Shree: The “genie”

 Shree: The “genie”

Introversion is a process seen in everyone or that of self absorption. This is seen in built environment, public spaces, use of spaces, activities, responses, relationships and imagination. There are two dimensions of introversion behaviour:

The first is self absorption and continuous engagement with internal issues of control – leading to sometimes anxiety and stress. The internal world, it seems, is assumed to have no relationship with the intensity, presence, rate of change and encounter with outside reality.

This manifests as inability to cope with changes in environment and shunning any external signals – seen as distractions. The result is dead environments, general apathy to engage collectively and downright aloofness towards doing anything for any external agent. That causes surveillance and systems to assume prime importance over outside spaces and to assist in uninterrupted engagement of the individual in the inner world of signals. So the emails, and tables, whatsapps and phones, and countless apps to keep a tab on things. Does that ‘fix’ anything?! The question is also true to any scale of existence – be that an individual or a family unit or a neighbourhood or a city or a nation.

By adopting this current position, we create new set of problems, for which, solutions are required to be found or discovered.

There is a critique for following one’s basal desires since this is one of the outputs that we have landed as humanity! Even if all desires are fulfilled by the “genie” of technology, will that generate a satisfied life? The “genie” is the expectation itself that we hold. If there remains no expectations, there is no need for a “genie”.

Hari Om.