The Eye of Time: Are We Just Witnesses? (Part Two)

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Considering the speed at which life now moves and how much life has become increasingly complex, making ethical decisions, if they are to be ethical at all, has become more and more difficult. Freedom, my friends, is all that it's cracked up to be and less. With freedom we can choose whatever we want, whenever we want it. This, of course, does not always lead to wise decisions, even when we value wisdom.

When we consider this within the context of an increasingly more decadent world, the difficulty of making wise decisions grows ever more difficult. Afterall, when you can please yourself in 1,000 or even 1,000,000 different ways that any adult can now do, do you not feel even more torn between what you want and what you need? what you need now and what you need in the future? what you experience has showed to be good for you and what you want despite how bitchy your experience has been? what you want for yourself and what you want for your community? what you can afford and what you cannot? what your family needs and what you think will be just a little too expensive but not-too-too-expensive so you can't quite convince yourself that you don't need it? what you have knoweldge of and what sexy knoweldege somebody will proffer for a fee? what your libido will seek out and what your partner will want with you? what you will say or do and what you want your kids to say and do? what is good for this generation and what will be good for the next?

So, ethics...

Do you have time for them now? How deeply do you want to consider them?

The maelstrom of perceptions is circling us, drowning thought in sensual life. You have to act and you want to be ethical but do you really have the time to think about it? Act or think: can we still afford think before we act? Or is that only afford by the rich? the powerful? the people who call the shots instead of those of us who have to react to the shots being called? the people at the top of the great pyramid scheme we call late capitalism?

The eye of time can see no better in the past than now. It can see just as far and just as wide. But now there is so much more to see, so much more to be fascinated by, so much more to be gawk at and drink down for its intoxicating pleasures, so much more to ponder upon and consider.

Watch out. Don't blink. Don't stop looking.

You are the eye of time.