Ascending into the future
“Hey what’s up??”
“Hmmmm……I have been very busy!!! Just completed my new invention of a device called RoboTrap..!!! It is what the mankind has desired since the time it came into being.”
‘Oh!! That sounds great!! What is it exactly??’
“Ahh! It’s a slave…a mechanical slave. It will do all kinds of work for man. It will be an All-In-One Robot. It will fly in the air, swim in water, run on roads. It will be your desktop, your laptop or even your mobile phone. It will change its shape, size and function to take the form of any device you want.”
‘That’s unbelievable!!!’
This is where mankind has reached today. Its intelligence is mind-boggling. Its mind has reached places where even GOD will hesitate to go at first. Today, mankind has extracted maximum use of every resource that nature has bestowed upon it. The human mind has aggressively leaped for innovations in the last hundred years. From industrial revolution to technological revolution, man has come a long way and it surely deserves the crown of the most intelligent animal on planet Earth. People say that the golden (or rather platinum) age of mankind has come and the day is not far when a miracle will happen which will convert every sorrow into joy, all hatred into love and bring peace and harmony in the lives of humans.
But, let us wait here and think if it is all that simple. No, it is not! Go back to see what we have done, and we find that we have become what we never wanted to become. Take a look at our souls, and we find that our tomorrow is not going to be the same as we have dreamt it to be. All that is there in the future is--- you and me locked up and in the grip of pain!
Our gradual disconnection from nature and its other life forms is the main cause of all our miseries and sufferings. The early man lived closest to Mother Nature and other life forms. He lived a superior life compared to all of us. He was structurally simple. He had some invisible connection with nature. Then came the era of kings and kingdoms when the humans were just fighting with each other to gain more and more power. This era of human beings had weaker connections with nature, but they still evolved with other forms of nature - plants and animals. Further evolving, human beings started extracting resources in the form of minerals. The miner had even weaker connections with nature. The human now became structurally more complex and started calling himself ‘intelligent’. This trend of losing connections and increasing intelligence continued with the evolution of ‘industrial human’ to ‘technological human.’ This human has the most complex structure. It processes information at tremendous rates. This technological human is the one who exists today.
Well one question you might ask me now is that what the next evolution of human will be like?
Well to put it succinctly, I don’t know! Actually no one knows! We may grow a long index finger to support our growing fascination with clicking the computer mouse. We may get up the next morning and see our feet replaced with wheels. This ‘technological human’ has a fetish for travelling! Or, we may develop huge ears to listen to communication of others who are planning to attack against us. Ahh, this “technological human” is an increasingly paranoid man, with the threat of terrorism, it is!
We are perhaps the most intelligent humans who ever existed on planet Earth. But, why are we then unable to process the reality that exists today? Why is it that Mother Nature seems most upset with this technological human? Why is it that this human’s intelligence fails to understand that something very fundamental is going wrong?
Well the answer is simple! This technological human seems to have the weakest link between itself and nature. It has evolved faster than other life forms. It has disconnected itself from nature and other forms of life and perhaps it does not feel itself to be the part of the natural world. What could be more depressing than to abandon your Mother in whose bosoms you have grown up?
If we have progressed too much, it does not mean that we are at the pinnacle of human civilization. This progress might be an illusion which all of us are unable to notice today. This intelligence might be a misleading reality which is driving us in a direction away from the real purpose of our lives. This complex structure might be making it more difficult for our brain to understand the real meaning of being human. The ‘growth’ that we are valuing today might be totally opposite to what the purpose of mankind is. I am not sure what the real purpose of mankind is but I am sure what mankind is achieving today is definitely not the real purpose. Well, if this intelligence and growth were real, then why do we have hatred and animosity in every mind? Why do we have people dying from hunger? Why do we have terrorists? Why do we have crime? Why do we discriminate amongst our brothers? Why do we enjoy the failure of others? Why don’t we care about our future generations? Why don’t we care for our mother nature?
If I continue with this hypothetical evolution process where humans are consistently losing connection with nature, I will have to say that since the last few decades a new generation of human has developed that probably has tried to regain its lost connection with nature and other forms of life. This is clearly visible from the actions of the leaders of all nations (although they never seem to reach any agreement, but at least these poor fellows are trying), which suggests that humans are keen to find its connection with the planet. It has started to decipher the signal that nature has been sending since ages. But the task is huge. Each one of us needs to ask the question – is this the society that we would want our children to live in?
We are currently in a critical phase of human evolution and if we do not take adequate steps for re-connecting with nature, our future generations will have to face the consequences. But, if we start working today, we can certainly hope for a generation that will look for peaceful solutions, relieve hunger and poverty, and use renewable energy. It is hard to accept that we really are doing something wrong, that we need to re-connect with nature, but, it will be a lot easier to accept if we understand that the FUTURE is already bearing down upon us and we are running short of time!
And you might again ask which “FUTURE” am I referring to and what does it hold for us. Well, that is a question for the entire world. Don’t ring me, phone the president of United States! All I can tell you about future is that you will soon have the chance to see it because (surprise!) it is just around the corner, lurking there in the shadows, waiting with its hand out-stretched, asking for a spare CHANGE!
Will you give any? Only the “FUTURE” knows!
