thoughts on the day

Perhaps it is because we, as a modern industrial-technological society, or as individuals there within, exhausted from extended work hours, juggling more diverse responsibilities than our forefathers, and bombarded 24/7 with copious amounts of information---facts and figures often causing fears and phobias of things we know exist but of which we know are mostly beyond our control (from as small as our chromosomes, to as large as terrorist stikes)---along with our individual guilts (ranging from having had too many marriages, not having had children, not having enough time or money, having too small of breasts, too slight a portfolio, or last year's video games), add to that the stresses we impose on our bodies and psyches simply from what we do with our forks---warily tip-toeing between morbid obesity, anorexia and clogged arteries---then, on to everybody's favorite personal quagmire: drug and alcohol abuse (for the reactionaries among us), and general addiction to the prescription drug industry as a panacea (for the more modest, yet equally dissatisfied folk); given all of these and more, it is no wonder, thus, our advanced society is turning to once obscure but now widely popularized forms of extremism, such as religious fanaticism or fetishes (or both), which are examples of rising subcultures that ride on the fantastic in rejection of mass culture, and at efficiencies that would make even the Amish blush; it is perhaps for these reasons why we, as individuals, are drawing towards whatever sources of unobtrusive, unmarketed, unmanifested respite we can find: We are, to this end, yearning for a time of disenlightenment. Even if it's just for a brief moment.