Love more?

It’s inevitable that we strive for improvement, growth of virtues, adaptation to changes in the environment, positive impact in our immediate surrounding and by acting positively all around us we better our society in general and ultimately the civilization. Deep within our psyche we balance all virtues and faults trying to achieve some sort of an equilibrium, and what emerges at the surface is kindness, empathy, tolerance and understanding; all of them together underlying fundamentals of the niche that is us. And only then we can stand tall and proudly craft a promising future. It’s as simple as that, this is written in our genetic code.

Our tomorrows are intertwined with many challenges. Our egos are a big part of this, they need to be removed from the equation. There are so many of us, we must think in plural. Our growth in numbers, our different cultures and religions, they’re a marvelous blessing an enrichment of our values, not a curse or a reason to drive ourselves into mists of oblivion. Ego is not only lack of knowledge, is also lack of understanding. All voices are present in this symphony of mankind, we need to learn to listen, not just speak. Each and everyone of is a part of everyone else, we’re never alone… so, why ego?

The building block of capitalism is our nature of consumerism, bit by bit influencing every aspect of our lives, and gradually transforming into greed, envy, intolerance, aggression, emphasizing an expanding division and volatility. Utilization of economic goods creates false pretenses of happiness, satisfaction, fulfillment and joy. This is a mechanism which exploits our need for more, greed as an input, and more greed as an output; a marketing ploy abusing the positive cybernetic feedback. The need to consume, just to consume. It’s not only an apparent destruction of our core values, but it’s destructive on the environment, degrading ecological systems, hurting the planet.

And this stands as a sacrilege to our senses, an offense to our build, it’s opposite to our nature. With modesty, moderate consumerism based on necessity, peaceful acceptance of outcomes, achievement of inner tranquility, we understand our soul better, thus creating a path based not only on ambition, but also on improvement, evolution and growth. Our society is democracy, not capitalism.

We say that if life is a deep sleep, then love is the dream. So, love more?

Sixth Mass Extinction

Across endless odds we are in this point in time with the reality we perceive at this very moment, a chance out of nearly infinite, chosen by the theory of bifurcations and the concept of causality, based on our actions and choices. We are here, because we wanted to be here.

All our individual growth and civilization gains have presented us with this present reality, an event determining the future. This future is not only ours, since we are the dominant species on our homeworld, we are responsible of all life on Earth, even the planet itself. We stand here as an inevitable consequence of ourselves.

And at the moment we don’t have a clue what comes next, our plans aren’t delicate anymore, it seems we don’t have any. We lack responsibilities, even though we’ve established ourselves firmly as the most widespread species on the planet. With our actions we influence on the rapid change of the living environment. As a dominant species we’re directly hindering the evolutionary development of all other species.

Above all, with our activities we’ve marked ourselves into the geology of the planet, and henceforth starting a new epoch in its history, conveniently called Anthropocene. The fossil record is shifting rapidly to reflect human-led globalization, including: prevalence of domesticated animals over wild species and evolutionary changes seen in domesticated crops. With our self-centric behavior in the last 60 years we’ve skyrocketed extinction rates of species reaching 1000 times the rate of preindustrial periods. The evidence how we’re impacting Earth’s ecosystem are devastating: acceleration of the global warming, chemical perturbations, technofossils, radioactive fallout, ocean acidification.

And how this impacts planet’s biota? Entire families of species are threatened to become extinct this century. This will bring massive fluctuations in the food chain and pull with it other species into oblivion, triggering a mass dying event on a planetary scale.

Dear me, welcome to the Sixth Mass Extinction!

Wandering explorers

Deep within our essence we're curious drifters. At times curiosity brings our mindset to a point when we see something for the first time. Our perception is based in terms of familiarity, at first we try to categorize it somewhere in our immense library of knowledge. These unknowable ideas despite their impossibility of existence, according to our foundations of knowledge, show tendency of confusion to our perception, but on the other hand they tickle us with thrive to understand them. 

 

This pursue eventually brings alteration and growth of our knowledge, nested firmly into our imagination, wisdom and humanity. This has happened countless times so far, creating for us unique path that we've followed throughout all eons of our existence, since our dawn as species. We're not designed to stand in dark domains of ignorance, we seek to know more.

 

Along with our growth, new expectations and predictions nest within us. Our biological senses have become insufficient to satisfy our appetite for knowledge, so we've built new improved ones designed from technology. These refined senses have brought us new ideas, concepts which sometimes confirm our understanding, sometimes rattling it.

 

This quest for knowledge brings us to a point where we question our understandings of our Home World and what lies beyond it, to the endless regions of space. Some of our concepts of nature are not quite accurate. This is not a burden to be frightened of, but a challenge. Here we need to explore the full potentials of our nervous system, it is a moment when we ought to reexamine the depth within us, as well as the depth above us. We need to feel our presence and seek our place within the concept of nature.

 

This represents a starting premise in why the times we live in are so interesting. We change our perception of reality in order to find the method(s) of the creation, its meaning and development to this point in time, and its future shape(s).

 

We're a young race still trying to figure out our belonging, we have patience.