Scroll and sacrifice
The altar glows in your hand
And burns what you feel.
What if the news wasn’t designed to inform, but to numb?
What if the constant feed of fear, outrage, and despair is a ritual of mass desensitization; meant to cremate our capacity to care?
Let’s explore the hidden symbolism behind modern media and how we can reclaim our attention, our empathy, and our sovereignty
The Ritual You Didn’t Know You Were In
At Bohemian Grove, an elite men’s club tucked away in the redwoods, a strange ceremony is performed each summer: the Cremation of Care.
Powerful men: presidents, bankers, tech moguls, gather before a 40-foot stone owl and burn an effigy called “Dull Care,” symbolically casting away their conscience.
It’s dark. It’s theatrical.
And you’re in a version of it, every day.
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The News Feed as a Ritual Sacrifice
They don’t call it a feed for nothing.
Every scroll, every shocking headline, every emotional gut-punch is part of a ritualized system of desensitization.
Not to awaken you, but to numb you.
Scroll and sacrifice
The altar glows in your hand
And burns what you feel
This isn’t news.
It’s emotional engineering.
We’re being trained to feel just enough to stay upset, but not enough to take action.
Just aware enough to stay agitated, but not awake enough to break the pattern.
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GMO Media: Feedlot for the Mind
Like factory-farmed cattle, we are fed a GMO information diet:
• Engineered for control, not care.
• Sprayed with fear, sweetened with distraction, stripped of nutrients like truth and depth.
• Delivered 24/7 to keep us docile, divided, and dependent.
And just like feedlot animals:
• We become sick in spirit.
• Numb to our own instincts.
• Disconnected from each other and from meaning.
This is not journalism.
It’s ritual sacrifice of empathy, scaled for the masses.
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The Result? A Society That Forgets How to Care
When care is burned, what remains?
• Cynicism.
• Disconnection.
• Despair posing as sophistication.
We mistake numbness for maturity.
Outrage becomes entertainment.
And the most sacred part of us – our ability to feel deeply and act with heart – gets cremated in the glow of the screen.
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But We Can Stop Feeding the Fire
We can refuse.
We can:
• Unplug from the feed.
• Reclaim our attention as sacred.
• Choose breath over broadcast, ritual over reaction.
Instead of doomscrolling, we can:
• Cook a real meal.
• Sit with grief.
• Make art.
• Listen with our whole being.
• Touch the earth.
• Look someone in the eye.
These are not trivial acts.
They are soul nourishment.
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This Is the Work I Do
My offerings are not just services. They’re counter-rituals:
• Cannabis-infused bodywork
• Thai-style yoga bodywork
• Clarity Breathwork ceremonies
• Deep somatic coaching
• Potluck conversations that bring real humans face-to-face
Each one is a chance to unburn the heart; to remember how to care, and feel, and be alive again.
Because you don’t have to sacrifice empathy to survive this world.
In fact, empathy is how we reclaim it.