{"id":2406,"date":"2010-05-16T07:48:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T14:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2010-05-16T07:48:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T14:48:38","slug":"a-21st-century-industry-meditation-for-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/05\/16\/a-21st-century-industry-meditation-for-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"A 21st century industry: meditation for mental health."},"content":{"rendered":"

Drive through Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, walk around Soho and Chelsea, and you’ll see dozens of empty stores; commercial spaces for lease. <\/p>\n

In Los Angeles, though, there has been a countervailing trend in retail: four years ago there were less than a few marijuana stores. Now there are at least one thousand. Clearly, consumers want to get out of their heads. <\/p>\n

So why not a boom in meditation? Because it’s hard work. And, yet, we work out mental problems all the time through video games<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Games that shift the walls of our inner lives, games that can be laid over existing activities, games that create a bond between people. They are meditations. They are commercially viable alternatives to selling things that do not last, at prices that cannot hold for the purpose of filling a void that never goes away.<\/p>\n

It is possible to imagine a thriving commercial sector based on delivering mental health. Through games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drive through Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, walk around Soho and Chelsea, and you’ll see dozens of empty stores; commercial spaces for lease. In Los Angeles, though, there has been a countervailing trend in retail: four years ago there were less than a few marijuana stores. Now there are at least one thousand. Clearly, consumers…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,9,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}