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.”
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‘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
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the cooperative and mutually consented coexistence of a large number of individuals is cooperative consciousness.
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expounds a predisposed mindset, view or directive imposed upon the social group collective by subversive and coercive means. A measure at times implemented in an attempt at coercing and as such manipulating state elections and also a societies moral and social compass.
expounds a predisposed mindset, view or directive imposed upon the social group collective by subversive and coercive means. A measure at times implemented in an attempt at coercing and as such manipulating state elections and also a societies moral and social compass.
In Democracies primarily where the voice of its citizens via the Ballot Box define the state's policies etc. , the collective consciousness measure is a primary tool used by the state so to dictate upon the people a predisposed state desired outcome.
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An art-conscious person supports up-and-coming artists and living artists instead of old masters or dead artists. An art-conscious person is also open to the new movements and trends of the contemporary art scene. He or she believes in equality in the art world (gender, racial, geographical, sexual, etc.). Always in the look out for the best new talent who can be based anywhere in the world.
An art-conscious person supports up-and-coming artists and living artists instead of old masters or dead artists. An art-conscious person is also open to the new movements and trends of the contemporary art scene. He or she believes in equality in the art world (gender, racial, geographical, sexual, etc.). Always in the look out for the best new talent who can be based anywhere in the world.
She is not only eco-conscious, she's art-conscious too. She just bought a huge painting from a Hungarian female artist.
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son: no, that must have been before my age of consciousness
son: no, that must have been before my age of consciousness
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There's nothing unusual about getting self-conscious, since even if you try to do everything perfect, its not gonna be perfect, and you're gonna do some human shit and you're not gonna feel proud of what you did. The most self conscious people in the world are the ones that keep telling you they don't care what anybody thinks of them.
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