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ZOMBIES
Zombies do exist. They
are very real. There are people who are dead, though they think they are alive
and so do others. They are the walking emotional dead who have become so
apathetic, numb, tough and uncaring that they are dead inside. The phenomenon
exists to degrees. It is not an all or nothing at all issue. We tend to think
that someone is either dead or alive, but all life and death is a matter of
degrees and emotional life and death is no exception to that universal rule. One
can most certainly be partially emotionally dead and/or emotionally dead on one
or some aspects of one's emotional level of being. In fact, most of us
are. Though it is primarily the emotional structure that is affected, this is a
moral/spiritual, not an emotional, phenomenon.
It is toward those people
that industries aim their advertising. This and more, the
entertainment industry as well as other industries, by violently accosting our
emotions, senses, sensibilities and moral structures, intentionally create emotional
numbness, atrophy and finally gangrene and death.
The fact
that those who run businesses are entirely aware of the fact that the populace
is emotionally traumatized and that they encourage and capitalize on that is
proven by this article: http://tinyurl.com/8p3zg . Not only is our emotional pain being preyed
upon cynically and manipulated to the purposes of the wealthy, note, if you
will, that many of the colors are given the names of food. Thus, they tighten the double bind of wanting
to be skinny enough to fit into fashions, yet being obsessed with food and
associating it with emotional comfort more than the nourishing of the body.
When people are deadened
emotionally their ability to experience subtle emotions is impaired, often
obliterated entirely. All they can feel are the most intense thrills and
sensations. The threshold is continuously being pushed higher by
Western culture and the cash registers register every increment.
When we
can no longer feel subtle and sublime emotion, but only the most visceral, we
are no longer capable of morality, for the wellspring of morality is the
rarified sublimity that is aroused in the heart. Those experiences are
translated to magnificent visions by the mind. If we cannot feel the
ethereal, we cannot envision a better and more just world.
Near total indifference to
the suffering of others does not come quickly or easily. It is a long, excruciating process that can
take years or decades. Until people give
up caring at all they flail pathetically to feel something, anything.
Thus, they buy more, try more, collect experiences
that they pay for dearly.
The people in the most
advanced stages of this state can feel only one thrill - the thrill of power and
that is why they clutch at it as they do and will go to any and all lengths not
to relinquish it. The stage beyond being
able to feel only the thrill of power is the abyss of oblivion. Knowing that they have sold their Souls they
dread this stage as they know it is their final end.
Doreen
Ellen Bell-Dotan,