( Four minute read)

From a distance so many of our lives look the same. Survival, Procreation, Death.

But in our lives everything depends on others and there is no life without feeling part of something bigger than oneself.

Life demands an horizon bigger than the four walls of your living space.

The narrow ruts of immediacy is not life.

The din of humanity has to be shaken off to experience life.

A super market, a shopping centre, a consumer market mall, what ever you want to a call it is not life

Is your life to focus on convenience and consumption?

Are you walking around in fear of loosing your phone, having never read a book or visited an art gallery or museum or being to a play or concert. Climb a mountain, gone scuba diving, sniff a flower, cooked a meal, crack a joke, live in nature.

Life is not a football team, a culture, a race, a language, a country, or the cadaverous light of the computer, the laptop, the iPhone, the iPad, the smart TV.

Or is it rituals we continually reenact that-have long ago emptied of their meaning and do nothing to regather the sense of self.

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Modern day life is turning into a multifaceted compendium of evolving technology and social media affecting our physical and mental health.

It’s is not a life.

Unplug your phone and take notice of your surroundings.

Standing in front of a panoramic vista, or horizon less night sky, is a bit like waving ammonia underneath one’s nose. It reminds you that you are part of a bigger scheme of things than just life.

Change is inevitable.

There are it seems no rules to modern day life, other than overindulgence and living beyond one’s means.

There are nearly 8 billion of us destroying what’s left of our planet’s beauty.

Life on a credit card and the never never of a pay check, bragging on social media is not living, its existence at the pleasure of others.

With the interdependence on each other to reverse climate change becoming more and more urgent, before living becomes not worth while, other than it being harvested by an algorithm. It’s time we understand what an algorithm is.

A set of commands that must be followed for a computer to perform calculations or other problem solving operations actions.

Life is an algorithmic process that does not function as a set of commands that cannot be self imposed or enforced or implemented or taught.

It (like an algorithm) never sleeps but we as organic entities must take a rest or die.

Despite many advances the world is still facing many challenges that have plagued life since it began- poverty- wars- hunger etc.

It’s a no brainier that with all of our achievements we have been unable to achieve equality.

Society is no longer a few people you know.

Non organic technology life is out pacing out ability to live a life and given the pace of change it is essential that we stand up for our rights and avoid assumptions that AI is going to benefit one and all.

The question is who is going to adapt to whom?

Us, to the AI bureaucrats or them to us?

The answer is obvious to life, but not to us as we are loosing the ability to think, talk, or tell each other what is at stake.

You are not a person on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or the internet you’re a product to be bought, exploited for profit by self learning algorithms.

This is why all education should be freed, why all health care must free, why a basic living income is essential.

So we all can become spellbound, transfixed, entrenched, arrested, riveted, mesmerised call it what ever, by the beauty of life that set our selves free to come somewhere near living a full life.

All human comments appreciate. All like clicks and abuse chucked in the bin.

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