The Third World War- Technology Versus Nature?
Posted: Saturday, October 16, 2010
by Terrence Aubrey
Terrence
We live in a technology led and inspired world and have done so for longer than perhaps we realise. What has been the overriding driving force that has driven us the human race to where we are today? A dream, a fantasy of some kind of economic nirvana, a dream that has led us to where we are right now and where are we?
We are told that the world is in economic crisis and that with the right tampering, adjusting of fiscal policy and new super financial stimulus we can fix it. Maybe yes maybe no, but something is very, very clear, we have been mislead. We have followed a course of actions that actually have not taken us to the promised land, but instead to the broken lands. We are collectively in reality bankrupt.
Do we even understand how much our digitally enhanced lives have cost us and how much we have lost along the way? We may, or may not believe that we have seriously upset the balance of nature of life on earth and that the unpredictability of weather worldwide is a passing phase and that the poisons and contaminates that we spew forth globally will magically evaporate and anyway are a price worth paying for that latest model fridge/freezer, car, or whatever, but what if we are wrong, what if we have made a terrible mistake?
What if there could be a better way to live, what if just maybe we have lost more than we have gained in our pursuit of technologically enhanced happiness. You know the story, just one more promotion, just one more big deal, once I have bought that really desirable property I will have arrived, I will have made it and yet we think we are so much superior to that donkey trying to reach that carrot that remains tantalisingly unreachable?
What actually is our individual potential, how great is it and what can achieve within our lifetime? Could it be that we each actually have the potential to really understand just how much joy is available to us, that we can actually feel the river of life that permeates all of creation. Have there not been countless teachers/masters/saints that have tried to show us the way?
If nature is a river of energy and harmony, then we the human race have allowed ourselves to become as a dam. We cannot feel that river, cannot feel that harmony and through our ignorance and feelings of self importance have lost our connection. Our connection to the absolute beauty that we call creation, we simply no longer value the opportunity that we have been given.
Millions of people worldwide are turning their backs on the technocrats, are trying to find a better way to live, a more harmonious way to be, no they are not trying establish a new world order, or a new country, they are in fact turning there backs to that form of being and what can they hope to find? Maybe a purpose for being alive that makes some sense, maybe the ability to actually utilise all of their senses to there full capacity and maybe a feeling of contentment and belonging and truly appreciating the glory of their short time here on mother earth.
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More commentsCapitalism hasn't necessarily won. The dominant economic power in the world today is a communist country, China. Capitalism is going the way of communism in that it has abandoned the principles of a strong middle class, which drove economic growth, for the establishment of an economic elite (90% of the wealth controlled by 7 to 10% of the populace). The difference now between our capitalism and communism is that they are reinvesting in their future economic growth, and our greedy capitalists are pocketing theirs for their consumption. As far as technological advances, it's here, you can't simply wish it away, you accept it, you learn how to manage it, and it can become your friend. It doesn't have to be our enemy, but as is with most things in life we put an ugly mask on it and call it evil. It is not evil, but the ways in which we use it may be. Nice article.You make many valid points David. Fundamentally and from the point of view of Joe Doe the greatest differences between the two systems were those that the leaders told us were so great as to be fundamentally incompatible. Joe Doe, or Joeski Donesk had very little say in the matter and certainly niether system considered that caring for the very world we live upon was that important.
No of course we cannot uninvent, but we can walk away from it. I agree that to label an object as evil is at best a reflection of limited intelligence, but how it is used and what it is used for, now that is another matter, as is the effort put into its creation. The issue of China is to me in many ways a sad reflection of where we collectively are right now. Yes they can mass produce just about anything very cheaply. My whole point is "Do we really, really need it"?
What I am trying to suggest with this article is perhaps there is a better way to live and maybe now could be the time to consider what we collectively and individually want, really want within our lives. Have we not consumed so much in the west in thinking that it would help us build a better life for ourselves and our loved ones, lets be honest with ourselves, did it work? Even more sad is that in the process of aquiring all of that stuff for our nearest and dearest we have caused serious harm to the planet. What a legacy our generation will leave behind us......A broken economic model and a broken planet, just great no?
We in the west have been mislead just as were the peoples of the soviet union I do not see so much difference, I see two failed systems, so can we do better, that is my point and I believe the answer to be yes most surely, but it is going to take a big shift in our priorities, our values and our awareness.
Great article, and an interesting, thought provoking topic. ThanksRichI appreciate your comment Richard, thank you
Terrence Aubrey, I do understand your point of view. Technology is necessary to make our physical life comfortable, but it shold be allowed parameters in nature. Wherever human civilization has tried to confront nature, he has lost that is what the history of human civilization speaks.Good comment Gaurav and I wish I could agree with, but sadly I see a very wounded mother nature.
Very interesting article Terrance. Your article did a great job of pointing out no matter how far we come the one thing we really want is happiness, and if we missed it our second goal is to seek happiness.
What we seem to have lost along the way, we must re-create- into a new and different dream- Thoughtful article- Thanks Terrence- Always- EllaYes Ella lost along the way and perhaps from the times we discovered how to make fire, for reasons unclear to me we have stormed ahead on the phsyical, material plane, but have left our levels of awareness someplace back in the stone age, but it can change, it fact it must change and is changing.
It seems that technology, if we let it, takes us further and further away from each other and an organic appreciation of life. People walked away from the rat race, now they're walking away from the technoc-rat race. I think we'll always long for the kind of quality that touches our hearts.Hi Jennifer, yes we love love and maybe we long to be what we truly are. We just need to find our way back home.
No you are right, really the problem is us the users. What have we sacrificed, or lost at the altar of technology, or materialism? Have we lost our connection with that river of life that sustains all? Have we lost the nobility and majesty of being human? Do we have any right now to the title "The crown of creation"?
Do you ever glimpse Fran, feelings of intuition, a sixth sense, a sense of knowing something just is not right, or conversely is just perfect?
No my point is that we collectively have allowed that clarity, that elan vital within us to wither and dry up to the altar of technology and materialism and it is that rather than inanimate technology that has taken us further and further away from both the understanding and the appreciation of creation in all its beauty and splendor.
If we saw someone sitting on a branch high up in a tree sawing through the very branch upon which he sat we would assume him suicidal, or retarded no? Is that not our reality right now? Are we each of us not contributing through our very lifestyle to the cutting of that branch? We have each of us inherited for a short time a beautiful world and the chance to experience the true beauty and potential that being alive has, but because we have allowed ourselves to be drawn so far out from ourselves we have lost our way, lost our connection to the whole that flows through us and lost the awesome magnificence of being human.
No Fran you are completely right it is us rather than technology that is at fault.
Wow. Expansive. Thought provoking. Not sure what it all means in actuality, but your article intrigues and captures the mind.
Glad you found it of value. I will expound on the core essence of this article very soon here on Search Warp
Some good thoughts Terrence. We need to take a look and figure out why we are here and what to do about that!
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