THE ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENT- AN ESSAY — PART 1
By: Nick Stulga
The World and Political Views
Author’s Note:
I am putting out an album called “eNVIRONMENT” to go over the electronic connection that we have in society as a result of addiction and depression/pain and how it affects us.
Coldplay is also putting out an album called “Everyday Life” on November 22nd and in a similar fashion I decided it would be appropriate to publish this essay on being better a society to fill in the blanks. This is essay will also be released November 22nd to commemorate to album. Until then, here’s to a brighter future of hope.
KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES
WE all want the next best thing. Me, personally, well I’m writing this boring meh article on my iPhone 11. I sound braggadocio to say the least. But I didn’t actually want the next best thing. And now I feel like a douchebag.
Why do I feel like that? Why, thanks for asking. (No response, really?) Saying I am keeping up with the Joneses may be a large part of social culture, however, it’s not always a good thing to attain these bragging rights.
Now I could just go on with an explanation from Psychology Today or a referential list of a thousand other psych papers to prove my point, but I won’t. Instead I’ll look into human nature to prove my point.
Material wealth doesn’t define our sanctuary that we assume.
- Nick Stulga
HUMAN NATURE
WE feel inclined to talk about our accomplishments and we have a right to do so. We are humans and we should feel proud sometimes. But sometimes that pride can be overwhelming. Depression and personal risk for injury and self-harm increases with pride from peer pressure. How would I know? Personal experience is the best bet.
I’ve seen what drugs and alcohol can do to a person. (I will use made-up names here) Take Joshua for example, a kid who’s on the soccer team and doing great, who feels like hitting a vape. He doesn’t need to do it. In the long run, it may seem extremely harmful — because it is — but his peers are doing it so why shouldn’t he look cool as well?
This circles back to what I said about “thinking” you need something, like the newest iPhone. I don’t need it just like Joshua doesn’t need his vape, but it helps us both hide behind our insecurities and shames. I may feel lesser than someone in material value without it, while he might feel unpopular without his drugs. The concept can be applied to virtually anyone.
And he’s not alone. The people before him — friends and maybe family members even — may have their craving as well, for one tortured family member that could be a nice, cold glass of Bourbon whiskey, while for another tech geek it may be a new phone or computer to control. Everyone has their craving and most people can satisfy them.
But what about those who can’t?
Accomplishments are the outfit for greed.
- Nick Stulga
THE IMPOVERISHED & NEEDY
WHAT about the isolated folks on the streets you see in any major city? How in the (pardon my French) hell do they get in their everyday lives? Think about it this way. What do you think they think of us? How do those people live off of money? Must be nice. Yeah, no kidding.
They fit the disparity on the way to a social climb and they shouldn’t be forgotten about either. They’re trying as well, just as the rest of us are. They may be struggling, but they have actual NEEDS that AREN’T BEING FULFILLED. When was the last time you saw a man living off of the streets with a guitar and a whole Gucci outfit and food. Rarely ever, I should assume.
They are the outcasts in society and because of this, they should just be forgotten? Just because they can’t afford the finer things in life? Doesn’t that seem wrong and immoral in multiple ways? We are people of God or some Creator, are we not? Then why do we treat everybody less fortunate than us like the fleeing Israelites, cowering in fear of persecution or bigotry/mockery. We shouldn’t, as human beings, treat anyone in such a way. Yet we do.
Do you know how many times I’ve seen videos of homeless people getting walked by as if they were litter in the wind? How many sleeping folks I’ve seen with rotted teeth and no hygiene at all? They are probably so confused, going “Why are they so clean and good-looking? Why am I chosen to be like this?” Some May even find religious reasons as to why. “I’m destined for Heaven or great Fate,” they may say. But are they really or is it just an act, just a perception of the warped, overturned world. It’s provoking to their minds, but at the same time entrapping and corroding. They will never truly get out of this cycle, will they?
How would we even know? I know I’m posing a lot of big questions to ponder, but these questions test our human morality more than even before in a world that is so disconnected from nature and so connected to an electric socket that is most likely rotting their brains. I believe if you can find a way to express yourself like I am as opposed to finding new ways to scam others out of their finances, you will go a long way. Where did the discussions go?
I just don’t see them anymore. Even teachers, TEACHERS, whose job is to discuss the ancient knowledge that’s been imparted upon their souls, seems faint and thin. The poor deserve equality as well. America is the land of opportunity, yet not for the opportune, yet not for those truly seeking opportunity, only for those living believing it’s possible to only fail at every obstacle.
