There is no doubt in my mind that progress (and I mean "real" progress) should not always be measured in linear terms.
We humans measure our development on a linear scale, usually choosing a display that shows a stark positive or negative achievement depending on the axe we are grinding.
A circular measure is perhaps far more appropriate.
When I look at the heavens above us, I cannot believe that we are the only civilization to have existed in the cosmos.
We may be the only one at this time, but surely there were others.
Somewhere out there it's all been done before.
They ran the race & ended up right back where they started, dust in the wind.
Based on the track record to date, there is no creature on this planet less worthy of survival than the human.
We murder, loot & pillage every form of life and resource in the name of progress, evolution and development.
We then try to appease what is left of our conscience by lavishing ourselves with the spoils of our victories.
A typical example of this is in the brainwashing we give ourselves through television.
The sensationally popular science fiction series "Star Trek" laid before us a vision of the magnificent future we are building for the generations to come.
Money & it's evils will be banished and humans will together work for the common good of all.
We will travel the heavens, dispensing goodness to those who deserve it & what we define as justice to those who don't.
In truth, it's all a con game and the media are the largest perpetrators of that con game.
"Feel good about ourselves, we are on the right path".
We even build our world around this dream, this vision that it's all good.
Look at our cell phone design.
Almost a carbon copy of Star Trek's communicators.
We have spent millions trying to build a "teleporter" device to move objects from here to there.
The scientists have allegedly move a single molecule.
Our greatest human endeavour is to have put a man on the moon, and that event is questionable.
The reality is that we are going in the exact opposite direction.
The planet will be mined and exhausted of every element we can conceive a way to use.
And when it's done, so are we.
Having travelled a full circle, we'll be right back where we started.
In maintaining our present course we are charting our own demise.
Our consumption of rapidly diminishing raw materials is growing daily.
Each one of us has the ability to make a difference to the outcome and yet we continue down the path of doom laid out for us by our corporate visionaries.
Modern society looks to government to do it all for them.
"The government should do something about that" we say.
We have devolved our personal responsibility to government.
We hand our children to government approved daycare & schools, whilst we, as "responsible parents" earn money to buy bigger houses, new cars, R.V's, boats and cottages at the lake.
Consume, consume, consume.
Again, it's all a con game.
Each and every one of us has the in-born knowledge of what is right & what is wrong.
We have a choice, use it or ignore it.
The vast majority choose the later.
Safety in numbers.
Yet the human spirit keeps nagging away.
Something is wrong and we know it.
Each of us has the responsibility for our planets survival and a duty to conceive ways to make a difference.
To know where we are going, we have to know where we are from.
Looking back will teach us a greater truth about where we made a wrong turn.
Allowing the visionaries to lead us to a future where science will fix the consequences of those wrong turns is a fallacy.
We humans measure our development on a linear scale, usually choosing a display that shows a stark positive or negative achievement depending on the axe we are grinding.
A circular measure is perhaps far more appropriate.
When I look at the heavens above us, I cannot believe that we are the only civilization to have existed in the cosmos.
We may be the only one at this time, but surely there were others.
Somewhere out there it's all been done before.
They ran the race & ended up right back where they started, dust in the wind.
Based on the track record to date, there is no creature on this planet less worthy of survival than the human.
We murder, loot & pillage every form of life and resource in the name of progress, evolution and development.
We then try to appease what is left of our conscience by lavishing ourselves with the spoils of our victories.
A typical example of this is in the brainwashing we give ourselves through television.
The sensationally popular science fiction series "Star Trek" laid before us a vision of the magnificent future we are building for the generations to come.
Money & it's evils will be banished and humans will together work for the common good of all.
We will travel the heavens, dispensing goodness to those who deserve it & what we define as justice to those who don't.
In truth, it's all a con game and the media are the largest perpetrators of that con game.
"Feel good about ourselves, we are on the right path".
We even build our world around this dream, this vision that it's all good.
Look at our cell phone design.
Almost a carbon copy of Star Trek's communicators.
We have spent millions trying to build a "teleporter" device to move objects from here to there.
The scientists have allegedly move a single molecule.
Our greatest human endeavour is to have put a man on the moon, and that event is questionable.
The reality is that we are going in the exact opposite direction.
The planet will be mined and exhausted of every element we can conceive a way to use.
And when it's done, so are we.
Having travelled a full circle, we'll be right back where we started.
In maintaining our present course we are charting our own demise.
Our consumption of rapidly diminishing raw materials is growing daily.
Each one of us has the ability to make a difference to the outcome and yet we continue down the path of doom laid out for us by our corporate visionaries.
Modern society looks to government to do it all for them.
"The government should do something about that" we say.
We have devolved our personal responsibility to government.
We hand our children to government approved daycare & schools, whilst we, as "responsible parents" earn money to buy bigger houses, new cars, R.V's, boats and cottages at the lake.
Consume, consume, consume.
Again, it's all a con game.
Each and every one of us has the in-born knowledge of what is right & what is wrong.
We have a choice, use it or ignore it.
The vast majority choose the later.
Safety in numbers.
Yet the human spirit keeps nagging away.
Something is wrong and we know it.
Each of us has the responsibility for our planets survival and a duty to conceive ways to make a difference.
To know where we are going, we have to know where we are from.
Looking back will teach us a greater truth about where we made a wrong turn.
Allowing the visionaries to lead us to a future where science will fix the consequences of those wrong turns is a fallacy.
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