G.I. Gurdjieff and walking through the desert on stilts… « Revelations From An Unwashed Brain

For anyone who has studied some of the great 19th and 20th century philosophers, life today must seem so incongruous and completely disjointed. G.I. Gurjieff spoke of walking through the desert on stilts as a reference to the thinking man on his trip through the world of non-critical thinkers. In our modern culture, nothing defines a desert so well as the landscape of that media we call television.

Does the number of real estate infomercials on television say anything about the sorry state of television today? It does if you believe that people today live lives that are more diverse than 25 years ago. I remember, when I was a child, that ‘life’ was going to get so much more different , because the world was getting to be a 24 hour place of business. People were going to be working all different times of the day or night, with days off not just on the traditional weekend.

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