sloth pandemic

This morning, despite the gloomy weather I feeling light & its allowed me to look around & reflect on the apathy, disengagement & unhappy busyness I see. New cars flashing about at speed, heads buried in screens & the lack pf care for anyone outside of immediate family or oneself.

Much of this appears are Greed; a deep love of one's possessions. But I'm focusing on a lack of goodwill, or caring, falling rates of volunteer work & obesity. The latter has become an industry to supposedly explain the cause & offer (expensive) remedies; gym memberships often unused, weight loss or strength powders, personal trainers, stomach surgery, yoga with children, dogs or SUP boards. As they say ffs. Years past people would step back & take time to reason things out to determine root causes.

Anyway, I'm calling this a Pandemic of Sloth. "Sloth is a sorrow or boredom with the spiritual life [& a preoccupation with] busyness, workaholism, entertainment, news, sports, drunkenness, drug use, pornography, or sex ... & idleness (phone use).


Constantly I am looking upwards to those pulling our strings; corporations & governments to consider their input. Would they like people to work from home, fill the gaps on their social or spiritual core via over consumption, then become even more confused, blindlessly amused, depressed & obese that they literally cannot move or even think straight? Well, it would ensure taxes & bills are paid, commerce is booming & people are not unionised or share a collective consciousness & are so docile & more easily controlled. Of course corporations & governments have designed it this way & we are the fools.

Antidotes to sloth include:-

Rest to refocus on the purpose of life.

·       Detach from bodily pleasures to grow spiritually hungry.

RESIST THE OPPRESSION PEOPLE



Reference materials from:- The Holy Family School of Faith & Wall E movie

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