Tuning Out the Noise

You become part of the noise subconsciously. You only have to examine the course of your thoughts, for this to become evident.

Reactions to the outside world, triggers, public conversations can all generate the narrative and drama further. To the point where you become like a machine, unable to slow down or stop.

The internal dialogue is set in motion by the stories that play out around you.

The addiction of drama and chaos, spiraling you ever further towards oblivion, towards a breakdown, or just a bad day, a wasted day.

What truly matters?

You want more peace? Less stress? More creativity perhaps, in whatever shape that may be.

Some things may help tone things down. A meditation or a walk in nature, or perhaps a swim in the sea.

But are these more distractions themselves? An escape?

Is the balance we seek sovereignty? The ability to filter out all of the noise and to remain present, even in the most tumultuous of situations.

Reacting is exhausting, so why do we do it?

Perhaps it gives us an identity in a world that tries to shape our very being, to support them in their fight, to buy this thing, to belong to that belief system. All the while we're being manipulated.

Losing sovereignty gives our control away. Our ability to observe at a distance, and not be swept up by the next tide of chaos and drama.

Filtering the noise can lead us to the things that nurture us, allowing us to grow.

So what is growth? Finding your truth?

Some truths we run away or distract from, so joining the noise, the dance if you like, is a distraction in itself.

In the same way that you would perhaps fight for someone else's innocence, we must also fight for our own.

As a person with high anxiety, I still find it strange that when you're acting in the interest of another, you simply overcome it, it no longer has power over you.

It's a reclamation of something lost, or forgotten.

Often the noise is agenda driven, fueled with intention. The currents of which drag us towards an unknown destination. Peace is sought through wars, poverty is covered under a layer of ignorance,exploitation and self preservation. The noise promises but rarely delivers, its purpose to distract us from our own individual thoughts and aspirations, our sparks of existence engulfed by "more pressing matters".

Our "wild" nature becomes civilized and we're told that it's good.

Science was once adopted by free thinkers, people that had sovereignty and the creative spirit to design and develop for the good of humanity. Now it's controlled by market forces and weaponized against us.

Throughout history we are often told to focus on the worst scenarios. The perpetrators are judged as bad, without any explanation as to what happened to them. How did they arrive at their destination? What led up to the inhumanity? Surely that lesson would be worth learning to frame history in its entirety and not just to promote incomplete narratives.

On the surface, the technological age offers us shiny toys and promises of a better world for all. But under the surface, in the murky depths looms perhaps the greatest threat of all, our loss of true identity.

Perhaps one of the most important aspects of the noise, is that it doesn't teach us anything about ourselves, not in the truest sense. By the process of dis-empowerment, it keeps us dumb, unable to see our own truths, only what's on offer. We are told what "intelligence" is through meticulous programming. The very definitions of words are changed, leaving us hurtling towards a dystopia that Orwell warned us so vividly about.

There are tell-tale signs when you are near the actual truth. Often the mechanisms, like sentinels, will come to the programs defence, with the intention of cancelling, shaming, subverting and ultimately destroying those responsible. Only the strong will survive these manoeuvres. Those with strong conviction, unbreakable and steadfast in their actions.

Ultimately it's up to individuals to bring about their own change. As I've said before, the system can challenge a group, a flag, a saviour, a rogue state or organisation.

The need to be visible online, to be present, is so that we are fully monitored, just one step away from the union of man and machine, that Musk and others would like to see happen.

Only by claiming back what's yours, your presence and natural instinct for what is right. Your internal compass can show you which direction to go in, or perhaps to stay put, the calm in the storm.

The noise isn't ours, it's the hum of a well oiled machine, refining and improving itself, not fully revealing its purpose.

The parts that are seemingly ours, are broken by design. And those parts that shouldn't even exist and don't serve humanities needs, function perfectly well, serving the few, giving fuel to the false narratives.

The cost of radical change to the individual will be some degree of isolation, a turning away from things perhaps relied upon and never actually needed. The conditions we place upon ourselves and others will dissipate, leaving space for us to breathe and reflect. Slowly but surely we can put together our own solid foundation of truth, formed through using our own eyes and ears and not just following, but simply being.

Perhaps the noise will change to a feeling of connectedness and sharing. A community of individuals, each different and sovereign, no need to control or compete, just simply to find new ways to overcome difficulty, sharing a "oneness" with each other.