Ton:
re: “we” identification
and civilization is not “our” friend…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkEmLRCP078&feature=related
Elena:
Hi Ton,
What makes you think that We is identification? or I, you, they, Us? The identification is not in the language but in the individual my friend.
Is this man with his purely instinctive understanding of civilization what you call civilization? And the fact that we are dependent on each other, not friendly?
Yes, there's a huge inner step that needs to be taken to understand that we are not only dependent on each other but that we can rely and trust each other and that the oil in the world is for all of us, to use for our benefit and not to cause great damage to our selves and nature. The car industry is the expression of such individualistic mentality and the damages it creates needs to be stopped. Not only the environmental damages but the psychological underpinnings of a culture that was created with it in which individualism was taken to inhuman extremes rendering people more selfish and self centered than is in our human nature only for the purpose of selling more cars. The public service was not developed as coherently and efficiently as it could have been developed so that the car producers could sell more cars.
In terms of the Work, it is an over-extension of the moving instinctive center in society, acting against the well being of the human being, in other words: uncivilized.
Civilization is the balance of all areas of life for the well being of humanity. A "civil" individual is one who is conscious enough for each of his or her acts to be not only for his or her personal benefit but for the well being of the whole. The lack of consciousness in people who do business to benefit only themselves knowing that their business is harmful to others is obvious. It's the difference between acting from the "ego" or selfish and false identity or acting from the "I" or conscious identity. Every individual man and woman is putting his and her personal imprint in the rest of society in each and every one of his and her acts. The fact that this reality is barely perceived by most people is an aspect of our levels of consciousness today. People think their acts affect only themselves, that they don’t “count” for the rest of society and this is precisely an aspect of the generalized state of depression of so many individuals in our societies. The more connected, the more reliable interdependency between an individual and his or her group of people and society, the higher the level of self-trust and capacity for joy.
In our times there's an schizophrenic behavior in our societies in which politics, science, economy, religion and the arts are not working together but making tremendous independent efforts for the privilege of those in economic power for whom everyone else is working. This reveals the state of our consciousness as human beings. It is not that those in economic power KNOW what they are doing, they are acting as unconsciously as the rest and are as much the victims of such status quo as the rest. Having more “things”, having more “money” but being equally separated from the whole is equally “depressing”. In rich societies like that of Sweden and in the small pockets of high income groups in every nation, we can verify that balanced well being does not come from owning more things. There are more or less balanced well beings in every niche of society and it does not depend on the economic conditioning but on the freedom from any such conditionings: not because one is rich one has to mistreat others, not because one is economically in disadvantage, one has to submit to power. There is an individual inner freedom when individuals understand that their humaneness is above their economic, academic, national or family upbringing.
If we were talking about an individual, we would be seeing a man whose mind acted randomly separated from his or her body and emotional life, which is in fact the case of most human beings today. We are split in our lives because there is no coherence or harmony between the individual and society. Individuals are struggling to survive in a society that acts against their well being and society is struggling to survive with individuals that are not conscious of each other’s connectedness, interdependency and humaneness. Men run around looking for more and more women to have sex with, without investing themselves in the family leaving women and children to fend for themselves. Women run around trying to make sense of the madness, making their own living in a world that still takes more money out of their pay check than men, trying to participate in society like men do, taking as much energy out of the family as men have and leaving the children to fend for themselves without being able to. These are the saddest aspects of “OUR” present madness.
The crisis of the “state”, the “governments” today, is that they allowed for the moving, instinctive aspects of society to grow phenomenally allowing its few representatives to acquire excesses that belong to the whole, which made them very “fat” but equally sick. They die because their heart is not strong enough to hold that amount of greed: no heart is.
Globalization means that we are moving towards one government and the people of each nation are so identified with themselves that they are struggling to keep their individualism but a conscious unity of human beings should not deform the essence of any nationality, on the contrary, it should empower it and allow it to flourish just like the support of a family for its children allows them to develop more fully in society. The full support of all humans for the qualities of the people of each nation should allow us to develop all the dimensions within us in this Earthly Sphere. We live very difficult times in which almost nothing is of any value but the greatness of the human being is present in the culture of every nation.
The nations in power today have become so by exploiting the resources of all the world. Their richness does not belong to them only but to all of us and we should all be grateful for what we’ve given each other: the resources to develop and the capacity to develop those resources into new and greater developments for democracy. We are talking today, you and I, because of these developments. It is a very beautiful phenomena!
We can look at this condition from the point of view of judging and condemning our selves and the actions of those who have most powerfully developed such levels of individualism or we can look at it from the point of view that every step that has been taken by each and every individual and nation was necessary for the development of our consciousness, including every mistake that was and is being made. Falling is part of the process of learning to walk. I am today personally inclined for the latter.
We live very interesting times Ton. The consciousness I am expressing is also current in our times. There are many efforts being made to close the gaps between our multiple centers and our consciousness, individually as much as socially.
Thanks for your post. I realize this is long and you don't have the time or the interest for such long thoughts but I thank you for giving me the opportunity to develop what I am working on.
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