Persephone
Chrono Cadet
\"Childhood\'s End\" : NOT an Option For Humanity
From the time of the idealic Greeks, segments of humanity have sought out a society of perfection, an all encompasing and pervasive sentiment to co-exist, using pure logic, and steely vision for the greater good.
I have to speak up and say that this is a noble yet flawed approach to the answers we seek. It tis one element, one crucial element, but we must acknowledge that we are more than machines computing our decisions in our lives that lead us to the inevitable NOW.
No, we have the ability to flow, and absorb the inexplicable. To love and nurture and care, and yet we are animals with instincts to protect and survive. No, we are not computaional, binary systems of processing and function. We are artists and creators.
The loss of free will to makind is likened to slavery. It makes no difference if it is what will "save us". Or what others may say will save us? No, mankind has the ability to solve very complex problems in very unconventional manners.
So, let's hear no more talk about "One Mind" consciousnous. We can do it without forgetting who we are individually, and we will actually be better off for it, if not the entire galactic/universal community.
Sure, we need to learn/teach more personal responsibilty throughout the world community. We also need to enable those on our pretty blue globe who are without, without choices, without food and shelter and medicine and education and liberty and information and empowerment. So that it is a level playing field, and all inhabitants of our ecosystem have a fair chance for more than survival. Not to mention a fair chance of survival for our fair planet.
But to make my point again, there are other options to social attuning and growth than broad, single-consciousness for humanity. We are creative social engineers, by default. Look at the diversity, and the commonality we have developed so far?
I await the time of true enlightenment. For surely it will come, if not in this time line, then another.
Anybody have any time-surfing suggestions?
(PS: My title refers to one of my old faves, Arthur C. Clark's book "Childhood's End" in which a new generation of mutants becomes catatonic and totally absorbed into the stream of consciousnous of the world of their minds, sitting yoga-esque on the seashore, etal.)
Persephone
From the time of the idealic Greeks, segments of humanity have sought out a society of perfection, an all encompasing and pervasive sentiment to co-exist, using pure logic, and steely vision for the greater good.
I have to speak up and say that this is a noble yet flawed approach to the answers we seek. It tis one element, one crucial element, but we must acknowledge that we are more than machines computing our decisions in our lives that lead us to the inevitable NOW.
No, we have the ability to flow, and absorb the inexplicable. To love and nurture and care, and yet we are animals with instincts to protect and survive. No, we are not computaional, binary systems of processing and function. We are artists and creators.
The loss of free will to makind is likened to slavery. It makes no difference if it is what will "save us". Or what others may say will save us? No, mankind has the ability to solve very complex problems in very unconventional manners.
So, let's hear no more talk about "One Mind" consciousnous. We can do it without forgetting who we are individually, and we will actually be better off for it, if not the entire galactic/universal community.
Sure, we need to learn/teach more personal responsibilty throughout the world community. We also need to enable those on our pretty blue globe who are without, without choices, without food and shelter and medicine and education and liberty and information and empowerment. So that it is a level playing field, and all inhabitants of our ecosystem have a fair chance for more than survival. Not to mention a fair chance of survival for our fair planet.
But to make my point again, there are other options to social attuning and growth than broad, single-consciousness for humanity. We are creative social engineers, by default. Look at the diversity, and the commonality we have developed so far?
I await the time of true enlightenment. For surely it will come, if not in this time line, then another.
Anybody have any time-surfing suggestions?
(PS: My title refers to one of my old faves, Arthur C. Clark's book "Childhood's End" in which a new generation of mutants becomes catatonic and totally absorbed into the stream of consciousnous of the world of their minds, sitting yoga-esque on the seashore, etal.)
Persephone