I grew up lucky, with stuff. Lots of it. A lot of people don’t have this stuff, and to brag about stuff doesn’t make you a better or worse off person. Does it make you feel any better to brag than it does to stage a riot in your hometown? It’s you hometown, as it is your right to brag, but how does it feel when it’s said and done.
Let me give you an example. I go to the gym pretty frequently. What if I went in the locker room one day and some douche is in the locker room flexing in the mirror like I always see on social media. Cool, that’s fine. But when he comes over and starts talking about how much he lifts and how much muscle he’s gained, DUDE I DON’T GIVE A SHIT! And why should I? I progress at my own rate, just as he does. Why should I waste my energy getting down about what someone else thinks about their body? It’s the Willpower that starts to come into play. I’m better than this, I can break these chains.
Isn’t this how the homeless wo/man feels? Most definitely. I’m better than those scumbags. And we are, we are scumbags. But maybe we just need to see how scummy we really are in order to progress and change.
The world isn’t a monster until you truly realize how little you have left
- Nick Stulga
WE CAN DO BETTER: CHANGE &
PROGRESS
SNAP out of it, people. We can change our ways. There is a clearer future on the horizon somewhere. In order to get there, however, we need not overlook the abstract. (See pictures below for examples of abstract, useful knowledge)


We are going back to our old ways. Every trace of idea is now left in a digital fingerprint. No longer do we have access to the ideas of the pst, the future is aiming to destroy our relationship with idea and set us back. It’s now fairly simple to set up idea, an idea gets likes, it becomes popular ,— for like a few seconds — if it doesn’t it dies and withers instantaneously. As The Black Eyed Peas once put it: “There is no longer a physical record store.” Digital is the currency of the future and we are showing a strange no-skew relationship with this pattern of demographic.
We are letting digital distraction take over a society full of culturally despaired ideas. Instead, the progress should be taking place in the form of societal change and reform. We have gone through many states of reform as a nation and we shall continue to go through stages of prowess followed by mislaid footprints on our global footprint. To sum up, we will only go forward in progress yet to go backwards. The cycle is repetitive and wishing for a break. Only outspokenness and curt chat will curb this obsession from its former necessity to manifest in society.
Our ideas on politics, climate change, foreign policy, gender, etc. will constantly change into a communal idea of hope for a minority group. By when the majority rises above, good results are oft not given. How could we backtrack in a technological Age of Information? Only through foreign-Internet backwashes. These threads of information can be corrupted and stolen and our ideas plugged and distressed from the public mind. When we let our liberators fall into foreign reign the grasp will be too much to constrain and the bond on idea and concept will break. It is a shriveling raisin of idea that cannot possibly be met with substantial greatness. Once an idea is too widespread, as funnily as that may sound, the idea will putter out like a car engine with a less than half-empty tank of gas. The fumes will recede into the abyss of a globalized network of status and remain hidden and unseen from the real world.
Until our politicians and leaders can realize that this web of though is a fragile subject, how will any progress, even minor, stem from such an ideal? It would be lost to the wind like the wind is lost to the ozone layer. An ethereal jump through a psychedelic fantasy loop that will never be recovered, such put, a save file lost in binary networks, never to be found again. From this, no progress will come. Deleting ideas or allowing them to thrive on a social world such as Twitter just isn’t sufficient enough as it was and has been in past years. The social climate is so rigged against the “opposition” that opposing political parties immediately shoot down any given idea as no less than fallible.
This is where the term “Fake News Media” has originated from and it seems like it has become entrenched in our culture to the point where it exists as an abstract, yet very lifelike concept that is living and breathing. Misinformation misguides us through the storm of life, thunder and lightning a raucous and uncanny sight that some wish they couldn’t bear witness to. With all that’s been happening in the media and on the network, why do teachers simply teach it? Why not do anyway about it? This way, they are just living from paycheck to paycheck in a space null and void of noise. School is no longer a safe house for learning, it is instead now a factory of mindless thought.
We swerve away from ideas that we think will get laughed at, but without room for error, there’s also no room for ingenuity and invention. The focus of society becomes centric to ego and manicism. We think outrageous material and content will become validated by others, so we continue to press our opinions on these matters. Manicism is using disorder to command order. Maniacal villains are often portrayed in media, yet they will never tell you that’s a trait they exhibit, instead leading you astray with the hero-villain narrative. This is a problematic part of societal want versus needs. We don’t WANT a narrative that features realism, we NEED one in this day and age, because realism is so obscure nowadays that I could possibly be an Android and I wouldn’t even know it. We see realism as boring and mundane, but isn’t that why it isn’t shown very often in film and media, or rather, watched. Who wants to see the next auto/biographical movie in theaters? No one? One or two people? Shocking.
