Technology can be broadly defined as an ability to use tools and knowledge as a mechanism to control and adapt parts of our environment.

Throughout human history there has always been a necessity for social cohesion, as evolutionary pack animals we learned early on, it was safer and more productive to be part of a group. Hierarchical power structures seemed to have provided the greatest benefit when it came to managing the tribe, but as our tribes have become exponentially larger this approach may no longer fit the purpose for which it was intended. Tribal leaders have been replaced by global leaders able to dictate world policy that not only effects individuals, but also global environmental conditions.

The approach taken by the global leaders of today is to implement ideologies considered to be complete and perfect, using them to steer the masses towards a subjective vision of a future society. Ideologies are carefully crafted into a social, political and economic system, driven by procedures, legislation's, laws, cultural etiquette and even religious doctrine, all forged together to form a hulking machine by which to march society forward to the same beat.

The problem with this approach of courses is that these ideologies are not only subjective but are also guided by multiple self-interest groups within the realms of the hierarchy. As the mechanisms of the social machine turn they begin to grow, gaining mass and power. New laws are added, new systems patch onto the old, the population expands, new rules, new technology, soon the machine takes on a life of its own, a hulking great mass of red tape, committees, interest groups and politicians. It becomes impossible to meet the needs of all people equally, inevitably the so-called righteous path of the greater good is taken.

What really is the greater good? Many decisions have been made with this argument over the years, in fact politicians are still using it while ignoring overwhelming evidence clearly depicting the consequences. Murdering millions of innocent human beings is but a small price to pay, "for the greater good". The righteous can always justify their actions, be it for the illusion of a god, a so-called sacred book, the name of a prophet, even for freedom. They all play the same game. This ideology is made possible today exactly as it was generations ago. Through the skillful application of social propaganda and indoctrination the minds of the masses can be herded to the current direction required by the power structures.

At the same time, the belief held by public opinion is that government exists and expands to protect and serve the people (the greater good). It is of course the people, who in all cases become submissive servants to to the growing system of consolidated power.

When individual rights are sacrificed for institutionalized systems, a corruption of power will always occur, it is an inevitability. If we give away the very thing that makes us human, to a non-human conceptualized system, we will be forced to accept inhuman conditions enforced by abstract polices. Rules for the sake or rules, laws that subvert truth and honesty, the rapid decline of social morals, ethics and values. A decline of society to such a state, leaving only the tools of fear as mechanisms to maintain social order.


Sounds familiar?


There have been many implementation and attempts at providing a fair and equal society, yet each one has floundered and either been removed as a failed experiment, or corrupted until again the power has been aggregated into the hands of a few. Currently we live in the age of so called democracy, I say so-called as the model we use today is not representative of a true meaning of the word. The meaning of democracy has been corrupted so-much-so, as to include a whole spectrum of hierarchical bastardizations of totalitarian dictatorships.


Democracy - from the Greek word demokratia "rule of the people".


Today we live under a wartime dictatorships, an empire of plutocracy hidden under the guise of globalization. Today's state of human society is deadlier than any conflict that has ever come before. Many people will fail to see the evidence of this, the only wars visible to them being the one's on terrorism, crime, drugs and resources. I would suggest that these are not wars but merely skirmishes on the grand chessboard of the economic, social and psychological battlefield currently being played out, and as consumers we inadvertently act as financiers to one of the most destructive and brutal wars in human history.

Intellectuals along with the political and religious leaders they advise, gain their status in principle through the accumulation of knowledge within a particular area. Although this knowledge may be restricted to a niche scope it does not refrain them from adopting a tone of authority in excess of it.

As a society we seem to have taken if for granted that these people are knowledgeable in all areas within which they speak. Dangerously we promote them into the highest positions of power commanding authority over every part of our lives. History will remind us time and time again, as to the foolishness of this notion.

Those who act as intellectuals or authorities within defined scopes of study, are in most parts abstracted from the totalities of the real world, and its factual issues. Take for example any of the methods implemented for social-order, be it democracy, socialism, fascism, communism, whatever the flavor, the empirical validity of them all have proven to be non-beneficial to the human species as a whole. Why? Well this is easily answered when we understand that the underlying economic structure in each one has fundamentally remained same.

