The world has changed such a lot within my lifetime of seventy-odd years, values and life-styles are seeming to change overnight at an accelerating pace. The Ephemeral was the mark of ageless tradition and antiquity but today it is the mark of a drab and shameless culture. The industrial farming sweeping the world and the big industrial projects destroying the natural agricultural world and forest gardens of the worlds poorest peoples, who are also her oldest traditional societies is a shame. According to mythological sources the real power of Dionysius the great Greek god of the Spring, is not nature alone but the relationship between nature and man -- namely the magical force which teaches men the secrets of nature. In the early world mans greatest desire was to be trans formed into a divinity and discover the secret powers of nature. This led to the agricultural revolution and the start of an unprecedented phase of human evolution. Unfortunately some 3000 years later came another god which was industrial production which saw nature as a thing to be cannibalized and excreted in the form of an ecnomy through which the present generations are toiling to maintain themselves. Mankind has lost the old order of perfection which sprang from understanding the principles of nature and is mastering the secrets of cannibalism and devouring his fellow men and nature through the science of Capitalism. The ugly head of religious fundamentalism spreading its seeds throughout the world today is a danger in this volatile mix and the world of tomorrow is increasingly uncertain and I fear for the unborn generations. In Greek the concepts of mainomaie or reaching God and being able to be transformed into a God-like state was through the world of nature, the joining of man with nature. Unfortunately somewhere between the industrial revolution and the digital revolution man has lost his way and we are witnessing the building of Hell upon earth such as Adam Smith and Rene Descartes could never have envisioned.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 10:18:41 +0000
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