Sunday, June 22, 2008

An interesting discussion today.

I shared an interesting discussion today. One of my favorite people that I work with shared her thoughts today. I find her to be very advanced in comprehension of life.
She said to me that it is almost like people today are dead. I agreed. We discussed that the people of today, especially the youth, seem to be self-focused, lack creativity, and require constant stimulus. We agreed the children of the twenty first century do not have proper focus and concentration. The children of the twenty first century are not taught history, math, and language skills required for a proper functioning social order.
Without communicating and functioning order chaos will result. Chaos will result quickly when the stimuli, comfort, and lifestyle are taken away. We do no longer know how to deal socially with other humanity.
This has happened quickly over the last century. Industrialization did play its part, but in these last twenty years humanity has not only isolated itself in suburban city centers, the community has disappeared. Jobs are no longer local. Jobs are centralized in cities. We traverse from a suburb cubicle called house into a metal cubicle called car. We leave the cubicle car to a cubicle called office. The driving and work cycle is generally ten to eleven hours of a 24-hour day. We should use eight hours of sleep per day. This leaves us primarily four to five hours per day. We spend this time in our house cubicle with family. Or do we spend time with our family. A man is expected to fix, repair, or landscape. The woman is expected to cook, clean, and care for the offspring. While the adults may be accomplishing their tasks, the offspring are being entertained with techno products.
In the evening the children may isolate their minds with video games while their parents isolate their minds with TV and or cellular conversations. Every room has a television. Families now have two and maybe up to four computers. Every family member has a cellular phone keeping in contact with unseen acquaintances through electronic conversation and texting. Texting shortcuts remove even more the understandable languages of communication. Within our family units that are already lost in the isolation from community we are isolating the individual from the family.
Truly we are the walking dead. Without understanding our environment, developing our community, and respecting our family, we are the walking dead. Humanity cannot survive without identity. Identity dies without communication, family, and community.
My friend noted that we are so isolated from each other we have lost compassion and respect. I could not agree more.
We sadly lack in understanding what respect is. Respect has nothing to do with the current fashion trend, new techno gadget, video expertise, or simply put, ‘who has the most toys’. Respect is complicated. Respect is understanding your environment, interacting with community, and communicating with family to understand your identity.
Separating from community and family creates confusion in identity creating stress and chaos.
Our current lifestyles are extremely destructive. We are rapidly losing are ability to create, restore, and maintain identity. We are being marketed our perceptions instead of developing our individual perception by experience, communication, and family heritage. When our perceptions are controlled by marketed perceptions and controlled stimuli we as a society lose creativity. When a society loses creativity the stagnation begins. Stagnation is the first step in decomposition. On a global scale humanity is decaying.
All of this means that when a natural and or a financial disaster occurs the people will not be able to survive. There will be violent chaos. Destruction of each other will be Apocalyptic.
Hear my words!
Those attuned to nature and the environment will survive. Learn from these errors. Family, Community, and Education including history of the family will help develop a better world.
Do not create a God in man’s image. Do not create a religion to control. Follow the path of the true ancients. Blend with and understand nature. Appreciate and value all life from the tiny grain of sand to the whale shark. Understand the life cycle and see the beauty of the universe including the one planet we share with all life.
We can make a choice to embrace absolute destruction of all mankind or build a new and better world.

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