance in a market place where to be seen is truth.  

If we settle for an intellect that domineers our inner perceptions then we will be accepted in society as normal. But move a little to the left or to the right and you can be labeled as blasphemy, a heathen that rejects the correct rules of society to follow not lead, that have been created to maintain wealth and leisure activities for the upper classes and for the rest of us as worker ants striving to survive on a daily basis. 

For me authenticity is a purposeful image created without a need to follow fads and it is felt deeply by the image creator, so deeply in fact that he didn't have a choice but to create it. Nothing more and nothing less.