Computers in our Pocket, No Marbles in our Head

What does it mean when we talk about progress within the human species? What is that progression? What does it look like? Ask yourself this question now, write down what your definition of progress is, to us progression seems to be the path to regression, it seems that the more we build up the world or come out with better products and more efficient ways of doing things that we are falling into a very disillusioned state of being, we are regressing into what Robert Louis Stevenson would have called “The Hyde Character” or the shadow opposite of what the “Jekyll “character was, one was good and pure in its form and action the other was the shadow aspect, and when we talk of the shadow we are defining the repository of all the aggregate darkness in the souls of humans. To imagine how far we have come try this mental exercise,  imagine the world in its very primitive state, imagine what it must have looked like in the time period before we had electricity, before the industrial age, at a time when we all wore loincloths, while you think of this exercise walk or drive around your town or city and look at all the modernity while thinking of the antique or pre-historic, that is quite a gap, not in time but in technology, in progress, we have come a long way since then, we are smart, we are strong, we are advanced………but are we really, sure we carry computers around in our pockets and we can cure some illnesses and diseases and all that is great and needed……but are we more advanced, have we progressed to a better state.  We still have war, and war for money, resources, land and oil. We still worship great idols in the sky, we think we are the center of the universe, we think god talks to just us, we dream up this notion of a beautiful afterlife, we constantly lie to ourselves……are we any more progressed? That is an easy question to answer, we have grown in technology, we have advanced and still are advancing in that way at lightning speed, however our morality is on the decline. We poison the environment, we poison our food, divorce rates are still very high, prisons are filling up, some prisons are even now private, politicians are bought, war is on the rise, racism is rampant, yeah if that’s progression, I don’t want it.

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