I'm sitting here watching that commercial with actor Chuck Norris and model Christie Brinkley. You know the commercial that shows them using the latest new workout machine. They're smiling and pushing stretching with other people who have these athletic bodies. They want you to go out and buy it. They have these models in the video too for simply marketing self-image purposes. But you know what I'm talking about. Its all a bit slanted view of reality. They show you nothing but movement. And that is all we see. Movement. The media is that ever-present picture of movement. Moving pictures and images they call it.
But where is there stillness? What would happen if there was simply a moment of stillness shown through the screen? Nay, the controllers live in their ice castles and command their minions to paid orders and the people so lovingly follow their commands. What will you say to the screen? We tell you! What will you not say? We tell you. Everything shown: edited, rearranged, thrown out, replaced...kind of like life and our beliefs about ourselves and the world.
What if we saw stillness through our eyes? What would we see?
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