SHADOWS

4 June, 2021

Edited: 12 March, 2025

Never before have so many spoken with such volume and said so little.

At the time of first publishing this is 2021, 50% of the world’s population had access to a mobile device known as a ‘smart phone’. 4 years later in 2025, 60% now have access and the ability to tap into the global hive mind. Yet 100% of the world’s population is in possession of a device that allows them to tap into the global spirit.

Shrouded by our shadows, our global inhabitants focus on imposing rather than addressing, internally, what these silhouettes of ourselves are, and how they relate to us. Rather than internalize out emotions about external factors, our species is at a point where it’s easier to PROJECT, rather than contemplate the difficulties associated with

Modernization has given way to a movement in the world called globalization. A term that is meant to define our generation and all of those who will come after us. The 60% of us that possess the mobile device are told it is our only way to tap into the globalized potential of our species. Yet remember – 100% of the world’s inhabitants are endowed with a different device. One which allows us to open doors unseen by eyes all without turning a single knob.

In the digital and globalized world, One must feel like a shadow of the self. One that is contrasted absolutely by the cold blue light of our digital devices. The very same device meant to provide a light in the darkness. Blinded by this light, one is forced to compare failures to other’s successes. One compares flaws to perfection. In no way whatsoever is one meant to be the self, but if only as the dark silhouette which the black mirror reflects.

Our species is provided with snapshots from around the world of one singular emotion. These digital devices do not present the full spectrum of light. They only provide one emotion – and that is the only one we are told to feel. If we feel anything other than that, we are told we are ‘wrong’, ‘sick’, or ‘psychologically unbalanced’. We are defined by the ‘goods’, and none of the ‘bads’. In turn the very floating heads of blinding light tell us no emotional balance exists – while that is precisely what is being showcased.

They claim their devices (given as gifts we are supposed to appreciate like the ‘burning bush’) affect no emotional stature, while behind closed doors they develop them precisely upon emotional codification; emotional responses having nothing to do with ‘the mind’ but everything to do with automatic neurological responses of ‘the brain’.

In order for there to be truth, both sides must be explored, at the very lease humored. Yet only the light, the happy, the perfect are exemplified and represented. In no way whatsoever does it show the imperfections. And those of us that have them, are only silhouettes. Lined up for being ‘wrong’ for feeling things other than what we are told to feel, told to experience.

This immensity of imbalance leads us to a fake image of globalization. If tomorrow I awoke from my coma, I would wonder why the world wears a fake digital facade, a mask of lightness and happy, when all around the darkness expands in reality. Why has the world decided it needs a dependency to tap into her spirit? Why has the human race forgotten that the only device needed to connect is the biological one. It provides us with empathy, it provides us with the true ability to connect with one another.

Yet as we grow more and more connected through digital means, we drift further and further from a balanced society, into a masked perfection of shadows.

Dimmed by the new light age, we have forgotten what it means to be human. All we want is to achieve perfection. Objectivist philosophy has already shown us the absurdity of a vigorous and absolute logic in search of ‘the perfect man’ as Ayn Rand coined the term. Yet why, when her philosophy was widely discredited and criticized, have we decided to continue to search for the paradoxical condition of the ‘perfect human’? Logic is already perfect – it is its fundamental trait. Yet through this realization we can expand upon all of the other unexplored topics and opposing forces in nature such as imperfection, irrationality, love, humanity.

The only thing this search for perfection has accomplished is a deep shadow cast by our perfect selves upon us minuscule human creatures. Our 4th dimensional beings look down upon us and cast a large shadow enveloping us. They weep for our pain, knowing of our mistakes.

Carl Jung explained a topic called ‘shadow work’ where we don’t actually see others, but ourselves darkened. As our digital tools and devices continue to offer ever reaching societal expectations, our higher conscious is ripped further from our knowing conscious, forcing us to form a deepening contrast between light and dark. While the balance can sometimes seem disheartening, at this adolescent age of consciousness, it is only enough to breathe.

It is a personal choice to allow for the darkness to encapsulate. It is a mindful approach to remember that the only allowance for the shadow to be cast, is for something to shed light upon the subject. It is not always a blinding light which causes shadows. In a condition of absolute light, no shadows exist. Just as in a condition of absolute dark, no light exists. Even if in this blinding light age of society, we exist as silhouettes, it means there is some balance ever present, yet it requires a little digging to find.

Globalization might be unstoppable. There is no way to know. The exponential growth would seem to lend to this idea. Yet even in times of blinding light when we feel darkest, we have to remember to cast a shadow. If we never leave our shadow, we continue to soak up light, if we never detach ourselves from our darkness, we can never allow light to blind us into an unbalanced system of humanity. The only reason a shadow exists is because there is a side of us soaking in the sun.