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RE: Is Our Wasteful Lifestyle Just a Repeating, Instinctual Pattern?
good meditation on these themes. i also wonder if this is instinctual and habitual.. something that we need to evolve out of... but we also see people groups that did manage to live very well in alignment with their natural world.. sadly other ones lived beyond their carrying capacity and did not get the feedback in time.. and collapsed.
this is very clearly happening now on earth. will we get the message in time?
i'm not sure. but it always brings me more hope when i see others like yourself speaking out about it and raising awareness. thanks <3
We do seem to have gone through many cycles of self destruction like this. It would be nice to think that each one leads use closer to enlightenment. Sadly it's not looking like it will be this time around.
i agree. what makes you or i see it and others not (will to?)?
i genuinely wonder at that.
thoughts?
I often wonder if it's a state of mind. Willingness to be open to new thoughts and information. We had the situation many years ago where people who put forward what was considered a radical idea would be imprisoned or certainly ridiculed. Yet today we have proved many of those theories correct. Many people resist information that makes them uncomfortable or could force change. They would certainly resist information that they believe would make life harder for them.
We are also very much conditioned to immeditate reward. Another basic instinct (because who knows when the next meal will come in nature) which is very pandered to today. So having foresight to realise that going without now will reap larger reward later is something some people struggle with. There is probably also the fact that some feel they don't need to sacrifice when others can do it instead and they can benefit alongside. That probably feeds back to the poor sacrificing so the ruling class can benefit. This only works when the ruling class is small and the poor class large.