We live in a time without consecration…

Hypercommunication,
the noise of communication,
desecrates the world, profanes it.
Stillness produces nothing.
Capitalism therefore dislikes stillness.
Information capitalism produces the compulsion of communication.

Stillness sharpens our sense for the higher order, which, however,
need not be an order of rule or power.
Stillness can be extremely peaceful,
even friendly and deeply delightful.
A ruling power may be able to silence the subjugated,
but an enforced silence is not stillness.
Real silence knows no compulsion.
It does not subjugate;
it elevates.
It does not take away,
but gives.

-excerpt Non-things, Stillness by Byung-chul Han, p. 76

Everybody Wants To Rule The World

by Tears For Fears

Welcome to your life
There’s no turning back
Even while we sleep
We will find you

Acting on your best behaviour
Turn your back on mother nature
Everybody wants to rule the world

It’s my own design
It’s my own remorse
Help me to decide
Help me make the most

Of freedom and of pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world

There’s a room where the light won’t find you
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
When they do I’ll be right behind you

So glad we’ve almost made it
So sad they had to fade it
Everybody wants to rule the world

I can’t stand this indecision
Married with a lack of vision
Everybody wants to rule the world
Say that you’ll never never never never need it
One headline why believe it?
Everybody wants to rule the world

All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world

Lyrics by Roland Orzabal