Compression sickness has infected everything
Catalogue of becoming.
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I surround, protect, purify and make harmless the following in-formation.
Bloated with knowledge, starved for wisdom
We've created a culture that treats depth like inefficiency. One that wants love without awkwardness, wisdom without confusion, transformation without the growing pains that crack us open and rebuild us from the inside out. And in doing so, we've accidentally engineered away the most essentially human experiences: the productive confusion of not knowing, the generative power of sitting with difficulty, the transformative potential of things that resist compression.
Story telling
The oral tradition understood how meaning emerges not from the extraction of key points but from total immersion in the telling. The Homeric epics weren't designed to be summarized, but designed to be lived through. Medieval monks spent years copying manuscripts by hand, and yes that was “inefficient,” but the act of transcription was itself a form of meditation, a way of letting the text work its changes slowly through the scribe's consciousness! The copying was the reading. The labor was the learning.
Complex ideas required communal struggle
The early universities (Bologna, Paris, Oxford) were built around the radical idea that complex ideas required communal struggle. Students and masters gathered for disputations that could last hours, wrestling with questions that had no easy answers.
Knowledge wasn't something you collected but something that collected you; reshaping your thoughts, your questions, your very way of being in the world.
Somewhere along the way, perhaps with the rise of industrial efficiency, perhaps with the commodification of education, perhaps with the acceleration of information capitalism, we began to mistake information for knowledge, and knowledge for wisdom. We began to believe the value of an experience could be separated from the experience itself, the essence of things could be extracted and consumed like vitamins, leaving the rest behind as waste.
This compression culture doesn't just change how we think, I argue it changes what we expect from every aspect of human experience! We've trained ourselves to believe that complexity can always be whittled down, that difficulty can always be optimized away, that transformation should be instant and effortless.
The things that matter most
Love, wisdom, skill, character — resist compression for the same reason great literature does. They exist in their full particularity, in the accumulation of small moments, in the patient repetition that looks like nothing from the outside but is everything on the inside.
Compression changes the compressor
Highlights https://substack.com/@maalvika?utm_source=byline
Shaping of mass psychology
Continues at https://maalvika.substack.com/p/compression-culture-is-making-you
Without prejudice and without recourse
Doreen Agostino
Our Greater Destiny Blog
psychology
Good Morning. That's a pretty tall order. All of it is common sense to those of us who have done the research over the years. But it takes time to absorb all of the facts and becoming cognizant to the dangers that surround us. Most people's mental and spiritual capacities have been handicapped because of the very reasons that you listed. It takes time, time that seems to be rapidly running out. From my perspective, it looks like nothing short of Divine intervention is our only hope at this point. All we can do is get the information out there and look within for spiritual guidance and preparation. Some say that we've been put here for a purpose during these challenging times. Buckle up! We're in for a wild ride!
Perhaps. There does seem to be an awakening with the Gaza genocide. And in the slo-mo genocide of the Western peoples. The $64,000 question is the awakening too late. The Trojan horse has been in the gate for a long time. We are at the tail end of our cultural demise.