Just a little more effort
A few more discoveries and we will be there
One or two more improvements
Sacrifices now to reach heaven in the future.
It's in religion too.
You have to sacrifice now for heaven later.
You have to suppress your desires now for rewards in the future
Whoops!
The dream is coming unstuck
The silly dream that we can create heaven on earth through technology and more and more consumption
Through ever more labour saving devices
Through ever more trade
Ever more striving
Then we will reach paradise
Onward and ever upward we march
And yet and yet
Just about now we are noticing that the effort to maintain what we have been building is costing us ever more
In our current financial situation we are running not just to stand still but to stop ourselves from drowning
Drowning in debt and disappearing dreams
More television channels do not bring us anything
More labour saving devices do not do it
Life expectancies aren't going up any more.
New diseases aren't being conquered anymore.
In fact new ones are coming into being.
Old ones are coming back.
Endlessly expanding government and controls on everything is not the answer
Religion as presented today is a sorry spectacle of unappealing ritual and confusion
Divisive as ever with silly messages and endless stories of corruption
Human life isn't improving
The Emperor is naked
There is no dream
The dream is gone
The music is grinding to a halt
And yet and yet
Before any seismic shift there is always uncertainly
Resistance to change
Anger and shouting from those trying to protect the status quo
Maybe it was ever thus, the passing of one civilisation to another
From one state of mind to another
The new barely discernible
The idea of restraining growth
From ever more consumption to just enough for our needs
Do we really need that everyone has a car?
Does everyone need a lawnmower, would not one or two per street do?
And power tools, and so on
Why should so many have no jobs when we spend a fortune shipping in food?
Why not grow more locally?
Why not create more jobs locally?
Produce products designed to last
Work less
Why should work be admirable there are plenty of other things to do with life?
Animals do not rush about as we do, they rest, they amuse themselves
And with our brains it is not hard to see how many other things we can productively do with our time and energy
And those who have too much money let them give
For if they do not then it will be taken from them
Not a threat just read history
Real history that is, the truth
These changes are just a perception away
Your perception and mine that is
For a start the 'Emperor'' of endless growth and consumption' is certainly naked
Next we can and will create a more desirable model
A more human and interesting understanding of why we are here
One more step
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