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Reality Overload - The Modern World's Assault on the Imaginal Realm (Paperback)
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Reality Overload - The Modern World's Assault on the Imaginal Realm (Paperback)
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A powerful critique of the increasing mechanization and
homogenization of modern life
- Shows how the constant force-feeding of too much information
dispossesses us of our deepest connections
- Describes a link between the destruction of the environment with
the assault on our individuality, creativity, and ability to think
for ourselves
What underlies the many problems of the modern world--from
accelerating rates of extinction and desertification to the
increased alienation of the individual--is a reality overload, an
increasingly invasive mechanization and homogenization of modern
life that glorifies consumption and conformity. This overload has
been created from the constant force-feeding of too much
information, a phenomenon that dispossesses us of our deepest
connections to time, our physical world, and each other.
Annie Le Brun explains that the degradation of the environment
mirrors the devastation going on in our minds revealing a link
between genetically modified foods and the transformation and decay
of our language and communication. There is a direct relationship
between the rupture of the great biological balances that govern
the planet and the equally devastating rupture in our imaginal
realm. The imaginal realm is the home of our dreams and the
perceptions that feed our thoughts, individuality, and creativity.
Without its influence we are forced to live a drab, alienated
lifestyle based on consumption alone. If, as Shakespeare claims,
"we are such stuff as dreams are made on," this theft of our
imagination by the reality overload threatens the very foundations
of our existence.
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