On an ever Spinning Wheel

 

Round and round on an ever spinning wheel?

On the eve of a long weekend, traffic sprawls and airport queues occur.  Double or triple demerits are imposed on vehicle drivers.  Bowser petrol prices spike. No one in authority can do anything about it.

Trees seasonaly lose their leaves when they are deciduous.
Flora slow down in growth as the Earth embraces longer hours of night.  Yet the winds blow and temperatures plummet off whack in timing - but they are all part and parcel of the power of Nature.

What is on offer as food continue to be more processed and artificialised.   Produce not so tainted with chemicals, hormones and additives are harder to source.   Fresh produce are increasingly made available in predetermined sizes and shapes.  Nutrients as body and health friendly are deemphasised in the rush for convenience and commercial profits.

Society is portrayed by media as divisive, aggressive and negatively competitive. Compliance and regulation can be out runned by powerful connections and funding.
Hidden brokers and forces overly influence our authorities.  There is more talk than action, more noise than results.

Each of us are subject to more addiction, delusion and distraction.  We are collectively more dependent on a growing global grid of what is incalculated to us as our needs.  We are rarely offered a pause and opportunity to reflect on whether we really require what we are constantly shaped to need and want.

Labels, titles and names continue to be misleading.   More access to information and data does not translate to better use of them.  Are more people more fallible to transitionary and temporal things?  Or are more people losing faith and trust in what we are asked to do and believe?

Evolution and transformation can oddly at times reinforce rhe same, or bring us in a round circle varying between the new and the old.  Conflict can make us personally grow better, but do politics, nations and social cultures really change?

Do we trust our professions as much when strong signs emerge that they can be pressured or bought?  Are some occupations just out to limit privilege and power?  Do we feel more optimistic or not about the advent of new technology, same old geopolitics and the stranglehold of belief?

Is it better that we have more contactless transactions, instantaneous gratification and widespread communication?  What are the implications of a throw away society that devalues repairs and heritage?

Specific nations can be stuck with their own peculiar obsessions.  These get reinforced in seemingly logical ways but not to outside observers.   Whether they are arms ownership and misuse, religious justification, historical tradition, economic prowess, political distractions or survival strategies, such obsessions serve a covert or overt purpose in its modus operandi.

So willingly, unknowingly or being forced, each of us are participants in various aspects of this spinning wheel.

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