Newminimalists develop a unique version of brain sight.
The trauma of the Coronavirus pandemic including the social distancing, and the associated economic collapse, has one side effect that you may suffer from but are not yet fully aware of. In short, I believe that this 2020 global disaster may have caused your brain blindness.*
When you self-isolate, put on a mask in public, and refrain from interacting with familial you dramatically change the way your brain works. Add the absence of the social stimulus of being in a workplace which is under-rated as a modern anchor for your perceptions of life. Add to that the fact that money is being dropped into your bank account by a national government because you earned money inside that jurisdiction in the past 12 months. Add to that the stress of having no savings, a maxed-out credit card, and no guarantee that your last job will still be there when this 2020 economy is deemed to be fully open again.
Brain blindness is a common syndrome in 2020 and so you need to be aware of it and guard against the worst side-effects of it. The impact on your life of these radical 2020 changes is not obvious when you are suffering from brain blindness. In simple terms whatever you did on brain automata in 2019 is problematic in 2020. How you button your shirt, get out of bed, tie your shoes, brush your teeth, etc is all automata activities that are guided by the great algorithms embedded deep inside your brain which you never have to think about. But what will happen to you if your 2019 brain algorithms shut down or become less than reliable? Clearly some of you who are reading this riff will know the answer to that question because you understand that you are aware of your brain blindness today [6th July 2020].
The human brain is great at handling incremental change because we are all wedded to continuity. This means that discontinuity, ambiguity, uncertainty, and illusion lie outside our traditional lines of continuity. In turn, this means that the human brain is not so surefooted in dealing with the perception of the different. It is the "shock of the different" in 2020 that will become the great legacy of this viral pandemic and economic shutdown. Indeed I believe that those of you who have established very traditional lines of continuity for life are at the greatest risk of suffering flare-ups of 2020 brain blindness.
My cure for 2020 brain blindness is for you to design, curate, and energise a new line of continuity for life. One swift way to do this is to switch your cerebral focus from a search for the "meaning of life" to a search for a "purpose for life". That simple switch in focus will set you free from many of the traditional lines of continuity that keep you trapped in your flare-ups of brain blindness. Ultimately the changes you make to your life, to deal with the impact of 2020 brain blindness, will alter your perceptions of the world around you.
In conclusion. Check your perceptions of all these 2020 structural, social, and economic changes. Are you forming new perceptions of your work, income, housing, healthcare, etc needs? What changes are you being forced to make to your life, where you live, what work you do, etc? Those are some key questions for you as you prepare to deal with the "shock of the different".
Richard.
* Disclaimer. There are many forms of brain associated blindness and so please note that this simple riff is in no way meant to be a comment on the results of medical research into those and related presenting issues. I suggest that the curious reader do his or her own research on the paradox of cortical blindness.
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