People in the natural environment.
How people interact with their environment.
Nature
Technology
Contrived environments (buildings)
Where does our mind drift to when we are engaged in an activity which engages us with our direct environment?
Where does our mind go when we interact with the world and knowledge we can look up on the internet?
When we speak to someone on the other side of the world how does it make us aware of our direct environment?
Is today’s society becoming more and more obsessed with a ‘flat screen’ existence which distances us from our direct environment and also our responsibility to nature and how we live? Perhaps today’s conveniences are merely masking the ‘real’ which surrounds us and actually the lives which most people lead in order to really ‘live’ life is a fantasy. It is unreal and a contrived form of social control invented to keep us slaves. Slaves to the mass cause of pollution, of global procrastination, where responsibility is slung out the window in favour of a more ‘socially acceptable’ form of mass hegenomic acceptance of unsustainable exponential industrial growth. Social acceptance of an unsustainable economic system which only survives on a negative equity basis (ie. everyone’s debt), which in turn keeps everyone a slave to the machine. Media images bombard everyone on a global level everyday telling us to HAVE HAVE HAVE. MORE MORE MORE. GREED IS GOOD, SUFFERING IS BAD. That you too could live life like the mega rich and the super famous. So people carry on doing that job which they hate to keep up with the mortgage payments on a house which they don’t really own, they keep banging their heads against a beureucratic system which has never really worked in their favour for years. Until they retire and can spend their ‘golden’ years doing what they really want to do. But they have all been cheated out of their lives. The time they should have been living their life was when they were young and had enough energy to climb the mountains to fulfil their ambitions, to creatively think their way around problems, to interact and engage in a positive way to enable change for the good of future generations. If people spent less time thinking up ways to obtain things and accumulate stuff they don’t really need, and live a life out of harmony with nature, then maybe we could make a start on saving the planet. But the underlying nature of man is greed. Pure and simple. There have always been wars over land, assets, other nations’ wealth, don’t be fooled into thinking today’s wars are anything new. It is man’s greed which is to blame and as the planet’s natural resources run out things are only set to get worse. Don’t let the mega wealthy countries fool you into thinking they are meeting at global conferences with your best interests at heart. They are meeting purely and simply to carve up what’s left and try and come up with a palatable fairytale to tell the rest of the world’s inhabitants to lull them into a false sense of security that they are being ‘looked after’. Just toe the line quietly in a socially acceptable manner and you will have a good life. Because you will be in the ‘haves’ category and not the ‘have- nots’ category. The down-trodden underclass which stupid inane television programmes train people in society to despise or pity from an early age. Actually maybe there’s a different way of seeing things here. This class of people have broken through that mind field media constructed reality and re-programmed their brains into accepting less. They have decided that actually what you should be concerned with accumulating in life is KNOWLEDGE and what you should be concerned with is THE FUTURE EXISTENCE OF THE PLANET BECAUSE YOU ARE A RESIDENT ON IT! It makes sense really, doesn’t it? It’s not brain science. Or is it? So why isn’t everyone ditching their cars, which they can’t really afford to keep, on roads which are getting more and more congested and clogging up the atmosphere with harmful gasses which are threatening all existence on this planet? WHY? Because as much as people feel threatened by oil running out and fuel prices rocketing, what they are most concerned with on a Monday morning is getting to work on time! Jumping in a car is infinitely easier, more comfortable and generally quicker. It is the fundamental foundations of our society’s infrastructure which must change first in order to make an impact for the good on a global level. It is how people value success which must first be addressed in order to bring about lasting change. Old wisdoms must be re found and taught to younger generations. The wisdom of 2 or 3 generations ago, from the Second World War; make do and mend, create the new from something old, find joy in the unexpected places, appreciate effort not wealth, acknowledge life tenderly with care, discover the world in the small close to home. That travel can be an adventure when undertaken with physical effort. That perhaps we’d all benefit from working closer to home doing jobs we really want to do, to achieve personal ambitions to live a fulfilling life by living up to our full potential. To exercise the biggest muscles in our bodies- our brains. Society should see this stage as our evolution, evolve or risk extinction. We can all decide to change on a personal level, to reset our barometer of value. Actually it’s also quite strange what happens when you do, because sometimes, just occasionally, this can have entirely the opposite affect to the one we have been trained by society to accept. I.E you now have excelled yourself into an entirely unique category of brave individuals who make history. This might not be financially viable- but who cares? You don’t need useless crap if you don’t need comforting because you do a job which you hate and has a negative impact on your life. So what if you don’t have that shiny car? Cycling keeps you fit and it gives you the inner satisfaction that you are helping the planet. Perhaps a little bit of hardship is character building, maybe suffering can offer you a challenge- it can give you a sense of satisfaction when you get to the end of it. Maybe fighting hard for something you believe in can lead to a sense of achievement. Thinking altruistically has its own benefits too. Maybe thinking outside the boxes breaks new ground.
