Tao, wil, Ciel...
OK, getting a little serious now. Yes wil, if this is all about anything these days, the increasingly disruptive tossing about of people, societies, and their beliefs, it is about what is flowing through us all in a relentless fashion. It is a set of universal energies in flux that are pushing us all towards changes that have been needed for some time, but which must, of necessity come slowly lest there be more and more chaotic episodes, more often.
One side of the human species equation says," no we must have predictability, reliability, stability, determinism at any cost, because anything else will lead to anarchy." My opinion is that these, what might otherwise be labeled fascist tendencies, are advocated most vehemently thru traditionally male-controlled, institutional frameworks of world governance, including some of the major religious institutions.
The other side are the more earth-bound , female oriented attitudes of embracing change as it comes and to make new ways of living and continuance by selecting the best of what is embedded in these energies and using that to power the engines of the future, which are the children. These voices say, "we must harmonize ourselves with what is natural and not artifice, for that is where we come from, and that is where we all must remain now and in the future, so rooted to guarantee our collective well-being. Now I realize that I am overly generalizing the basic conflict here, and there is considerable crossover everywhere, but this, IMHO, is the foundation. Men are from Mars and women are from Venus...if you will.
This is a very deep set of conflicting forces and realities which have always been there, and have always been organized and societally managed through systems of spiritual belief, whether in a community sense, or on a national, or planet-wide basis. In this era of profound scientific and technological change, we are still collectively trying to comprehend the scope of all of this and where we as individuals and communities fit into possible future scenarios.
Yes Tao...more fundamentlist and orthodox approaches are not embraceable by those seeking and willing to adapt realistically to these sets of changes. Yes Ciel...we all need more space to see and comprehend just what is really going on in order to find our individual and communal ways. And wil, I agree that existing beliefs have a foundational set of aspects that may enable them to pull these efforts into united approaches towards realistic solutions and plans. After all, if you go back far enough in time, one finds that ALL religions originated in the practices devised by us to observe nature and its changes.
But the problem here is that there is no sufficiently educated and effective leadership to help us to do so and cope with this great thing of global adaptability to massive change. And until there is, we are cursed to follow the ineffective meanderings of societal leadership that is collectively cursed with the "stupidity" of not really understanding the dynamics or nature of what is happening, and would rather avoid the issue by ignoring it and seeking avenues of false security, like accumulating greater riches and wealth and supposed security thru control over the lives and destinies of the less fortunate.
My two cents.
flow....
