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No Safety in Numbers
By God | January 31, 2007
I am an existentialist God, you know. Well, a kind of existentialist, absurdist god, really.
I believe that everyone is responsible for his/her actions and the consequences thereof. Oh, don’t get Me wrong, there can always be mitigation but, at the end of the day, we are all responsible.
One of the things that makes Me angriest is the human tendency to pass the buck: to squirm, and finger-point and blame. This trait is particularly highly developed in politicians, but most of humanity has a natural flair for it.
The world is in trouble, and we are, collectively, responsible. Humanity is a greedy child. It consumes more than is good for it or its environment, and thus grows and grows. As it grows, its appetite increases, so it just stuffs its fat face all the faster. Want to know what’s wrong with the world? There are too many people, people. Yes, that is what I said: there are just too damned many of you. Over six billion - that’s 6,000,000,000.
Corporations love populations. The more people there are, the more potential exists for new and growing markets. But it is all crap. Consumerism, capitalism and globalisation will be the death of you or your children or your children’s children and, so long as you do nothing about it, you are to blame.
Panicky governments are just now beginning to try to impose reluctant targets with a view to limiting the damage we do, but they will be fighting all the way against corporate and political self-interest. Just as pressure from the American coal mining unions contributed to earlier US government tendency to bury its head in the sand, UK airlines are fighting a war of disinformation and political arm-twisting to protect their corporate interests at the cost of our world and that of your grandchildren.
No, I will not step in. You must sort it out yourselves. My non-existent predecessor began his career as an interventionist god, and look what happened to him. To quote the late Douglas Adams, the old guy “vanished in a puff of logic”, leaving Me to pick up the pieces.
Your homework is to think about what I have said, and to consider what you can do to make a difference.
No shirking, either. When I think you’ve had little while to think, I will be asking questions. You’d better have some answers…
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January 31st, 2007 at 4:49 pm
The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues.
The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.
Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment.
Subject : In a fast society slow emotions become extinct.
Subject : A thinking mind cannot feel.
Subject : Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys the planet.
Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking.
If there are no gaps there is no emotion.
Today people are thinking all the time and are mistaking thought (words/ language) for emotion.
When society switches-over from physical work (agriculture) to mental work (scientific/ industrial/ financial/ fast visuals/ fast words ) the speed of thinking keeps on accelerating and the gaps between thinking go on decreasing.
There comes a time when there are almost no gaps.
People become incapable of experiencing/ tolerating gaps.
Emotion ends.
Man becomes machine.
A society that speeds up mentally experiences every mental slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.
A ( travelling )society that speeds up physically experiences every physical slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.
A society that entertains itself daily experiences every non-entertaining moment as Depression / Anxiety.
FAST VISUALS /WORDS MAKE SLOW EMOTIONS EXTINCT.
SCIENTIFIC /INDUSTRIAL /FINANCIAL THINKING DESTROYS EMOTIONAL CIRCUITS.
A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY CANNOT FEEL PAIN / REMORSE / EMPATHY.
A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY WILL ALWAYS BE CRUEL TO ANIMALS/ TREES/ AIR/ WATER/ LAND AND TO ITSELF.
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