Non-Linear

We accept the stories we’re shown without questioning who framed them or what was left out. We do much the same to ourselves, editing memories and filtering the present through beliefs we’ve outgrown.

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In film editing, every cut can change the narrative, tone, meaning, and perspective.

We can rearrange a moment so a hero becomes a villain, a truth becomes a lie, a boon becomes a burden, a friend becomes a foe.

And that’s just visually… With sound, music, color, effects, filters, and more, the reality being presented is endlessly mutable, limited only by the imagination, inclination, and intent of the content creator.

Hollywood routinely revises history, distorts facts, and injects fiction, all while coloring our present and imagined futures in dark, oppressive, often violent tones.

We may package it as “entertainment,” but seeds take root. Given the sheer volume of negatively biased noise out there, it’s up to us to choose how much toxicity and vacuous sludge we’re willing to absorb.

We, too, need to recognize how we edit, filter, and manipulate our own memories, stories, realities, and timelines… often unwittingly pulling ourselves away from the present, our conscious and creative point of power, through unnatural ideas and adopted beliefs.

You are more. You are the everything, entangled. Look again.

Solvitur ambulando