The Essence Of Facebook…...From ‘Emergence’ Magazine….
by Bernie Bell - 08:58 on 11 November 2024
The Essence of Facebook…..
Someone I know, have known for many years, wrote what he considered to be a jokey piece of text and posted it on his FB page on Remembrance Sunday with an accompanying mock-up picture of himself as a fighter pilot.
The picture was tasteless enough, but the text took tastelessness and insensitivity to another level – ending with the words ‘I don’t like to talk about it’.
Many people who fought in the ‘last’ war say that – or simply don’t say anything about it because they experienced sights and emotions that we can’t conceive of.
I wondered whether to say what I thought, or not. I decided to do so and commented that I thought the post was tasteless. He deleted my comment.
I can’t quote his piece of text now as I then removed him from my list of Facebook friends as people who think that something like that is funny and who delete criticism, however mild, are not my people.
To me, this is the essence of much of Facebook interaction – we are all to agree and pat each other on the back for being clever and funny – even when we’re not. Any dissenting voices, are silenced.
People want to have lots of FB ‘friends’ and so are reluctant to say anything which might result in them being ‘unfriended’.
It’s a mockery of what human interaction and friendship is meant to be.
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine….
by Tusharr Madhavv
“For me art and life are a silent continuum.”
We think today’s story is apt to share after what unfolded earlier this week, and not only because it’s titled Detour. As many of us struggle to process the outcome of the election, we at Emergence are turning to the imaginal—not as an escape, but as a space to pause and reflect. The work of artists, like the one in this film, can take us to the intersection of the physical and spiritual realms and bring us into the mystery of the living world. It’s in these spaces that we find solace, inspiration, and breath.
Making its premiere on Emergence, Detour draws us into the world of Indian artist Jangarh Singh Shyam, who painted the mystical folklore of his Indigenous Pardhan Gond community, depicting fearsome deities, mysterious spirits, and the rich flora and fauna of his native Madhya Pradesh forest, with striking color and animacy. Translating ancestral songs and stories into acrylic and canvas, he gave birth to a new tradition of Gond visual art practice. Reflecting on his images, he wrote, “This is how I see my fear in its primary vibrations—tiger, dense banyan, colorful poisonous insects filled with the fluid of fear, love and beauty.” Directed by Indian moving-image artist Tusharr Madhavv, and produced in collaboration with If/Then Shorts as part of our Shifting Landscapes documentary program, this film traces Jangarh’s journey from India to France to Japan, and offers a glimpse into the spiritual realm of this artist’s soul—a meeting place of beauty and fear; the mythological and the human.
https://emergencemagazine.org/film/detour/
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