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I don't know.
That is REALLY scary.
We were thinking about that too, and it doesn't look good. Because the way of life we have built, the massive massive infrastructure, may not be appropriate to anything else.
Just structurally, inherently unchangeable.
Jeez.....
It points to some obvious BAD possibilities that may happen, but we couldn't even IMAGINE any good ones.
THAT, was scary.
It may just fall apart in some very serious and surprisingly unsocial ways. Perhaps even chaos. Of a type that will really scare the hell out of people; also as they discover they can't deny the truth of what is being said.....
It could end violently.
Transition almost stretches credibility the way the system has become so large and motionless.
It could spawn a great religion. Sometimes religions happen historically replacing other religions, and sometimes they occur when the time is ripe. When the people need them. When the social structure demands them.
An unusual or sort of unexpected possibility is that there may be a great cultural or religious figure born or created.
Weird, isn't it?
The same with a school of thought or religion. Or simply ethics, or large disenfranchisement.
My spouse, being a teacher of sixth and seventh and eighth graders in a school that is way above average in terms of social "familyness", has never seen so many depressed children. Growing all the time.
"All my friends are depressed," she says. I certainly know many who are completely freaked out. I mean depressed, nihilistic, angry.
On perhaps a somewhat related front, I asked my dad if he had noticed this. That "life" seemed to be getting better when I was young, and that now it seems futile and stale. Incredibly, to me, he agreed. We teneded to set the time for the end of expansion at the transition from 1960's world into 1970's world. a world we're still essentially living in.
Coincidentally (?) also the end of the tune in drop out anti-material era, perhaps the last large social movement in this country.
I can't fairly gauge this by my self, as I have had serious depression set in eight or so years ago, maybe ten, but its cause seemed mostly medical to me. But I sure as hell know what it's like, how hard it is to reverse, and that it never erases completely. If we fall into social depression, jeez, that is going to be a real BITCH to fix, and it's here, folks. Time to look around.
It may look invisible. It may not.
It is very hard to take care of yourself in this society. It requires a lot, and you can never stop working for it (for what?) and if you let the balls drop you will literally die, it seems. Or you will fall so far you will lose all mental reflections of dignity. This is mental illness, this vulnerability; and it is being enforced by the environment we've created.
Because moment to moment happiness is not created by much of the daily life/work in this society, or by the internal psychological mechanisms of individuals, the perception and experience of futility becomes obvious.
This is a very strange time in our culture. Potentially dangerous, potentially elevating. It's difficult to imagine, though, how we're going to get through it, and what will result.
I don't know if "people" recognize it yet, but it has to be coming together in a massive recognition. Is it being written about? I don't know of any "popular terminology." So I know its recognition is still young.
It's a pretty big mess, doggone it.
Ten years ago, before I got personally depressed, (which was quite a shock), I remember spending some time in MY GARDEN thinking about how this society was moving toward mental imprisonments or conditions that mimic other societies when the seeds for revolution or religion are sown. I had forgotten all about it, and yet here we are, and the systems have grown. The structure has bred.
Of course it's one of those awful things where thinking about it is depressing. Thinking that we have built all this and haven't built people. All this infrastructure, rejecting its people. But if we don't think about it, I'm afraid, it's going to explode in some way. Could. Might. Something, certainly, will happen.
Gives me the willies.
There are no obvious answers to give people, and that is going to become undeniable, very soon.
JMO. |
