Beacon of Hope
The societies we all live in have created the current environment and future conditions in which our children and we live and are supposed to thrive. But as we look around us at the trauma in our streets, we must wonder what has gone wrong? Rising crime, deteriorating family structures, a corrupt business culture, a society built on materialism and greed, a culture strung together by two-minute disposable products, an environment full of ecological holes, a fast-paced rat race where no one even seems to have the time of day! Once upon a time, we were heading somewhere, right? Who’s got the map now?
So, who do we hang? Who’s the scapegoat for all this? Which politician, businessman, leader or religious figure do we string from the rafters in the throes of our collective wrath? Whoa! Hang on. What’s wrong with this picture, I might ask? Isn’t it time we Baby Boomers took a look at ourselves and the results of our decisions and choices in the past, the present and the future? Don’t we have some responsibility for this mess? Have we let ourselves and those we have brought into this world down, through our inaction to stymie the bleeding long before the transfusion became inevitable?
We’re looking for scapegoat solutions when our very hands chipped the holes in the dike. We think that we are reaping the whirlwind from other people’s realities when that is simply a delusion to defer doing anything about it. Simply put: it is time to stop behaving as Victims of Circumstance and become Beacon of Hope.
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February 6th, 2007 14:13 GMT
You are right there Sir. People ask what is the extra thing you learned from Sir Fahd despite from Computers. My answer is this beacon of hope. I don’t know of anybody else but at least I have started to stop blaming the society and fate.
February 18th, 2007 14:09 GMT
Your post is about greed, materialism and fast life. In response to this I want to post a part from my article which deals with similar issues.
The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues.
The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.
Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment.
Subject : In a fast society slow emotions become extinct.
Subject : A thinking mind cannot feel.
Subject : Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys the planet.
Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking.
If there are no gaps there is no emotion.
Today people are thinking all the time and are mistaking thought (words/ language) for emotion.
When society switches-over from physical work (agriculture) to mental work (scientific/ industrial/ financial/ fast visuals/ fast words ) the speed of thinking keeps on accelerating and the gaps between thinking go on decreasing.
There comes a time when there are almost no gaps.
People become incapable of experiencing/ tolerating gaps.
Emotion ends.
Man becomes machine.
A society that speeds up mentally experiences every mental slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.
A ( travelling )society that speeds up physically experiences every physical slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.
A society that entertains itself daily experiences every non-entertaining moment as Depression / Anxiety.
FAST VISUALS /WORDS MAKE SLOW EMOTIONS EXTINCT.
SCIENTIFIC /INDUSTRIAL /FINANCIAL THINKING DESTROYS EMOTIONAL CIRCUITS.
A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY CANNOT FEEL PAIN / REMORSE / EMPATHY.
A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY WILL ALWAYS BE CRUEL TO ANIMALS/ TREES/ AIR/ WATER/ LAND AND TO ITSELF.
To read the complete article please follow either of these links :
PlanetSave
EarthNewsWire
sushil_yadav
February 19th, 2007 09:22 GMT
@ Sushil: I like when you said fast and large society. This combination is the root cause of many problems, both mental and physical. Thanks for chipping in.