The underpinnings of human suffering from singularly-focused, hyper-alpha elites that has affected us through millenniums
For those who might say life is simple, it is unfathomably complex and inter-connected beyond most comprehension — environmentally, socially, and psychologically.
Life is only conceivably simple, enriching, and or difficult because of love and compassion or lack of it.
It was millenniums ago when certain men of greed turned it into an inanimate, secular pursuit that hasn’t stopped since.
Revolutions of industries propped up each generation, expanded personal freedoms, increased our self-valuations, and began the great race that has been speeding up ever since.
Each industry and technology revolution contributes to the division we have today. Sadly, the drivers behind the nationalist's ideology that helps marginalize the classes count on this division.
While we think we’re getting smarter and better or entitled, we’re doing exactly our part to keep the machine going.
As we are being sold visions of grandeur and comfort and security, we are just getting needier and of more spiritless pursuits. The survival threshold is gone for many of the industrious and the educated, while hopelessness increases for those at or near poverty.
All are growing ingredients to deeper catastrophes and clashes if the world continues on a purely economic basis without deep institutional recognition and wholesale inclusion of the entire human condition.
It was all born from men of intellect, greed, superiority complexes, yet still, mostly simple merciless minds. It’s all spurned a division of class and social order that has shaped and contorted into a top-heavy world.
Our plight is guised in the will of progress and human ingenuity. Men of selfish politics corral it and pacify us and support our truths with sly wordsmithing, flippant and shrewd oratory, and crafty media. We are separated, impressionable, and pacified just enough to think it’s our own ideas and beliefs to fight for.
People without enough sense of humanity will fall in line and follow.
Those who struggle to survive and exist in the defined walls they did not build may understand their circumstances but are mostly powerless, but quite possibly still happy.
The so-called nuclear family was supposed to be the rearing of respect and morals
Unfortunately, that assumes the parental core is self-aware and emotionally intelligent to a good degree. In reality, there are family variations of single-parents, grand-parents, step-parents, extended families, and even childless families.
The family end of the bargain is falling short because of short-sighted systematic and economic rails without institutional foresight.
For myself, born in the mid-1960s and a perpetual observant wonderer, I intermingle with many generations and demographics through family, global co-workers, and travels. I’m at the oh-so lucky edge of the baby boomers.
My parents and wife’s parents, to this day, are or were simply not as materialistic vs. later generations, as many I’ve met from their era. From 40–50-year-old vehicles to the homes they’ve resided in for 50 years, it’s never been a chase to win a race or be in a race.
Our parents were of the Greatest Generation (born between 1910–1924). They faced true, unabated dilemmas unlike anything since. They were much more exposed to the full-effect and sacrifices of war and financial depression. This generation had no coddling and no real forewarning, probably because society was not yet as mature, all-worldly, and ready-knowledgeable like we are today.
This Greatest Generation probably didn’t know any better than to “figure it out on their own,” because there was far less “noise” to affect and influence their conscience and simpler gut-feelings.
Before the pervasiveness of personal technology, we just weren’t smart enough to realize and feel all that we know in the overload of today. We didn’t know what we wanted until nearly unlimited choices made us feel more special than we actually were.
Though powerful technology has been an incredible boon and a great equalizer, it has simultaneously been an enabler of division and isolation.
Regardless, the “human god particles” still need to always be in a specific order regardless of progress:
Integrity — Intelligence — Energy (something innocuous I picked up from a Warren Buffett quote).
Changing the order and degree can be the difference between good and evil.
As a whole, how is a better collective consciousness achievable?
For starters, possibly…from the bottom-up: more strong, supportive family cores and from the top-down: selfless, coordinated and holistic policies from our local and global leaders.
For this “boomer” to experience and compare many of the conditions of the world from the 1970’s to current day is unnerving
The constant mental barrage of inhumanity and the idea of multiple truths are becoming more dangerous to our future, obviously. It all comes at us more discreetly and indiscreetly and “it” was always there until it became unleashed.
Now, it absolutely needs to be reconciled, or “it” will repeat.
We can be so manipulated with our under-developed levels of emotional intelligence and impressionable, fickle minds - just as we flock to brands and the loudest words of a cult of personality.
Though many people may be more aware and intelligent as individuals and groups of like individuals — as a human species, we are an unorganized organism going in destructive directions.
Until each of us can develop adequate self-esteem, inner confidence and true self-awareness so to then lift up one another, the need to be led is only to be wholly-informed, then filtered and questioned — never to blindly follow or to confirm your biases.
Education and critical thinking are just a start. Empathy and compassion fills the gray between the journeys. Sharing, connecting, and giving is the expectation towards the solution.
20 to 30 years from now, no one will admit they were pawns
10 years or 20 years from now, science and mathematics will be ubiquitous binary understandings of which no conspiracy can thwart and no politics can sway.
Five to 10 years from now, systems will rise further to help liberate us from establishments.
Today, some Centennials and late Millennials take the torch to be this century’s next great generations, while the rest of us face reconciliation and find courage to better our inner voices.
If we don’t reach a global collective consciousness and economic models with equal considerations of humanity, we’ll see more perils of vertical global population.
If we remain fractured and uncoordinated, we’re susceptible to the cancers caused by us. From pandemics to the environment to the financial systems to politics and so on - it's all been happening in front of us.
Any hope for answers has to be started and sustained with our "leaders."
