What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make - TopicsExpress

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each others shoulders and kicking each others teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation. And yet, you can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us- the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary- and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons. The culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines- meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue and Hollywood and what have you