“Hey what’s up??”
“Hmmmm……I have been very busy!!! Just completed my new invention of a device called RoboTrap..!!! It is what the mankind has desired since the time it came into being.”
‘Oh!! That sounds great!! What is it exactly??’
“Ahh! It’s a slave…a mechanical slave. It will do all kinds of work for man. It will be an All-In-One Robot. It will fly in the air, swim in water, run on roads. It will be your desktop, your laptop or even your mobile phone. It will change its shape, size and function to take the form of any device you want.”
‘That’s unbelievable!!!’
This is where mankind has reached today. Its intelligence is mind-boggling. Its mind has reached places where even GOD will hesitate to go at first. Today, mankind has extracted maximum use of every resource that nature has bestowed upon it. The human mind has aggressively leaped for innovations in the last hundred years. From industrial revolution to technological revolution, man has come a long way and it surely deserves the crown of the most intelligent animal on planet Earth. People say that the golden (or rather platinum) age of mankind has come and the day is not far when a miracle will happen which will convert every sorrow into joy, all hatred into love and bring peace and harmony in the lives of humans.
But, let us wait here and think if it is all that simple. No, it is not! Go back to see what we have done, and we find that we have become what we never wanted to become. Take a look at our souls, and we find that our tomorrow is not going to be the same as we have dreamt it to be. All that is there in the future is--- you and me locked up and in the grip of pain!
Our gradual disconnection from nature and its other life forms is the main cause of all our miseries and sufferings. The early man lived closest to Mother Nature and other life forms. He lived a superior life compared to all of us. He was structurally simple. He had some invisible connection with nature. Then came the era of kings and kingdoms when the humans were just fighting with each other to gain more and more power. This era of human beings had weaker connections with nature, but they still evolved with other forms of nature - plants and animals. Further evolving, human beings started extracting resources in the form of minerals. The miner had even weaker connections with nature. The human now became structurally more complex and started calling himself ‘intelligent’. This trend of losing connections and increasing intelligence continued with the evolution of ‘industrial human’ to ‘technological human.’ This human has the most complex structure. It processes information at tremendous rates. This technological human is the one who exists today.
Well one question you might ask me now is that what the next evolution of human will be like?
Well to put it succinctly, I don’t know! Actually no one knows! We may grow a long index finger to support our growing fascination with clicking the computer mouse. We may get up the next morning and see our feet replaced with wheels. This ‘technological human’ has a fetish for travelling! Or, we may develop huge ears to listen to communication of others who are planning to attack against us. Ahh, this “technological human” is an increasingly paranoid man, with the threat of terrorism, it is!
We are perhaps the most intelligent humans who ever existed on planet Earth. But, why are we then unable to process the reality that exists today? Why is it that Mother Nature seems most upset with this technological human? Why is it that this human’s intelligence fails to understand that something very fundamental is going wrong?
Well the answer is simple! This technological human seems to have the weakest link between itself and nature. It has evolved faster than other life forms. It has disconnected itself from nature and other forms of life and perhaps it does not feel itself to be the part of the natural world. What could be more depressing than to abandon your Mother in whose bosoms you have grown up?
If we have progressed too much, it does not mean that we are at the pinnacle of human civilization. This progress might be an illusion which all of us are unable to notice today. This intelligence might be a misleading reality which is driving us in a direction away from the real purpose of our lives. This complex structure might be making it more difficult for our brain to understand the real meaning of being human. The ‘growth’ that we are valuing today might be totally opposite to what the purpose of mankind is. I am not sure what the real purpose of mankind is but I am sure what mankind is achieving today is definitely not the real purpose. Well, if this intelligence and growth were real, then why do we have hatred and animosity in every mind? Why do we have people dying from hunger? Why do we have terrorists? Why do we have crime? Why do we discriminate amongst our brothers? Why do we enjoy the failure of others? Why don’t we care about our future generations? Why don’t we care for our mother nature?
If I continue with this hypothetical evolution process where humans are consistently losing connection with nature, I will have to say that since the last few decades a new generation of human has developed that probably has tried to regain its lost connection with nature and other forms of life. This is clearly visible from the actions of the leaders of all nations (although they never seem to reach any agreement, but at least these poor fellows are trying), which suggests that humans are keen to find its connection with the planet. It has started to decipher the signal that nature has been sending since ages. But the task is huge. Each one of us needs to ask the question – is this the society that we would want our children to live in?
We are currently in a critical phase of human evolution and if we do not take adequate steps for re-connecting with nature, our future generations will have to face the consequences. But, if we start working today, we can certainly hope for a generation that will look for peaceful solutions, relieve hunger and poverty, and use renewable energy. It is hard to accept that we really are doing something wrong, that we need to re-connect with nature, but, it will be a lot easier to accept if we understand that the FUTURE is already bearing down upon us and we are running short of time!
And you might again ask which “FUTURE” am I referring to and what does it hold for us. Well, that is a question for the entire world. Don’t ring me, phone the president of United States! All I can tell you about future is that you will soon have the chance to see it because (surprise!) it is just around the corner, lurking there in the shadows, waiting with its hand out-stretched, asking for a spare CHANGE!
Will you give any? Only the “FUTURE” knows!