Showing posts with label propaganda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label propaganda. Show all posts

Thursday, December 30, 2021

Strange Land: Check Your Programming

 A diversion from what I'm writing, to some degree. 

It's been suggested I read Pilgrim's Progress, by Bunyan. I get the gist that story, written in poem form is about someone moving from the land of destruction (Earth and our present life) toward Eternity and essentially our quest to go home.  Without having read it, here's my take on what I've heard about it.

None of us truly belong here. This is not the final destination. This life, is merely a road we are on. Our body is the vehicle. But who is driving it? We are inundated with advertising, social media, television, movies, video games, text messages, direct mailings. We are completely inundated with distraction and coercion. Buy that, do this, eat that, wear this, succeed in that, vote for them, hate the other crowd.