The reasons for this economic morphing while preserving the systemic problem can be understood if we acknowledge the psychological nature of ourselves. The label of an intellectual, be it leader, teacher etc, in itself promotes a figure of authority, in being an authority the individual gains social validation, all human beings have a need for validation.

There is then a paradoxical situation that exists within the human condition. We are prepared to make change, in so much as that change continues to preserves the beliefs and images we hold of ourselves, and our image within society. In the case of social cohesion, intellectuals have and will continue to promote ideas and reforms, only in-so-much as it continues to provide validation to their own being. The validation we use within todays modern societies is exactly the same as it has been for generations, "power". Predominately power is represented by wealth, however power is also represented by elevation of status within a society, ie, how others acknowledge to you.

There is then no incentive for intellectuals to radically change a system that could possibly negate their own social status. This is why we continue to see the preservation of an economic system that has proven over and over to be detrimental to our being, holding back our evolution with disastrous consequences to our environment.

If we truly wish to make functional positive change within our societies, we must first make that change within ourselves. For the same egotistical barriers that exists within our leaders also exist within ourselves. There is no messiah that can place us on a global path to peace and co-operation, we must first cultivate this peace and co-operation within ourselves, in our families and in our communities. By doing so we remove our dependency and outgrow the systems of old.

To achieve this we must become responsible and understand who we truly are. Only by letting go of the materialistic desires, the illusion and distractions can we begin to see our own individual truth. Through acceptance of this simplistic truth can our a actions be made manifest and something new may then emerge.


Peace, love and truth



Pace

All human being have questions, we ask these on all matter of things. In asking we are, in general seeking a resolution in answers. Some can be answered with a level of certainty, there are others of course, no matter how hard we try, seem to be impossible to resolve. They seem to continue to generate but more questions. The more we ask the more convoluted they become, it can feel like running on a hamster wheel, every new inquiry causing a new divergence, yet another path to stumble down, another twist in the maze of confusion taking us further away from the resolution we so dearly desire.

The questions to which I refer to are not generated through education, religion, or even of current affairs, for they are not questions of tangible things. The ones to which I refer come from a place deep inside the human soul. They are inherently natural and they that scratch away at the layers of ones reality. They boil-up from under the skin, an irritation, growing, spreading within the being.

Left alone these can become of great irritation, so much so, that they may interfere with everyday life. How can a natural-person continue to focus on being a normal, effective, member of society with this unknowing, clawing at the back of the mind, the source hidden behind a thick fog of nonconformity and challenging the status-quo of social acceptance.

We can of course find ways to avoid this miserable state of affairs, humans have become very good at it, as a matter of fact. There are all manner of ways to numb out this crippling condition.

Some may find solitude in religion, offering a quick fix in the form of faith and following. Others may turn to science, for it has an array of pills, chemicals and brightly colored cocktails in all flavors of avoidance. There are of course alternatives like the pursuit for power, dominance, sex, or for the avid collector simply the drive for attaining yet more material possessions.

Whatever the choice, one may have peace of mind in knowing, they are not alone in this affliction of the human species, rest assured there have been many before you, mapping out ways to follow, thus easing the burden of individual responsibility.

There is of course an alternative route to which a sufferer may take, I mention it only for the sake of completeness. Of course it is an absurd direction as it involves heading towards that which knowingly causes pain. In taking this approach we may become left with a paradox. Choosing to follow the unresolvable, furiously spinning the hamster-wheel, devoting entire energy to something with no ultimate resolution. What can this ever achieve.....?


What can it achieve....?


Can it achieve....?


If we can allow ourselves to accept a world without fixed resolution, then maybe just maybe we attach to that which is constant motion.




Peace, love and truth (which ever truth you may follow).



Pace

Those who choose to see the world through the eyes of truth are truly the courageous, for they know of the struggle, of the loneliness and of the sadness that truth invariably brings.  In these people resides a resolve like no other.  It is an acceptance of self, of knowing, of letting go of the illusions and make believe. 

These are the people to whom I admire, though they may not be rich, famous nor educated in social institutions, I consider them true leaders of our species. Though they may fall many times, it is in their ability to raise again that truly inspires. 

To each and every one of you I give my thanks, stay strong, keep your faith, you will achieve the impossible.