The Joker movie was the lifeblood of moviegoers these past few months, but was it necessary for the thriving community existence of a connected community to come together over? Short answer: no. Long answer: well, it sort of depends.
In shorter terms, did the movie help promote cultural ideas that are relevant today? Is the theme relatable? If these questions can be answered with a yes, that means the movie succeeded. If otherwise, well, that’s another story, quite literally. The route that the film takes discombobulates ideas and manipulates our feelings; the qualities of a great film. But realism oft isn’t prevalent in motion pictures or novella filming, especially not superhero-is-tic style cinematography. Yet this film managed to stay true to a false feel of real life.

For how can we possibly know if we are living a dream or not. Can we measure our progress on a scale? Is humanity just a linear function on a graph of indecency? Can we predict progress?
Well, we have tried (unsuccessfully) for years to measure our progress as a race in many fields. For example, in climate change, we believed we were way worse off today back in the 90’s. The results, moreover, are slightly askew. Global warming hasn’t brought us past the brink of no return. We just believe it has. Mass hysteria has been instilled in our minds to make us believe false notions. For how can we distinguish fact from the fictional sufferance and exposure of the media from the hardcore reality brittle and supple beneath our feet? Thus, we cannot do. Thus progress is truly immeasurable to scale.

Progress doesn’t exactly define us as humankind, yet it should. We need to learn from our invention and virility/demure that we are a stronger society than we put forth. These ideas are written down, smitten in vain, forged with a heavy hammer of the great Thor. This shall’t happen with this political mindset put forth. The glory of mankind would not be able to exist. We would fade from democracy and coal the torch into the darkness of the depths of the oceans. What a philosophical point of view.
Truly, we are just data points on a grid. We are observed by location and numbers. Birth and death rates, GDP, life expectancy, where we live, how we live, etc. are all factors in how “good” we have it. What our stature is. Social positioning in society, as a result, hasn’t moved quite even a nudge. We push and chug along throughout the victories of history, yet the rest, laid on the victor, never rise up. We are mortals among Gods. And vice versa.
Why do we take this at face value with open fists? Rebellion has happened all throughout history. Why can’t we be the same? Oh, it’s not civil, violence doesn’t accomplish anything. I never said riot, I said rebellion. Peaceful, quiet, however you feel you can quell your angst. Don’t take it out on yourself, though. That only leads you to a big fat nowhere. We are afraid of change and afraid of being different. Why? Because we care.
We care about others and as a direct result, we care about their perceptions of you. When we look bad in front of others, we also feel bad in front of others. It’s natural and we are bound by a non-physical social contract. It says we should respect others, yet we break that true rule. But it also says embarrassment is bad. Yet, we say yes to that rule for what reason? Satisfaction? Pleasure? Guilt? Anxiety? Couldn’t it be all of these? Usually we push these feelings away and thus these are the feelings that usually culminate in self-doubt and prescription-pill flavored headaches of depression and loss. We start to feel more disconnected from the WiFi that keeps us connected to everyday life.
This is the true start of self-deprecation. When we let opinions run our spirits we get dragged down further into a trench of unholiness. It’s hard to truly live if you live based on the thoughts and preconceptions of other people. If you live your life in total abstain from judgment and ridicule, if you just learn to ignore it, it will ease your tension and get instantly easier to breathe. You may even feel a sense of relief. We can’t rely on others’ opinions to hold us to a certain set of standards
What if someone constantly called you out for the water you drank? Well, I drink bottled water and you drink this crap? That’s absurd and ridiculous to even think about. How can we judge based on looks. Never judge a book by its cover. It may end up being the last thing you ever do. You’ll get ahead of yourself and only then bad things can come from that. You start to paint a negative picture of violent hues about everyone else, but you also start to assume the shape and texture of that portrait of death.
This is another refactor from the path to a future generation of invention. We let other people — who have the same exact goal as us — to rob us of freedoms and paint an uncanny representation of intolerance in our minds. Only then, we feel more and more tempered, yet more allowed for outrage. Riots start this way, inflicting wrath upon the human soul. This leads to controversy and debate that is illegitimate and unnecessary to fight evil. With this, still no progress is made, no advance whatsoever.
Progress can only be made when the common people take up arms and band together for a common cause, to fight and crusade against ignorance and bash the incorrect concepts we have established as a society. Only then can the monster of misinformation be tamed and defeated.
