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The struggle for image and power left me in the dark

 

Last week my computer began once more to have problems. This time, every time I turned my computer on, it stopped working. I used the “safe mode,” and I discovered the computer will freeze when trying to process a certain system file related to the screen and the monitor.

Using a different computer, I searched for information about the problematic file and for solutions.

I soon discovered all the solutions suggested at different sites, from installing a new graphics card to change the resolution of the monitor to provide more memory for video, I have already applied. Clearly, there was some other reason for my computer to freeze.

I went back online and, at one of the computer forums, I read a posting where somebody warned that, when a computer freezes after turning it on, the problem is caused not by the last system file you can see on your screen but by the next file, the one you can’t see.

In the case of my computer, that other file is the system in charge of providing energy and power to all the components of the computer. The problem was the distribution of power.

It seems that, due perhaps to an interruption in the electricity supply or perhaps to a sudden unplugging of the computer, the system file in charge of power supply got corrupted and entered a cycle without end, freezing the computer. As a result, in spite of the fact that everything else in my computer was (and is) in good working order, nothing worked at all.

I downloaded a new version of the system file and after installing the computer began to work normally.

By then, the problem with my computer was no longer a technical problem but a metaphor for what actually happens in real life, where the conflict for image and power (many times invisible) affects all of us and in many cases paralyzes us and impede us for progressing into the future.

When opinion polls reflect more the opinion of the pollsters than the opinion of the people, when there is no difference between news and propaganda, when outside image is the most important aspect of a person, when the struggle for power is so evident that causes instability, then, both in real life and in my computer, we are left in the dark and with options.

There is, however, something worst, and it is ignoring the real root of the problem. Because of that, we will look for solutions to problems are not such, and we will invest time, money, resources, energy, hope, and expectations in situations were not a problem and should not receive such amounts of time or money.

At the same time, we are not even addressing the true problem. We don’t know where the struggle for power really lies, and we ignore what kind of corruption affects the functioning of our whole society, even when the absolute majority of members of that society have not impediments for working properly.

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