The "Distracted consciousness" differs from the Marxist idea of "false consciousness" in as much as the individual suffering from this state of distraction is no longer fully aware of life around them: they have become a human doing, no longer a human being.
Excerpt taken from 'The Girl with No Mobile Phone', by author Tom Conrad.
“The girl with no mobile phone had never herself seen fit to buy a mobile phone (in all her life) – being not only against them as invaders of privacy, but moreover, viewing mobile phones as symbols of the wider “distracted consciousness”: a curse now plaguing mankind far and wide. In fact, the girl with no mobile phone constantly witnessed many of her peers fingering away (not the good sort of fingering, either), just another distracted soul startled by the desperateness of existence, looking to fill every single waking and terrifying moment of their life with some pointless textual distraction, instead of just confronting and embracing the stillness, just taking a moment to actually think, reflect and be a human being, not a human doing.”
Alternative use:
‘Like OMFG, dude had been playing GTA5 for five days straight before he got up, left his apartment and tried to jack a car by throwing a musical triangle at them.’
‘A musical triangle?’
‘Yeah the thing that goes ding.’
‘Shit, that dude is distracted.’
‘No shit, he's suffering from the distracted consciousness!’
“The girl with no mobile phone had never herself seen fit to buy a mobile phone (in all her life) – being not only against them as invaders of privacy, but moreover, viewing mobile phones as symbols of the wider “distracted consciousness”: a curse now plaguing mankind far and wide. In fact, the girl with no mobile phone constantly witnessed many of her peers fingering away (not the good sort of fingering, either), just another distracted soul startled by the desperateness of existence, looking to fill every single waking and terrifying moment of their life with some pointless textual distraction, instead of just confronting and embracing the stillness, just taking a moment to actually think, reflect and be a human being, not a human doing.”
Alternative use:
‘Like OMFG, dude had been playing GTA5 for five days straight before he got up, left his apartment and tried to jack a car by throwing a musical triangle at them.’
‘A musical triangle?’
‘Yeah the thing that goes ding.’
‘Shit, that dude is distracted.’
‘No shit, he's suffering from the distracted consciousness!’
by Tom Conrad October 8, 2013
the cooperative and mutually consented coexistence of a large number of individuals is cooperative consciousness.
by Baron Neville March 10, 2018
mom: you remember that time you ran around the house naked? you were only a baby.
son: no, that must have been before my age of consciousness
son: no, that must have been before my age of consciousness
by thegravy March 12, 2011
"...a higher form of consciousness than that possessed by the ordinary man." (Richard Maurice Bucke)
It makes more sense when viewed through Cosmic Consciousness.
by MadmanMichael April 21, 2017
Jimmy: God I hate how the people who own the company I work for makes 400x the money I do and because of that ends up having more political power
Jon: Man you finally learning about class consciousness!
Jon: Man you finally learning about class consciousness!
by Pete_Zahutt March 14, 2021
Fits one-to-one with "All I Want For Christmas Is You"
-Hey, Did you know that "Collective Consciousness" fits one -to-one with "All I Want For Christmas Is You"?
-What?
-I am not joking
-What?
-I am not joking
by Guessmyname109 February 26, 2023
noun
the action or responsive action of the social group, to either a political or social environment or condition.
the action or responsive action of the social group, to either a political or social environment or condition.
Tthe revolt of a people against political, social or religious severity, injustice or despotism is cooperative consciousness.
by Baron Neville March 10, 2018