Distracted from Perceiving Reality
We're being and letting ourselves get distracted from looking at what we're doing to ourselves individually or collectively. Perceptual distractions are all the peripheral aspects of life that keep us from facing ourselves in the mirror, our shadow, the darkness within us, and getting to the heart of the darkness in life. They take up our our time that we can spend, and our attention that we pay with, our two valuable base currencies in life.
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They keep us from increasing conscious awareness of reality that allows us to see and be able to think about and feel the impact of reality as it is. The affect of the current condition of reality will motivate us to move and act to change.
It's like a magic trick. While we are paying attention to the left hand, the magician is doing something else with their right hand and fooling us. There are manipulators who fool us, but we also fool ourselves by choosing to ignore some things and pay attention to distractions instead.
Ignorance of reality is a form of unconsciousness, and inhibits accurate thinking and feeling of the effects in reality. When we feel reality and its affect upon us, then we can develop the care, courage and will to to act on that affection. If we are unaware and unconscious about the errors, wrong and evil, we will not see or feel them, and we will never act to stop them. This is simple cause and effect, a natural law.
Natural laws can be likened to a train. If we do not pay attention and gain conscious awareness to feel the true affect of reality, then we will also not accurately see what is coming at us. This unconsciousness is living in an insulated bubble of reality. This reality is not actual, but perceptual, existing in the trinity of unconsciousness: ignorance, apathy and cowardice. Failure to see what is coming down the pipe/line will result in our own destruction. We will destroy ourselves if we continue to be blind to what is actually happening in the world and in ourselves.
For previous work on cognitive biases that blind us: Availability heuristic, Attentional Bias,Anchoring or Focusing Effect, Ambiguity Effect.
Can’t see much ahead. Many distractions.
Entertainment, sports, TV, movies, latest news hype, gossip, latest gadget or social novelty, church requirements, job focus, economic ladders... This keeps us on the hamster wheel, away from facing our shadow, actions and beliefs. To have us believe we are "on the right track" as we are busy "doing" things that seem to matter. We can't see anything that really matters more and has a great effect on ourselves of the planet coming down the lane, because we're too busy with our personal life and the pleasure attainment of our distractions or of some goal we are trying to achieve that keeps our time, energy and attention focused somewhere else.
Why is it blurry? Because we are not looking at ourselves or the world directly to see what is really going on. It’s not in conscious awareness. It’s a fuzz of peripheral vision, we’re not directly looking.
More visible. See something ahead.
More conscious awareness of reality allows us to see down the road, pipe, at the future that is coming. Maybe we need to move out of the way? Maybe we need to head in a different direction? Change requires movement.
Clear sight. Know what is coming at you.
Someone who sees a lot of reality, sees where we are headed, and sees what is coming down the line. Likely or probable outcomes from current behavior can be estimated, guess or predicted.
Conscious awareness and how we feel reality is more developed. When we have enough detail, clarity and definition, then we have enough conscious awareness to feel reality accurately. When we see and feel the reality, we can act to do something. To change is to move. More conscious awareness is more depth of defining reality.
Natural law cause and effect and the consequences of our behavior being positive or negative is on or off track, a course set in motion by us. We can only stop it by changing, i.e. movement is change, to get on the "right track". If we stay on the same course and ignore reality, it will simply hit us unexpectedly and smack us down hard. We reap what we sow in the end as a species on this planet. We are all in this together.
The natural law train of reciprocity to reap our actions, is delayed through insulation of our way of life and time. We don't feel the overall consequences yet. Our actions have not yet circled back to affect us. Eventually, it catches up in our life, or collective humanity in the future. It builds up pressure and releases explosively when the bubble of illusions pops.
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I guess most people with blurred vision are unwillingly ignoring reality. It's only when one becomes aware of the manipulation, that one can counter it and see through the smoke.
I notice that in cities, many people are overstimulated, and therefore less conscious of the world around them. I live on an isolated island and for me it's completely different now. When I visit big cities, I notice everything that is wrong with how people live there, how they consume en masse, eat junk food, watch reality television, fake news etc. Once you take away all the stimuli, you see things exactly as they are.
Yup, you can't know how you're being fooled until you learn how you can be fooled ;) Good points :)
This is why cutting out TV and pop culture out of your life makes the biggest difference. After that, the mainstream culture starts to look a little insane. When I dwell on it, it can be extremely frustrating, so I now just focus on what I'm doing rather than getting dragged into the polarization.
I get it. It doesn't frustrate me that much anymore. Focus on trying to change thing and not get too emotional about the falsity, but still see it for what it is. At first, the emotional affect is helpful to get motivated to care about it and do something ;)
The emotional affect was a rollercoaster ever since I was diagnosed with ADD when I was 7. I took a few years to get my shit together after 5 years of being an adult and I’m good now hahah, had to relearn everything, through experience. :-)
I see these in some of my younger members of my team wherein they are distracted by the pings and beeps of their mobile phone from their instagram and Facebook messages of likes and hearts.
Their perception of reality and themselves tied to their ego online.
Media and society gives them the idea of who and what they should be. They know it is false yet they are immersed in looking at the mirror this false sense of morality gives.
Yeah, the great imitation game
I leave here a quote of a Portuguese Author that talked about today's veils people put between them and Reality in his novel "Blindness".
"I speak of a change that would lead people to think that this is not enough to live as a human being. It can not be. If we become people who are only interested in their own interests, let us turn ourselves into beasts against beasts. And this is what is happening."- José Saramago
Good quote buddy ;)
Many things distract us from the truth or a clear visual of reality. Propaganda media slants stories, Wall Street pundits tell you to look here, not here. Even the Devil distracts you so you will not have a relationship with God. Facebook, TV, people...even Steemit can be a distraction. if you allow it to be. Thanks @krnel