Our environment and society strives to keep the individual focused on nearby pieces on the board - the debt crisis, the presidents speech, the start of football season, political debates, joblessness, the global financial crisis, wars in Afghanistan, the arab spring, a new government for Libya.
This is done, of course, to keep the individual's perspective focused on the nearby pieces on life's chess board. Just as the horse's on Main Street in Disneyland have blinders to prevent them
from becoming distracted from their intended purpose of pulling a horse powered carriage.
The horse is spared the oversight, that as he pulls the carriage, he is one trip closer to his or her final destination at the glue factory. Our consciousness is often focused on immediate pressures of survival in our society, which is essentially pleasing the boss, so that our supply of money is not cut off.
Like Disney's horses, we concentrate on the immediate influences; job, home, family, friends, pleasure, and putting off the larger questions of why we are here, how did it all start? how will it end ?
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