What we are missing
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Title: What we are missing [702 words]
Look out at the moonless night sky from a forest hidden from any trace of city lights; and if not, try to imagine.
What you see are bursts of sunlight from trillions of suns.
The ancient philosophers looking for the purpose of us humans beyond the human contributing consumerism, which is really not a contribution, could not imagine a world like today.
Put aside the thought that we contribute nothing, other than possibly food for the bacteria and compost; and maybe we are so poisonous that we contribute to the formation of future viruses. Again put those negative thoughts aside, alongside most humans today are bothered by the ants, spiders, lizards, and other insects that provide food for other animal species like birds fast disappearing, and the ants do also clean up rotting human flesh; without forgetting that most humans like nature on TV.
The advancements in technology, mostly coming off the battlefields allow us, using increasingly sophisticated instruments, to measure energy, light, temperature, and sound to the nth degree resulting in us humans in no time to speak of destroying the planet that has been around for 4.5 billion years (and Mars is not exactly teeming with intelligent life).
Building more and bigger bombs has not slowed down.
Who thinks the modern day man that Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper were referring to in their shallow song has gone mad or was born mad?
Pythagorus, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates and the last of these original thinkers all clustered together, Archimedes the Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily was dead more than 2200 years ago, a good 200 years before the birth of Christ, and not the slightest thought of a telescope that came about in the early 1600s.
Isaac Newton who would focus on light made up of different colors which gave off different temperatures of heat, not exactly an inconsquential discovery, was only born on Christmas Day 1642, a good 300 years before the start of World War II which took killing no longer needed innocent humans, into factory mass production.
Not only can we not stop warring even though we all know that the major weapon system suppliers who are one and the same as the mineral monopolists supply all sides to war, but we make out like we really do care about saving lives.
The Covid-19 with an almost 100% recovery rate, did have us staying home, getting fatter eating chips and dips. (It’s almost like this Covid kept them at home getting fat for the next round when they will be more weakened.)
There is a contradiction from the top down that has now flattened out.
Again, how come if the government was so caring about our health there is not a massive advertising campaign for veganism?
https://twitter.com/GaryGev…/status/1550219596921294850…
You can’t expect the people who eat animals to be the ones caring for the health of the planet.
We each have an opinion, but is it really ours when we know it has been manufactured by the talking heads on TV and radio with a personal agenda to make money that is priced fixed by the people controlling all the narratives along with the minerals which first supply the weapons manufacturers under the guise, “National Security”?
Has advancements in technology made us smarter or has their arrival simply confused us into thinking we are smarter, or is there something bigger going on?
Why wait for a miracle when we have the solutions at hand?
Wouldn’t it be best if we dispensed with the charade of competition and replaced the politicians and captains of industry all talking up a storm of how great they are and everyone else is stupid with the smartest people at building factories build everything beginning with a motor vehicle which doesn’t need advertising to sell itself, drives itself, is also cool looking, resulting in off the bat with everyone has a TESLA thus eliminating all waste propping up the illusion of competition, and diminishing jealousy, an uncontrollable emotion?
Do we want to wait until all nature is destroyed before we won’t know what we are missing?
Title: What we are missing [702 words]
Look out at the moonless night sky from a forest hidden from any trace of city lights; and if not, try to imagine.
What you see are bursts of sunlight from trillions of suns.The ancient philosophers looking for the purpose of us
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— Gary Gevisser (@GaryGevisser) July 23, 2022
