Augmented reality, the environment and Texas history

Created: 2012-08-25 22:57 Updated: 2012-08-27 08:41 Notebook: Notebook Stack/Web History of AZ

If we do not augment our reality we will go insane. We do not have the capability of achieving true enlightenment.

The augmented reality glasses that Google wears as the main device by which he sees the world and it is subsequently a literary device that demonstrates that we all reality or truth is relative. The apple, the water, the trees, vegan diets are all objects or ideas that are human contracts. Additionally we "observe" neurological disorders as an inability to perceive the world as it really is, but we as humans are ultimately unable to do so on many other levels. The trancelike state we are in when we dance and listen to music is a metaphor for the way in which we can be perceived from the outside. We augment our realities such that an outside may have no clue what our role is with the earth and it's environs.

Christian's struggle with PTSD from the Iraq War is no different than the trauma of being human. We want to augment our realities because we are in pain. Our senses are on overload with the amount of information that we have to deal with on a daily basis. We struggle at the borders of our conflicting ideologies in the same way that nations struggle to maintain good relations when in direct competition for markets and loyal citizens.

Texas is a modern crossroads of civilizations and ideologies. From the comanche to the dot.com-er, this place has served as the backdrop, the augmented realities glasses for these people. The university represents mankind's ability to logically augment his world, while the other aspects such as food, entertainment and medicine serve to augment our world in emotional ways.

Christian has seen the extreme side of inhumanity and cannot come to terms with what he saw. He's constantly buying new sunglasses because he is sensitive to light (truth) and he's always thinking that there is a better pair out there. He is weary of food, because it makes him feel weak (human) and therefore he's always trying to overcome his emotional attachment to it. When he feels life he needs to truly escape (clear his mind - his human interference with truth), he dances. Sometimes it's with another, two-steppin or salsa and meringue, but other times he just wants to rave, to lose himself in his own heartbeat. To hear the blood rushing through his veins. And when it comes to his health, he simply allows fate to decide for him. He doesn't want the interpretations of any doctor or therapist to add any more conflict to his own internal search for truth.

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