America’s great turning point
Question from the Internet:
“Without casting blame and purely as an observation, can we agree that something has definitely changed in the US in the last 5 or 10 years? What has changed in your opinion?”
The changes have been brewing much longer, and they have definitely nothing to do with partisanship, political parties, with the personalities of the Presidents.
There is nobody to blame as everything that happened so far has been the result of a blind, instinctive development without any free choice. And without free choice there is nobody to blame.
Human history so far has been the chronicle of the ever growing, insatiable, self-serving, self-justifying Human ego. This put into motion the helplessly recurring, vicious historic cycles.
Without this driving force humans would be exactly the same as other highly developed primates, basically remaining unchanged for millions of years.
Compared to those primates - we share almost identical DNA with, we started from exactly the same root, from the same Natural environment, from within exactly the same conditions - Humans developed into an extraordinary species, building civilizations, trying to conquer space, probing black holes, faraway galaxies, pondering about the meaning, origin of life.
America represents the peak of the egotistic Human development, a country, nation that was build purely on the unlimited, unrestricted, free fullfilment of the instable desire for selfish pleasures, explorations, inventions.
The American Dream was about the boundless exploitation, exploration, conquest of the world for personal profit, wealth, control.
Initially, honestly the American Dream promised equality, based on the false assumption that resources, markets, opportunities are unlimited thus anybody with honest, hard work can succeed.
Of course this couldn’t work, since we live in a closed, finite, fully integrated and interdependent Natural system whose laws are also obligatory for us.
So instead of the free, equal opportunities America promised, the reckless exploitation distorted into a “giant Ponzi scheme”, a pyramid where those in top - the most egotistic of all of us - would grab and cement power, control and exploit the others.
Thus America reestablished the same aristocracy based on wealth and control the original founders run away from in Europe.
What we have been watching in the last few decades is the inevitable end-game, how our civilization - based on, lead by the American example after Europe already exhausted itself and became passive bystander - has become self-consuming, self-destructive, as this reckless, selfish, exploitative, individualistic lifestyle is unsustainable in a Natural system that is governed by strict, “iron laws” we can’t appeal against, bribe.
Thus we are stumbling from crisis to crisis and we are projected to repeat the tragic events of the 1930s, 1940s in our days.
So what happens next depends on how many people recognize this flow of events, how many people feel the urgent need to snap out of the instinctive partisanship, from the discriminating, mutually inciting reactions, out of the need to control, exploit others for personal gain.
We all - not only Americans - need a unique, purposeful and highly practical educational method that can teach us how to exist, behave above, against our inherently egotistic, selfish nature/program.
Only then will we be able to build the crucially important, mutually responsible and mutually complement connections or survival depends on - above the vast differences and diversity that can’t be suppressed or erased.