...From the immediate collateral damage, and the subsequent fallout percolating out from each collateral event, from what is actually being destroyed, as a consequence of our "Booming Economy." And you resort to bingeing, from whatever streaming giant, as they spend ever more tens of billions on fantasy escapism, in ever more spectacular resolution, and sensory impacting special effects, reflect on this:

To the degree that it also causes you to do nothing about what is going on now, with so many natural, and human made, systems being overwhelmed by the over amplification of an operating system that wasn't meant to be amplified in the first place; to that degree are you also doing what Cypher is doing here, in this scene; in a very fundamental way. The only difference is, he is being considerably more honest about his abdication of responsibility; abdication from taking care of not only himself, but of everything else one can only suppose he used to believe in; as far as being a human being is concerned. Abdicating so as to be put back into the fantasy full time. And not caring if it's only for a short time, just as long as its a kick ass good fantasy for him.

And understand also that it doesn't necessarily have to be bingeing in the nominal, Netflix sort of sense. Your bingeing might be your absolute obsession with being the most watched YouTube channel, or the most watched Twitch source, or most watch Discord, or Facebook, or whatever channel you think you can brand your very being on, for the material gain, to also be able to binge on.

Whatever the case may be, it brings to the forefront a catchphrase appropriate for someone calling themselves Cypher. A catchphrase that will have you living on a foundation of sand with the notion of "Ignorance Is Bliss." Sand with no thought for drainage, or the shifting vagaries of a very much, unquiet planet.

As a result of this turning away you will be hoping that, in that bliss, someone else will be taking care of the things that need to be taken care of. Whether that be a random machine intellect that might emerge from the chaos of our neglect, or simply the inertia of a broken operating system that can't stop because no one knows what to even begin to use as a brake pedal any more; on a mutated system that uses algorithms no one understands because AI had to take over writing them, now that it has, indeed, been mutated by electrified amplification.

There is something we could do if we took responsibility for ourselves, and started owning, and running, our own communities (redefining the nature of work). It is something that would offer an amazing array of new, very hopeful possibilities. To do that, though, will require a great deal of difficulty, and sacrifice, to be overcome. I have outlined what that approach might be in the two blogs ("Capitalism Is Obsolete", and "Containers Of Containers -- A Pamphlet On The Notion Of Cosmolosophy, And the Need For Change.") that I have been doing in the Google system for the last several years now.

There is a choice to be made here and you are in the process of making it whether you want to be or not. A choice where doing nothing is its own, dishonest, abdication.

So. You can be an honest Cypher, or a lame Cypher, but you will still be a Cypher, if you stay with things as they are.

Or you can be someone who actually still gives a damn about preserving all life. Someone willing to break out of that mold altogether. Someone willing to stop doing "Business As Usual," and start doing life by a more balanced approach to all of life's opposites. One where money won't be needed at all to make meaningful connections with each other with; just the free flow of information, to the best degree possible, seeking true equity in the resolution of outcomes, as we negotiate a new way to cooperate with each other; based on love and mind.

Which will you chose I wonder. Which will you chose.