screens

Everything we perceive- thoughts, emotions, feelings, and senses, are experienced through a screen. A filter that has been developing since childhood, that is our conditioning both innate and built by the environment. All of the schooling, social institutions, beliefs, traditions, and other data composes the essence of who we are, or consider ourselves to be. So then, we lose the capacity to be alone. Not to be lonely- but to stand by oneself and disregard all authority past and present. Social media maintains the illusion of keeping us connected, but who is connected? Is it the me who needs validation, security, the portrayal of power? The authorities we create capitalize on our education that teaches us we need to accumulate more and more. Not just knowledge, but greed, possessions, status, and a sense of self importance that all lead to decay of the mind, and therefore society. Clean the window of your mind, investigate into whether you can be free of the past. Not for yourself, but for the whole of mankind.

-S.L

Art by Andrea Platt