But when we strangle that worldview, we start to see truth.
- Nick Stulga
The establishment warns against feeding the beast. They don’t want you to feel prone to intelligent ideals, because when we start to feel that way we can move, twist, manipulate the system, not necessarily to our advantage, but instead against the currents of mass media and propaganda. This feeds the mind false morals, mindsets, beliefs, whatever makes you believe in a worldview. But when we strangle that worldview, we start to see truth. It takes democracy and turns it on its head (see my article The Darkness of Democracy for more), causing us to feel like WE KNOW SOMETHING that OTHERS DO NOT. And it feels empowering.
This is how we down idiocracy — with a spoon of justice. We can implement our beliefs and change our views and be heard. This is exactly what Greta Thunberg did with climate change. She made a perception up when all that the others were doing was bickering about who has more healthcare and how much money we can spend without feeling like absolute morons. She changes the system. Malala Yousafzai did the same thing in 2012 when she was shot at by terror group Taliban on a bus ride home from school. She spoke out about the horror and became an activist and liberator of the future
Liberation is slow — the future is even slower. But all will come in passing time.
- Nick Stulga
We have liberated the oppressed for centuries, but what about ideas? The future is upon us and we just don’t know it yet. Liberation is slow — the future is slower, but all will come in passing time. Change will happen, it’s on the horizon. With each and every passing day, we are just waiting to reach a climax where we can finally see human evolution from a non-political standpoint, where there is no more yelling over who the first and next President shall be, no more massing shootings or riots, no more false news portrayed as real. This will disappear in a blur, unless we do nothing about it. The future is in a handful of people, but it doesn’t have to be that way.
We can invoke change. Coming together is a first, but more essentially, an enriched must. Without cooperation, a sense of unity, historically, nothing has gotten done. No lapse. No clock to measure us. We will just have been a blip in the radar of life. An everyday occurrence, one not too big or too small, it’ll be as if we never really existed.
In the generation we live in today, change is the firepower to success. We want to pass it on. We are the ammunition to spark the keg of the future.
We need to reserve ancient peace to make modern progress.
- Nick Stulga
BACKTRACKING INTO A DARKER PAST
THINGS haven’t always been this way, though. In fact, there have been times in history where things have been much worse off. As far back as the Black Plague, disease has riddled the world and snuck fear under the eyelids of innocent, sleeping children in medieval society. “A plague on both your houses!” — Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Do you think he pulled that quote out of thin air? Yes, sure he did. The Plague is used as a fear-monger, to scare people with bad, wet dreams of a nightmarish kind. Scare tactics. And they’ve been used much longer than that.
The Black Plague, or the Bubonic Plague, resulted in a death rate of about 1/3rd of the population dead, yet it’s vital to remember the European population at the time was much smaller, at about ~150 million total people. Nowadays we have a much bigger population to take care of, which only accentuates tithings and makes things far worse. We are responsible for our behavior, and thus, that behavior is creating enormous, erroneous impact on the planet as we know it.
The Black Plague may have been the demise of the 12th through 18th centuries, but we have clearly recovered. However, global warming and climate change may be an altogether more pressing issue. How can we stop the monsoon of the world that will consume us all?
Surely charity isn’t enough. We have extrapolated spending for years upon years with no avail. Building a border wall; my only preponderance is the purpose it serves: none. This world is a money machine that gobbles up paper slates like candy in a sweet shop. It’s a “sweetener” that adds flavor to an already unstable campaign, a crucible of mockery. They want Trump gone, the American people, but what is democracy to say that will or won’t happen. Very far and few.
When stripped from the human, Free Will becomes Slavery in a quick fashion.
- Nick Stulga
Yet this is hardly fair a political matter, as campaigning isn’t in the hands of the people, it’s in the poignant minds of the people. Thinking about visuals and slogans is an involuntary act, the only voluntary act being the Free Will to read the words from oft the page. That is a supposed God-given right, which no human can go denied without. When stripped from the human, Free Will becomes Slavery in a quick fashion. Our minds are thrashed and whipped, until our spirit drips from the spoils of punish. We cannot satisfy the need for a joker in society to lighten the mood, so we instead head for a Joker that can inflict crisis out of seemingly nothingness.
The Red Scare was a scare tactic and you should know it. Communism was “scary, frightening” of a belief, riddled with pneumonia, a bad contagion. It spread badly, in a terrible fashion, and people wept about Communism, believing the government would take all their stuff. Was that the case? No. Was the belief of a scare tactic enough to force the belief? Yes.
Disorder is created by an imbalance in beliefs.
