Shot By Brock

You don’t need to go far to find something or someone to be angry at. If it isn’t our eyeballs and our attention that turns the golden bloated cogs of the attention economy, it’s our anger. The more enraged we become, the more tribalised we become, the more morally offended we become, the faster the wheels turn, and the more our manipulated emotions become currency. So how do we avoid becoming spiritual fodder for the political/economic meat grinder? Could kindness be the answer? Our lives happen in high definition. Every minute of every day is filled with vast amounts of information, much of it with added emotional and spiritual value. Someone smiled at us. We stubbed out toe. Our children aren’t feeling well. Is my manager angry at me? I hate this song on the radio. The shop has run out of my favourite breakfast cereal. What’s that awful politician done now? But we generally see other people’s lives in low definition. They become two-dimensional characters in the soap operas of our lives. We are only privy