Our modern capitalist, corporate based society has robbed women and children of much of the quality time infants and young children desperately need in order to maintain genuine feelings of attachment and belonging. The isolated modern American family requires two incomes in order to meet the basic needs for survival. Stressed out overworked women just don’t have the time to meet the genuine emotional needs of their children, and so they find ways of distracting the children from their unmet needs. TV, iPads, and smartphones are all sources of entertainment for children, designed to distract them from their need for attention. Children’s games like Pokémon are great distractors and a great source of stimulation. In fact stimulation in our society has become an addiction. Children’s TV shows and games are designed to entertain and stimulate, capturing the attention of the child and distracting them from an inner sense of dis-ease arising from the weakening bond with their overworked mother. Who through no fault of her own is emotionally unavailable to the child, as a result of her stress levels. This lack of emotional availability creates an inner emptiness within the child, the child becomes restless, irritable and discontent. The child’s emotional state is stressful for the mother who finds a quick fix by parking the child in front of the TV to provide artificial but distracting stimulation. This results in overstimulation of the child’s nervous system to which they have become habituated, or comfortable with. Since this type of stimulation is novel and exciting, children desire to continue with it and a psychological dependence develops. However after a while this level of stimulation no longer produces the same level of excitement, in other words it becomes boring since the body has developed tolerance to this level of stimulation. Now the child needs more of the stimulant to achieve the same levels of excitement. Faster paced more exciting, more stimulating forms of entertainment are required to produce the same effect, and so the process of progression has begun.
In severe cases many young boys will progress up the intensity scale all the way to violent video games and become addicted to them, spending hours every day in front of a screen playing war games and killing. Their fantasy life begins to revolve around violence, they are not repulsed by it, they are habituated to it and have a high level of tolerance for it. For some it won’t be long before they act out their inner life and commit real active violence in the world. Many school shootings are committed by very wounded teenage boys addicted to violent video games, and it all started out so innocently with Pokémon, and has ended up with so much suffering.
The psychological and emotional costs of the modern families dependence upon capitalism are horrific. We see the results every day, the broken, shattered lives, the opioid epidemic, the suicide epidemic, The mental health crises, the wars and the migration crises they have produced, the homelessness, the growth in the prison population, the suffering is endless, and yet we fail to address the cause. We are to afraid to look at capitalism and the corporate globalist agenda, and where it is leading us, which is to extinction. like all addicts, we live in denial.
Capitalism’s planned destruction of the extended family has isolated the nuclear family and made it very dependent and vulnerable to the corporate state. This situation has been progressing exponentially for the past two hundred years and today even the nuclear family is under attack in a further attempt to isolate and marginalize every human being. Isolated, lonely humans are very vulnerable, easily manipulated and controlled. Total domination, dependence and control is the corporate agenda and they are well on their way to succeeding. Unfortunately their destructive agenda will very shortly destroy the world. We humans stand at edge of near term human extinction. The psychopathology of corporate greed is a totally destructive form of insanity. Our society is insanely marching towards extinction to the corporate beat.
Having passed all the tipping points leading to our extinction due to our wounded state of dependence we must finally become willing to transcend death by overcoming the world. We must finally recognize the the true purpose of life was always to overcome our worldly desires and attachments that bind us the the wheel of life, suffering and death. We truly were sent into the world to overcome our attachments and desires, but as a result of our childhood trauma we have become addicted to them and we and the planet suffer as a result of our addictions to power, prestige, wealth and pleasure. Our worldly ambitions and addiction to success are all manifestations of our separation and isolation from our true Self and the journey to compassion based individuation. Only the fully individuated Soul can overcome the world and transcend death. We were born to become transcendent, and not slaves to capitalism, worshipping the god of money and never ending growth.
The time to awaken is now, we must wake up to our plight, the diagnosis is terminal, the end is near. Our woundedness has caused us to live unconsciously in a state of illusion that has lead us to a state of delusion and despair. Being unconscious there is no blame, but remaining unconscious today is a choice. Change is painful, but pain is essential for our rebirth and growth. Giving up our addictions will result in painful withdrawal, but freedom, enlightenment and transcendence are the results. The true meaning of love is compassion.