A turning point in human development

Question from the Internet:

“Does the considerable advancement of technology mean that humans have actually evolved?”

Our advancement in technology is part of our general, incredible human development which has been driven by the insatiable, irrepressible human ego until this point.

It is only this self-serving, self-justifying, individualistic ego that differentiates us from other animals, most notably from other developed primates. While these primates we have the same root with remained unchanged for millions of years, we reached the point of probing galaxies, trying to settle on other planets while building and destroying many different civilizations.

And our technological advancement has been part of this process.

The problem is that the same ego also made us behave like cancer in Nature’s fully integrated and interdependent system, as we do not know how to curb this insatiable desire for more, to change, to consume, to inadvertently destroy everything we touch.

Now, as we stand at the threshold of seemingly inevitable self-destruction we need to awaken another human uniqueness, our intellect capable of critical self-assessment, initiating self-change. With the help of this intellect, we can learn how to harness, channel the awesome power of the human ego towards positive, constructive, collective goals and purposes while remaining aligned with nature’s evolution, becoming compatible with Nature’s laws that sustain the balance and homeostasis life depends on.

We reached a turning point in our development like when childhood turns into adulthood, reckless, exponential growth turning to qualitative growth which is expressed in the mutual interconnections, cooperation between people. We have to repeat the same evolutionary revolution when single-cell organisms turned into multi-cellular organisms for the obvious evolutionary advantage.

But in our case, we have to achieve these turning points consciously, willingly, by our own efforts so we would “own” the changes and the recognition, attainment that comes with it!