⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION   Ed. No. 143 - CHANGE UPON CHANGE UPON CHANGE

PIC: Mick Jagger (1975-76) by Andy Warhol

"I can't get no satisfaction." Mick Jagger sang it. The world is now living it.

A World in frenetic change. Why?

Is the reason why we live in a world of frantic change 

because we are not finding 

what we are looking for in what we are doing?

I visited my regular coffee shop with its regular friendly staff and its regular satisfying menu recently to read the morning newspaper like regular. But I couldn't sit in my regular favourite spot, hidden around a corner out of sight of most eyes, because a great whopping fridge had replaced the table and two chairs that had been there forever.

It had been a week where I had faced so many changes to what is regular to me that this sight was one change too much. It made me laugh out loud.

And over that preceding week I have also observed the real struggles people are having with the change in their lives. A real fight is going on within those who want the status quo to remain the same and life that is in constant renewal. So very painful for some.

And so very painful to see.

Deep down I pondered though what is so much of the change swirling around us now all about?

The Coffee Shop Manager then just happened to come into my orbit giving assurance the fridge placement was only temporary until they find a more suitable location for this unwieldy ice box. 

But the nature of things is that change is constant. We all know that.
It's just that the reactive shock wave of change that was released post Covid is starting to wear on us all I believe. It might be described as a G force calamity.

It is making more than some people angry, unhappy and dysfunctional in the normal sense.

I question too that change is generated by some to justify their occupations on which they rely for income. Change for change sake is just being selfish. And change as in the rising cost of living is fuelled by our Fear of Missing Out. Again selfishness.

There's a lot to be said for regularity unless it becomes rut. A person can invest a lot of energy over the years into at least trying to keep life simple and regular. I'm not anti-change but when it is unrelenting over a longer period of time it throws you off balance. In fact it is becoming dizzying. TOO MUCHIE! 

We're now getting change happening so fast that things are not being done properly nor can you get something done practically because communications are so fractious. People aren't communicating they're practicing what might be called fastspeak, blather, barfing or just plain old babble. 

Take your pick. 

It's shallow gobbledegook. 

But it's not communication.

Too many young people talk so fast that their words are just indecipherable. 

What are they trying to race to keep up with? Quantity of life is no substitute for quality.

Just to look at one area of change our Technology is going through the stratosphere with complexity and its speed of change. One minute there was no AI and the next minute it's the talk of the town? The times in our world when there was the courtesy to take you on the journey have passed. The collective freneticism now demands that you run to keep up. Do the tech heads know where they are taking us or does the insatiable overdrive within these over the top achievers just keep going no matter what?

Which brings us to the question 

where is all of this accelerated change 

leading us to anyway?

Nah, it all adds up to the fact that we are running out of options to satisfy our drive for satisfaction and exponentially being driven to our wits end. This craziness and dysfunction will continue to escalate until we start looking in the right direction to find what we are looking for - within inside. 

Lemmings can only be advised to watch out for the cliffs ahead. Neville

WHERE ARE WE HEADING?

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Artwork: The Rise or Fall of Western Civilization? [Detail]

[Study for "THE AMERICAN DREAM"(after Whiteley)]

Artist: Neville Williams ©️Arts Law Australia

Full Size: 122cm (W) x 61cm (H) x 4cm (D)

Media: Digital prints and collage, oil pastel, US dollar coin
on stretched canvas.

POA

To read a synopsis of this artwork 
and to see more of this artist’s work go to:- 
NevilleWilliamsArt

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NEXT TIME 

Lemmings or individuals?

• Celebrate life!

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What is your vision for YOO?

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