You start by arguing the original gathering of information came from conversation and conclude by arguing we might cure the propensity to be carried along on the streams and rivers of mass opinion by simply living physically. Which raises the question of whether this basic physical being and doing isn’t the primary source of information, with conversation as the original media?

For example, the culture tells me that time is the point of the present, moving past to future, while my own personal experience is that it is change, turning future to past. As in tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

It just seems the flow is past to future, much like it seems the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, because that is our perspective, as mobile, intentional organisms, with a sequential process of perception.

Then we do tell stories to one another and those most often repeated are those with the most compelling conclusions and lessons. So we then assume life must be about the ends and means is simply how to get there, from heaven, to the bottom line.

Which would also ignore the primal fact of reality, that it is all about the cycles of feedback occurring in this physical state of the present. Such that when we reach our goals, they lack the luster our dreams gave them.

So now we have magnified and compounded the process, through our mass media, rushing off to who knows where. The result resembles a bad dream, spiraling out of control, with no sense of when we will wake up.