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It’s not hard to see that society, our economy, and the political system formerly known as democracy are limbing around like a terminal cancer patient.
I imagine you too can feel something’s off, on a deeper level.
Our former systems worked for quite a while, but they’re getting obsolete. The stories behind them, the values we believed in, the cultures that were binding us together, are getting outdated.
Take Capitalism.
It has given us many great decades of apparent abundance, worry-less ultra consumerism, and tons of products to make our lives easier. Obviously, I am talking about the privileged West here. Gen-Z and millennials are a rare species that before the Trump era never have been engaged with life-threatening wars or serious existential crises.
It’s all coming to an end my friends.
What many writers, podcast hosts, and even self-acclaimed thought leaders refuse to see is the debt, magnitude, and real essence of the system shift we’re about to experience.
It will be the biggest paradigm shift we’ve ever gone through. Maybe the dinosaur extinct event was bigger, but still, it’s in the same category.
The caterpillar, when it’s dying, doesn't realize what it will become.
It’s only occupied with the process of dying, ultimately giving way to beauty and grace beyond its former imagination of caterpillar-ism.
We’re in the process of dying. All of our systems are. We have no clue yet what thriving new self-consciousness potential will be birthed out of this process. All we can do is let go. So why don't we let go?
Well, there are huge obstacles in the way.
These are the biggest challenges of our times that stand in the way of our transformation as humanity.
We can’t see our mindset is outdated
Why are we not happily embracing our decay, get rid of our failing old rotten systems ASAP, and collectively run towards our new bright future as humanity, trusting our butterfly will be breathtaking?
This has a very understandable and almost innocent explanation.
We are approaching the current crises with a mindset, terminology, and consciousness from where the catastrophes have emerged from. This gives us the illusion we can fix this mess. We have mastered the art of denial beyond what's healthy.
Or what this bright man cleverly remarked some 100 years ago;
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them — Albert Einstein
We are ending the burning fires on the planet with more fire
With the means we try to end one catastrophe here, a few years later this often non-tested and experimental solution causes even more catastrophic events. Since the scale increased exponentially.
We then call this progress and slap ourselves and some scientists on the back with Nobel prices.
The green revolution, a partly chemical answer to increase the production of topsoil layers to meet food demands on an expanding planet seemed like a brilliant push forward for agriculture. Some believed it saved the lives of one billion people. On the flipside, pesticides left us with proven widespread cancer, poisoned land, seas, and air, and according to human virome pioneer Zack Bush, skyrocketing autism, autoimmune diseases, and other unforeseen trouble that is affecting way more than 1 billion people on earth.
Yep, we’re not the best, wisest, and most loving and caring problem solvers looking for the long term.
Money doesn't have patience
Profit models and exponentially growing technology are continuously driving us forward in a dangerous quest we call progress. This is preventing us to look back and actually notice the trail of devastation we are causing for ourselves, our environments, our children, and our hearts.
The role of technology in pushing us over the cliff of civilization
When we zoom out, look back, we might notice this timeframe might be the first moment in the history of civilization that technology might end it all.
For centuries, we needed our pantheon of Gods to fill the gap between our tool-making capacity, our ways to coordinate tribe and society, and to understand the complexity of what surrounds us, to move forward. We needed deities, offerings, and prayers to give us the illusion of controlling the whimsical forces of nature that could destroy crops or flood entire settlements into oblivion.
In the 21st century, this gap is closing.
Currently, we believe it's us that is finally in control. We actually believe we’ve now become little gods in our Universe so we don't need those myths, stories, and Gods outside of us anymore.
We’ve got technology and science. We rock.
For the Alien bystander, this thought is so ridiculous when we simply look at all the catastrophes that are clearly happening right in front of our noses. We’ve never seemed so much out of control in this era of gene- modification, bio-tech, and, why not, mRNA vaccines.
At the root of this revolution of technology, the 4th industrial revolution, is self-learning machines, A.I, quantum computing.
The drama of exponential self-learning tech
It started when a computer named Deep Blue beat Kasparov with chess. The next step 20 years later was a self-learning machine teaching itself chess within 4 hours. After this upload, Googles alpha zero was able to beat the best chess computers around.
Say no more. Here is where it ended for humanity. Can you even remotely sense the devastating consequences?
It's big tech on a rampage to push humanity over the cliff since that solves quite some problems that we, little humans, apparently are not able to solve.
We are happily letting tech doing the big cleanse. We handed our current crisis management task of the century, the most important thing for humanity to overcome, over to A.I.
Well, Houston, we have a problem.
Artificial intelligence doesn't have a soul, a heart, and doesn't know Love. Ultimately, you can't teach an algorithm real human wisdom.
If it can, we’re f*cked, and maybe we are already.
The solution here is to take back decision making into human hands again by adding ethical awareness, love and wisdom.
Why do we refuse to look at the root level?
Why are we outsourcing our termination to exponential technology?
Because Tech and science have become our modern religion. And…maybe the profit models behind science are the bad actors.
They favor certain ‘empirical ‘outcomes above others or cherry-pick data in order to manipulate the public, to buy into a new method that has been scientifically proven.
Maybe it's human nature.
We love to play around with new inventions as a huge distraction for really going within to explore our inner landscape, to simply face our pain of existence.
We have started to push things to the limit to at least feel something.
This is because denying what we really feel deep in our hearts, facing the fact that the earth is dying, recognizing the harm we do to ourselves and others, has numbed us out to such a degree that mass addiction, medicine abuse, and lying has become the number one cure.
The only real cure here is to start making soul journeys within. To boldly go where nobody ever went before.
We need to enter the dark night of humanities soul, instead of trying to make it to Mars
We shred away to go to the core of things, to the pain of humanity, our own pain, shame, and core unworthiness. We lack the tools to sink to an existential level and really feel and embrace what’s out of balance within us.
How Hyper Culture Hijacks us From Looking at Humanities Pain
The solution
Our incapability to face the debt of our pain and our truth leads to funky very out-of-tune problem-solving choices that make things only exponentially worse.
We continue to use the tools that caused the shit to end the shit.
We believe we can end this ongoing information warfare with more polluted news, bullshit mainstream media propaganda and marketing narratives pushing things we really don't want as humanity. Simply because there are billions behind these campaigns and they did make the elite richer and the masses dumber and more addicted.
So why not push it to the limit?
We try to stop the extinction of fish species through driftnets by adjusting the drift nets and calling them ‘sustainable drift nets’. We’ve decided to scrape the bottom of the deepest oceans with robots in search of the last nickel, copper, and lithium to be able to feed our supercomputers and iPhone 12.
We have no clue what the million tons of debris pushed back into the ocean will do to the already almost dead ocean ecosystem. We simply don't seem to care.
There is too much at stake is the slogan to make your eyes wide shut while the industry pushes for 5G and more untested shit to out roll the planned global mass surveillance state, the amazing reset towards global control that we all are looking so much forward to feel safe in our small digital box pushed over our heads.
See the mechanism here?
We simply don't care or take the time to even start to study the consequences. since we lost that ability to feel, sense, care, touch and even think.
To be really human.
The way forward is to take a step back
We are looking for ways to make democracy come back, to return to a healthy Capitalist economic system that is ‘growing’ again. We are longing for a society that is normal again running on the same values that have been breaking it apart.
That's a dead-end street.
There is no more looking back. There is only looking within. For every soul on this planet.
To finally embrace an inner ethical compass that can turn into wise collective decision-making. That will say a big NO to further blind tech progress that only can lead to killing our habitat and control us all.
It's time to take a step back instead of the fanatically obsessed step forward.
Are you joining?