
Guilt is not natural, beings that live in harmony with nature do not experience it. Plants, wild animals and indigenous tribal societies do not know guilt and have immunity to many diseases, unfortunately excluding the brutal force of civilization. Civilized statement calling them primitive is actually a personal and not scientific evaluation. There are no surveys nor measurements of endorphins that can prove, that their fulfilment with life is on the lower level than ours. Widening our perspective depends only on better understanding the roots of our culture.
Culture here is based on religion, that states in its holy scripture, that the earth is given to man who’s duty is to take care of it. Majority of scripture followers take care of themselves, while using natural resources and they are the active creators of culture and civilization. Semantic difference between ruling and taking care seems to be long lost, yet Old Testament remains the official base of Abrahamic religions, that up to date have founded territorial majority of culture in global civilization.
Majority, but not all of it. Older and more tranquil in missionary dogma religions still exist and are equal economic partners. Many of them have chosen, popular also in Christianity, surrender before conquering. Therefore they have longer remained native to land and culture of its origin, but with global migrations, their believers live everywhere, significantly influencing state and juridical structures based on European colonizing rules. That migrations have caused the cultural influence to happen in both directions.
Not long ago, before information age, there has been many different civilizations on the Earth. Probably the WW2 was the first moment, when all areas have been politically and economically touched by the same global event, with media active enough to have the knowledge of that fact reaching much wider social circles, than just a scientific one. That spectrum widens since then, amount of people noticing global economy and culture grows everywhere, thanks to the world wide web and individual development of many.
On the other hand, living in age of information can be chaotic to those, who have chosen not to learn more in this subject and prefer local circumstances without noticing its dependency on global events. Religions are traditional safe haven for such world-views. Obstacle they create in modern transformation lies in their nature of excluding other faiths as infidel ones. That way of thinking heavily influences global efforts on climate change and does not help in creating global community. Power of withdrawal is necessary to balance the innovation. To balance, but recently seems to be faster and more powerful than required.
Present global leaders usually belong to the generation, that remains sceptical to information age, because it was absent in their childhood and while reaching maturity. They remain supportive to the technological evolution, but short-sighted on its economical consequences to the ecosystem. They have been taught to think in term “us” and “them”, therefore with all good will and responsibility, they are unable to give up on certain perspectives, while other ones, created by global community of youth seem odd to them, or even dangerous. That is, how the recent condition of global culture can be diagnosed.
As a member of “middle generation”, if I’m not mistaken, it is the first time in history, when such race between generations has at stake the survival of civilization. If humans species is to survive, it must conquer its tendency to expand and widen its comfort zone with the other beings paying for it. It is old, universal way for agricultural societies, feudal structure. Effective while working with swords but not with nuclear weapons. Present acceleration in population growth and climate change is the shadow effect of such definition of good, varying in every feudal based culture. Effect of leaderships, that were based on isolation from each other and on state of competing. Ironically to own isolation, that predatory, territorial way of thinking is also, what they have in common.
Old leaders are unable to give up on that, because their survival truly was based on expansion of own community and not on sustainable economy on inhabited land. Such perspective is not the mistake in governing for them, but their raison d’état. Calming the offspring down, explaining that problems they perceive are not as big as they see them, has been a parent’s role since ever. That’s why they are immune to the arguments of youth now, just as they always were. But situation was never so global, like it presently is. The main question of that “species survival race” is if the today’s parent has the sufficient knowledge to calm down and stick to old ways with full responsibility, that it will be enough? Will youth be patient enough to explain? Conquering on emotional level is not equal with winning the debate based on scientific terms. The change of old pattern can happen only within individual, due to personal choice.
Local habits are controlled by local elders, majority of them sticking to old perspectives in exercising their influence. The pressure they put on preparing younger generation is often bigger than necessary and requires sticking to rules, that weaken our surviving chances. They have right to do so, therefore protecting self from destructive patterns of own family roots disqualifies revolution. Only a new pattern will be effective, because recreating the old pattern with highlighting new values already proved not to be enough. If the strongest old culture will survive the present crisis, lacking new scheme, it will be able only to repeat the same mistake. Ruling generation of revolutionists is as narrow minded, when it comes to protecting power, as monarchy. Replacing revolution with evolution is the only way the nature works. Totalitarian, like the law of gravity. The challenge is tough. Inventing the evolution, the new model of power, capable to lead global community, that exist in harmony with inhabited planet.
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