If you accept the premise 'You are what you eat', meaning ultimately you are physically composed of what you consume....good and bad.....then it stands to reason you are what you think, meaning your reality is composed of what you consume and thereby think and/or believe.....good and bad.
As the image of the deeply, and beautifully, eroded rock in the image above demonstrates, the slow drip and steady wind of social, political and economic conditioning and propaganda can break down the hardest substances. Our only defense is to be forever mindful of who and what we are....and what we consume.
It is with this thought in mind that I present a blast from the past by Neil Kramer from back in July of 2008, an oldie but goodie if you will.
Have you ever walked into a public bathroom and suddenly realized you're in the wrong one? Where's the urinal's? Or maybe you've entered a room expecting to join a meeting and you quickly realize you're in the wrong one. Oops! Or you turn a corner expecting to see one thing and you find something entirely different. I almost walked off the top of a building that way. These are all examples of reality being 'real' and our expectations being entirely wrong.
Well.......I had a midnight visitor last night and he was the one suffering from severe disorientation. Mrs. Cog and I had so much fun with the images, video and narrative she decided to cook up a video and short story to post so you could enjoy it too.
Please join me in reading (and watching) Playing Possum.
Please stick with this piece dear reader for it does not end on the same path from which it starts.
Being a child of the 50’s and 60’s, it comes as no surprise to anyone from that era that I’m a bit of a space buff. From the moment I saw my first televised rocket launch I was hooked and have never fully recovered from my childhood obsession. Beginning with Project Mercury and the suborbital flight of Alan Shepard in 1961, followed shortly by the three orbits of John Glenn, then progressing through Project Gemini where America practiced the space skills needed to eventually land on the moon and culminating with the Apollo Program and (supposedly) several trips to the moon, one thing they all had in common was the seriousness of everyone involved. Going to space was serious business performed by serious people. There was no joking around because failure wasn’t an option. Continue reading Tighten Those Chin Straps Folks Because Here Comes a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly (RUD)→
