I am guessing I am not the only one in the world at the moment that wouldn't mind a little bit of a change in direction than where we are seemingly inevitably headed. The next few months are going to be quite the turning point in history perhaps as whichever way the US election result falls, it will likely create a great deal more tension on top of what has already proven a pretty tense year - will the US break and if it does, what about the rest of the world that seems intent on following its lead into the abyss?
But the abyss is what is potentially required for the change we might have to go through in order to get past the layers of nonsense we have created in this world. While I am far from naive or ignorant as to why, I do find it incredible that as far as we have come as a species, we still manage to fight over the most irrelevant and arbitrary of things. While I do not think it is a coordinated conspiracy, the incentive to keep the drama in play is very much in the court of those who have the power and benefit the most to do so.
At some point, we will have to learn one way or another - live together or mutually assured destruction are probably the only two cards in the deck at the end of the day. If you were a betting person, which one do you think has the higher odds of realization?
At the end of the day, we do not have a great deal of control over much, but we can affect components of our own lives and if everyone does a little, a lot can be done. Which I figure is one of the core strengths of decentralization - where we are incentivized to take responsibility and become better players of the game - better versions of ourselves?
For me at least, I do believe that I am better for having spent time participating here as it has not only introduced me to new concepts, technologies and opportunities - it has also drawn me away from where I was spending far too much of my time earlier on entertainment, social media consumption and all kinds of global attention-seeking irrelevancies. Creating was an outlet in many ways as it not only gave me something better to do, it helped me have something better to feel - the sense that there was a chance that this world still has a chance.
As I have mentioned before, "mother earth" doesn't give a damn about us as there is no being at the control, there is no world personality that we are destroying through our pollution - it exists with us, it exists without us - it is completely indifferent to our presence. What we are destroying is our possibility to live on this earth as unlike nature that is always something, we can only be something in a narrow band of conditions - change the conditions enough - and we can no longer survive and while we were something, we will forevermore in the future be nothing, unless we can find a way to bend the conditions into a band that we can survive.
A change in direction... is it so hard? Why?
How come we as a species can be painfully aware of our own suffering, yet rather than actually attempt to change the course of our future, we spend the majority of our time, effort and resources fighting to remain the same or worse, repeat the past in an endless cycle where the wheel of time is stuck in a groove, playing a track of misery. Are you sure that what you are spending your time on has the value you believe it does? What did you generate today?
Generation is a funny word, it means to produce as well as a rough grouping of those born in a time period. Both speak of our relationship with the past as the source, the present as an active process and the future, to where we will head. Our genes seem to keep repeating the same patterns over and over and while we might think that it is because we are human, perhaps it is because we are unwilling to let go of the past and see if there is another present we could live that will take us to a different future.
We talk about "children being the future" which is true, but that future isn't going to be much different if we encourage them to be just like us - or worse - to take even less responsibility over their lives. Will there always be enough true activists in the world that will keep us diverging from the past and into a better future, or will we destroy all hope by punishing the different and we as a species will stop generating, become stagnant and unmoving. The dead don't move and if we create a world where we are too scared to diverge, we have ensured our own destruction.
We are moving now - the direction is questionable. We walk the path of what we consume, we consume the road of what we produce. Every generation has the opportunity to be better than the last, but each is born from the last and no one wants to be superseded.
Taraz
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