Modern Society Sleep-walks to its End


Just think about the consequence of trying to convince some reveling
drug addicts--particularly when they are in the company of drug
peddlers--about the devastating ill effects of druggism or
alcoholism? One must only be lucky enough just to come out un-
attacked and unhurt in an ensuing brawl from such eventualities. I
think the same thing can be said about the consequence of someone
trying to convince modern man about the catastrophic ill effects of
the hi-tech consumerist modern civilization upon the society and the
environment, particularly when he is reveling in the company of
modern experts, professionals of the market force.

Now it's been proved even scientifically that civilization is an
addiction. And a highly mechanized civilization like the modern
society is the most insidious of addictions because most people
don't even know they are addicted to it. We are born into it and
accept it as part of our lives just as we do oxygen or food. To us,
civilization is no more an addiction than water or air - it is
simply part of life. But one day, some of us wake up, like Neo in
the Matrix, and realize that we have been living a dream -
unknowingly addicted to living a way that is harmful not only to
ourselves, but the rest of humanity as well.

The stark reality is that no one can save the world - civilization
can't be saved by anyone because civilization is inherently flawed.
Add to that the fact that the vast majority of us living this way
don't want to be saved - 99% of us don't think anything is wrong -
they are the addicted amongst us who think that the next hit of
heroin will be the "one." I can't save civilization.

Civilization has not increased the mental capacity of its subjects;
what it has done is to supply men with the opportunities, the
leisure, and the means to develop the mental gifts already attained
by man while living in a state of nature. And the continued
addiction to this opportunities and leisure in a mechanical fashion,
particularly while living in a state of machines, instead of living
in a state of true nature, only decreased the mental capacity of
the modern human species.

Superfluity of `studies' and the information `revolution' and their
supersaturated commercialization have, by mechanizing the mind,
resulted in their negative impacts: the majority of people wish away
even serious writers and are wary of their `findings', taking their
dire warnings as just routine and things go business as usual,
saying that many such past prophesies of gloom and doom proved
false quoting `lessons' from history, whereas the main disadvantage
of these serious writings and findings is the lack of `lessons' of
history, ---of lack of instances of end of the world. One symbolic
Titanic lesson is doing business and is being celebrated by the
consumerism savvy market, just as they celebrate success of Jurassic
Park and Harry Potters that caters as the real `Coke' of the mind,
just as coca cola is to their body. The highly market worked mass
mind goes on merry walking to the end of the world and the matured
minds also are being made passive.

Anything that goes against the market trial just do not sell. When
you have succeeded in making man think machine-like, you simply
cannot now expect them to think human-like.

Many think that the modern human society will go on for ever with
certain hiccups in between now and then. But this is under the false
convictism that history is deemed to repeat. What is however being
repeated, or seen as repeating is that part of human world or human
life over which man has control, namely the man-made part of the
world. Natural evolution is being blocked wherever man has control,
and through mechanization, man is artificially making his life
repeating. Nature however seems to have finally come to the final
conclusion: its irritant to natural evolution in being shown the
door. Or in other words, the history writing man with his history is
being thrown to the dustbin of nature's history.
John Muthukat
http://muthukat-on-professionalism.blogspot.com/






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