What day, month, or year is it?

Time is our reference point.

Here in Prague we have entered into another severe lock-down as Covid cases rise to unprecedented levels. Covid attributed deaths are on the rise too. Outdoor time is limited to the essentials. For example, going for a walk that stretches beyond 500 meters [unless on a quest for food, medicine, or other essentials] is deemed to be a breach of the current Covid restrictions. And so each new day blends into night and then the cycle repeats. It is March 2021 and signs of an early Spring approaching are evident however the sameness of life today is truly confronting [see photo].

The sameness of life for those who live inside "the collective" is what I first noted around 2008. Later around 2015 I began to write a novel about the harm this syndrome is doing to the social evolution of humans. At first the book title was "memes". But now as I struggle to correct it for all the poor writing in it I think of it as my entry into "the sixth dimension". Inside the 400 plus pages is a story of social evolution in the C21st as seen by a group of researchers who are working on such matters at the end of the century. They begin working with AI bots and soon then move onto the subject of human minds. Note that I said human "minds" not "brains". Indeed they are actually studying the impact of memes on various states of mindfulness. And it is the state of mindfulness that I feel I must address here.

We live in a time and space when "the collective" establishes the context for our lives. And as the collective has become so uniformly wedded to their notion of "equity" the world is being reset in ways that make little or no sense to me. To me the term equity means that one has an appropriate share of something. But to the collective it means that one has to share a certain outcome in life. And so that means one must think a certain way, act a certain way, and believe a certain way. The equitable outcome therefore is "sameness".

I shunned my life of sameness around seven years ago. I became a minimalist which in my world is someone who thinks for himself, acts in accordance with who he truly is, and believes in ideals, values, and mores that support him as an individual.

Richard.