Kingsley. Thanks for this. You think in broad sweeps of time, circumstances and realities, in consideration of the materialistic impetus of our age, an era where Eros as a manifestation of harmony and beauty has become transformed into the iconic status of Mechaneros, where Eros as a portrait of human growth in a multidimensional sensitivity is subsumed by the feature of that thirteen year old yoot, popping "wheelies" of the seemingly magical machine provided by his doting parents as a premature premonition of living within and celebration of mere mechanism; an expression of bondage to a mechanistic Weltansschaung where material matters are all that matters in a state of enrapturement and ensorcellment, within a material construct rather than in direct attunement with his personal body, mind, soul and spirit.
"A human-centric future" as you incisively and succinctly describe it, is indeed our only hope as a sentient species. Ronnie Raygunz, before being elevated into high orfices, was previously a mouthpiece for a major corporate entity: "Remember, at General Electric, PROGRESS is our most important product". It is this mythos of progress which is the haunting Bete Noir of our contemporary reality. The trajectory of this materialistic version of "progress" is both hypnotic and near fully encompassing. Events co-developed along with urbanization and industrialization (now fast becoming post-industrial) are zooming along at virtual warp-speed within the psyches of the masses.
Attempts at even beginning to pretend to a grasp of the totality of this process is almost mind-boggling. As a technophobe, my personal trajectory veers off the beaten-path into a directionality which can be described as Retroprojectivity. As an historian, in part via formal education, but primarily as a seeker of previous realities within the human universe; it becomes essential to consider, for examples, the traditional commons in England and the mir as the foundation of rural life in traditional Russia. Also needful of retroprojective inquiry, both the Hellenic experiences and those of the Renaissance are essential to the re-discovery of both higher and more communitarian realities within the human experience.
One of the precepts which I hold is that of the ancient African proverb: "It takes a village to raise a child". Contrarily in the collective West and most particularly here in the massively deracinated disunited $tates; sub-urban reality has become the dominant leitmotif. As Gertrude Stein observed more than a century ago: "There is no there there". Sub-urban "culture" is just that...a jungle of dissociation and quiet desperation. In those warrens of materialistic memes, the picture is that of Cave-dad, Cave-Mom and the 2.38 little Cave-nukes alone against the rest of the world. Those scenes witness a poverty of imagination and a generalized herd mentality. In short, they are negative environments in which to raise a child.
My future population dispersion vision consists of three elementary formulations. Back to the Commons for those who would breed and raise children. Within that environment of social wealth, a child grows into adolescence as a cherished and yet liberative individual.
Fast forward into the years of adolescence, the Medieval proposition of the market town of some few thousands of people would feature masters of various trades and suchlike in addition to the commercial enterprises. Young "adults", primarily but not exclusively males, would migrate to those scenes in order to learn adult roles in their preferred directions. Their worlds would enlarge and their individualities encouraged.
Finally, we arrive at the third entity...a replication of the city-state. Here, artists, poets, philosophers would find their niches in supportive environments. Those couples who intend on children would not consider these places as particularly suitable for their offspring.
Just last week at a thrift store I purchased for a pittance a tripartite signage combined in a single plaque which now stands next to my window on the world: "Dream, Imagine, Create". In a nutshell that constant reminder captures my Retroprojective vision of a human-centric future.
Thanks Carstie..... as you rightly point out, the 'sub-urban'... and also sub-conscious life that many people are entangled within is 'a jungle of dissociation and quiet desperation'... and this is becoming increasingly toxic for our bodies, minds, and spirit... and pulling more and more people into the lower frequencies and domains of lower vibrations... as if the Tranq is spreading like wildfire and dissolving the human condition. These are critical times... we need those masters of trades to come back, before a tech-mediaeval dark age comes a-looming .... YES - Dream, Imagine, Create..... and connect to Being ..
Kingsley. Thanks for this. You think in broad sweeps of time, circumstances and realities, in consideration of the materialistic impetus of our age, an era where Eros as a manifestation of harmony and beauty has become transformed into the iconic status of Mechaneros, where Eros as a portrait of human growth in a multidimensional sensitivity is subsumed by the feature of that thirteen year old yoot, popping "wheelies" of the seemingly magical machine provided by his doting parents as a premature premonition of living within and celebration of mere mechanism; an expression of bondage to a mechanistic Weltansschaung where material matters are all that matters in a state of enrapturement and ensorcellment, within a material construct rather than in direct attunement with his personal body, mind, soul and spirit.
"A human-centric future" as you incisively and succinctly describe it, is indeed our only hope as a sentient species. Ronnie Raygunz, before being elevated into high orfices, was previously a mouthpiece for a major corporate entity: "Remember, at General Electric, PROGRESS is our most important product". It is this mythos of progress which is the haunting Bete Noir of our contemporary reality. The trajectory of this materialistic version of "progress" is both hypnotic and near fully encompassing. Events co-developed along with urbanization and industrialization (now fast becoming post-industrial) are zooming along at virtual warp-speed within the psyches of the masses.
Attempts at even beginning to pretend to a grasp of the totality of this process is almost mind-boggling. As a technophobe, my personal trajectory veers off the beaten-path into a directionality which can be described as Retroprojectivity. As an historian, in part via formal education, but primarily as a seeker of previous realities within the human universe; it becomes essential to consider, for examples, the traditional commons in England and the mir as the foundation of rural life in traditional Russia. Also needful of retroprojective inquiry, both the Hellenic experiences and those of the Renaissance are essential to the re-discovery of both higher and more communitarian realities within the human experience.
One of the precepts which I hold is that of the ancient African proverb: "It takes a village to raise a child". Contrarily in the collective West and most particularly here in the massively deracinated disunited $tates; sub-urban reality has become the dominant leitmotif. As Gertrude Stein observed more than a century ago: "There is no there there". Sub-urban "culture" is just that...a jungle of dissociation and quiet desperation. In those warrens of materialistic memes, the picture is that of Cave-dad, Cave-Mom and the 2.38 little Cave-nukes alone against the rest of the world. Those scenes witness a poverty of imagination and a generalized herd mentality. In short, they are negative environments in which to raise a child.
My future population dispersion vision consists of three elementary formulations. Back to the Commons for those who would breed and raise children. Within that environment of social wealth, a child grows into adolescence as a cherished and yet liberative individual.
Fast forward into the years of adolescence, the Medieval proposition of the market town of some few thousands of people would feature masters of various trades and suchlike in addition to the commercial enterprises. Young "adults", primarily but not exclusively males, would migrate to those scenes in order to learn adult roles in their preferred directions. Their worlds would enlarge and their individualities encouraged.
Finally, we arrive at the third entity...a replication of the city-state. Here, artists, poets, philosophers would find their niches in supportive environments. Those couples who intend on children would not consider these places as particularly suitable for their offspring.
Just last week at a thrift store I purchased for a pittance a tripartite signage combined in a single plaque which now stands next to my window on the world: "Dream, Imagine, Create". In a nutshell that constant reminder captures my Retroprojective vision of a human-centric future.
Thanks Carstie..... as you rightly point out, the 'sub-urban'... and also sub-conscious life that many people are entangled within is 'a jungle of dissociation and quiet desperation'... and this is becoming increasingly toxic for our bodies, minds, and spirit... and pulling more and more people into the lower frequencies and domains of lower vibrations... as if the Tranq is spreading like wildfire and dissolving the human condition. These are critical times... we need those masters of trades to come back, before a tech-mediaeval dark age comes a-looming .... YES - Dream, Imagine, Create..... and connect to Being ..