- Nick Stulga
Chaos is reining and taking the reigns simultaneously, a homophone in itself. Just as the universe tends towards disorder, humans do as well. For some reason we favor corruption over all other things, as long as it’s profitable. Yet, disorder in not purely physical. It’s not just an offset with currency. Disorder is created by an imbalance in beliefs. We take our natural system of beliefs and turn in on its head, therefore creating a discrepancy in an ever-morphing world of attitude and discrete, subtle flicks of wisdom, not intended for us, but for the “superior.” And, that, my friends who are reading, that is true culture.
True culture is created from a disorder in the universe that we can’t manipulate, but we can create more of.
- Nick Stulga
CULTURE: TAKING A FIELD DAY
I feel like I’ve aged 10,000 years in just a few short months. We are rapidly changing and evolving, quickly to the point of the speed of light. The pace is astonishing and quite impressive given the rapidly devolving political atmosphere of yesterday. These politicians should be aging, and they are, but backwards. We have things all wrong. We think we know the ins and outs of the world and the greenish, less green Planet.
Our biggest factor for this is the rapidly heating environment around us. We provide ourselves a way to burn more CO2 than ever before in human history, burning a hole in the slowly-evaporating ozone layer. Culture is having a field day. Why? It is done at the expense of the environment and we don’t think a second thought about it. We are tearing a hole is the fabric of interwoven culture to no avail, yet again. The past has always failed us, but at this rate the future may be next to fail us.
The human species, as a result, has become mocked as a rocking toddler in it’s cradle. It sways and bends through the sheets of history, but doesn’t learn very much on the way. Chews and spits out the food of reality. We are all Thanos, all using our Infinity gloves, but for no reason. Creating a reality where everything is perfect, now those are characteristics of a utopian society. And it gets scarier than that. We aren’t fixing the utopian world we strive to create, we’re helping it along. The darkness starts to feed these notions and motives and keeps us awake, rocking in our cradles.
Humanity believes that it is better than humanity.
- Nick Stulga
UTOPIA: OUR BIGGEST MISTAKE
THIS idea of a dream of a fairy-dream world is quite eerie. No violence, all peace, what has it come to? This is a revolution of humanity, a regression of the past. Puritanical society was the first to use these methods to trick people onto moving and taking up a brand new belief system.
They didn’t want to be persecuted, but in leaving they are hypocrites. They are persecutors of themselves, striving for a village, a society with only one set of beliefs. They are simply reverting back to a former state. Why do they allow this to happen? It’s simple.
We are afraid. Afraid of who we have become. Afraid of imperfection. The best is less than acceptable. The worst is not possible. It is, but we’ve trained ourselves to think that we can do no wrong. We are Androids, a sub-breed of robot that takes orders as long as they are profitable to society. It’s the norm and nothing less than mundane. We preach these concepts, get a job, go to college, get as many degrees as possible, but we don’t explain why they are necessary. To the economy, they are nearly essential. They make money as they always have. But these aren’t new prenups between society and the people who breathe within the space. It’s symbiotic and very vulgar, two consecutive whims. But this elegance is overpowered by “perfect, lavish people of God.” This is termed the “rich and upper-class, the 1%” of Americans. And here’s their problem and weight they put in society.
The best is less than acceptable. We need stuff, good looks, money, money, good looks, etc. to feel empowered. Not enough stuff, not enough status. Not enough status, not enough reputation. And no reputation is equivalent to no friends. Yikes. This is a huge misconception and an idle guide for failures. Here’s to another year of the best looking even better and the models (mainly male) looking like Greek Gods and Goddesses. Woohoo, a toast to “fake greatness.”
The best is less than acceptable nowadays.
- Nick Stulga
But we allow it to happen. We keep allowing and okaying things and these things will only bite us in the back. No matter how hard we think we can change, we can’t because we don’t take action. And this leads to a world of problems that get worse and worse over a statistical period. Measured in numbers. Teachers strikes, climate change, gun violence, ethics, criminal law, immigration, foreign policy, domestic abuse, the list goes on and on.
These are all parts of this world that need to be solved in order to tend towards a utopian society of perfection, so let’s break down each of them and why utopian equilibrium is near impossible and just how far we can push the limits of space and time to have achieved our max peak of mankind. Here we begin with an issue that is more and more prominent in society, school and all aspects of how it teaches us non-learning, or how to make it appear as you are learning when you’re really just reading and typing on a screen of delusion.
Electronics dominate society in a way that the mind is a digital mind encompassed in digital thought “constructs.”
- Nick Stulga
