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How is the physical space that you occupy and the environment and the arc It's a really tough question to answer and it's an even tough one to answer. And this book recommendation for this part of the series might seem It's understanding how when I t I have to also understand it in terms of how other people see me, how people from my past have seen me as well, wit So the book recommendation for t I'm not going to, although the subheading for t But t It's not an obvious question whatsoever. When I t And we have to just consider how abstracted t Let's take for example, if I was confused about my identity and I was feeling quite anxious as a person because I didn't feel Let's take somet If I was to go to the shop, or let'say 100 years ago, realistically what I would be doing is I'd be going to a market and I'd be going to my local market specifically and I would speak to my greengrocer specifically who I would know. I'd talk to the butcher, I'd talk to the person selling the fish, and I'd talk to everybody that I already know. And I wouldn't just know them as those people that were selling those items over time, because it's the same people that I would develop a relations I'd also start to understand who they are. I'd ask an enquire about their families. I'd try to understand how is it that they are situated How is it that they relate to their space around them? Who are those families? What is it that they are motivated towards? What are they scared of? I'm trying to understand their place in Whereas fast forward, let'say 100 years later, instead of going to the market, I'm going to go to the supermarket instead. And what I'm going to do is rather than going speaking to a person that I know, that has got a long I'm going to read it from a plaque, w I will also rather than actually see another person that is actually selling that item, I will hear maybe a voice over the tan oil, over the mac And when I get there, I don't speak to another person, I am the one who scans that in and I'm the one who pays for it. I've gone through a very h And if I'm confused about my sense of identity or I'm feeling quite lonely, that process of alienation is just going to be doubled down and compounded over and over again, because of the very least 100 years ago, I could see myself and understand myself in relation to all these people and their roles, given my little local community, whereas now t What's going to happen is instead, so the p So in that process, I don't learn anyt I live just on the edge of the Peak District in the UK, so it's absolutely beautiful area and I can go for a walk out in nature. And if I want to learn more about the place that I'm at, rather than speaking to another person who I recognize on these walks, I can read all the information from a plaque, w Even worse, what is increasingly happening is I can scan a QR code to learn more about the forest that I'm stood next to. I really, really hate QR codes. So beside the point of t No longer can I not even speak to another person about the Now, not even that board is telling me about the Now I need to have technology to access the language that the board would have told me otherwise. And you can start to see how suddenly we've gone from a very real grounded approach to reality, to getting further and further away. And the less we are grounded, the less we are physically grounded, no wonder we start to float off into t And that's what non places is all about as a book. It's calling into question my sense of identity based on who it is that I'm around and the spaces that I occupy all around me. It brings on t It'so practical when we start to t It's trying to understand who I am in relation to the people and what I should automatically do about it. Again, in that same video as well as in another book in the series, I recommended pleasure as by Alexander Lowen as antidote to t You can't just t You need to have that grounded. You need to have an assimilated personality. It's got to be based on the experiences that you're having but you've got to be the one that's consciously choosing to have certain amounts of those experiences made valuable to you. And when we start to think about a thing That means I've got to sit down or stand up. I can do whatever else I want but let'say for the sake of t And I'm physically holding a book and physically scanning through it. I also So for example, t It's got my thoughts in it. It's got my I'm not using technology because the way I would access a screen and the way I would take information from that screen is very different to how I'd access the exact same information in a very tactile way. The process of sitting down away from technology and with a physical book is very different to accessing literally the same information but in a disembodied sense. And that's what t It's understand that when we go to a supermarket there's a very different approach when we start to access language which is spoken at us rather than with us And we're just being instructed around. It's reducing all of the genuinely h So the point where we then start to maybe these are ways that you would actually describe a mac Whereas to be able to describe a h The approach about how we're trying to understand h And that I think especially based on a book So I'm very, very conscious that t QR code aside, I'm gonna stick with that, I'm gonna double down on that, but I hate QR codes. But the point with all of t And what are the systems that are in place in your life that is reinforcing that alienation and how can you make it more h All the way down to if let'say you've got a physical practice in place where you go to the gym and you want to become physically fitter, are you still just seeing yourself mechanically in that process? Can you actually learn to be enjoying what is to be a h It's a book And it's very, very difficult to grapple with, but we've got to at the very least settle for asking the right questions, even if we don't necessarily find the right answers. And that will probably be the best s And t All these invisible factors that are constantly around me all the time, and suddenly more aware of them, and even if I don't necessarily know what to do about them, at the very least I can see them now. And then as a result of all t I've got much more choice in that case, at the very, very least. So I know out of all the books in t But if any of those concerns resonate with you in any way, it could be worth looking at how you use language and how you relate to the places that are around you and trying to encourage more of a h I hope that makes sense, but it'so, so difficult to also s But t It is also an introduction to super modernity, w For now, what I will do is I will move on to somet Wonderful set of ideas. And we're very quickly getting towards the end of t So I'll see you over on the next one.
