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Many humans have been
exploited and many lives wasted. The age
of the machines has arrived and the machine-mind is responsible for a lot of
the damage we’ve done to each other. We’ve
even turned animals into machines, so that we can have them producing goods for
us. From the confines of their cages and
concrete pens, things couldn’t be worse for them. We don't care.
Our empathy levels are nowhere near as expanded as our intellectual
powers.
But perhaps the tide is
turning, things are changing, maybe because we can now see many ways of
repairing both our attitudes and our bad habits, all at the same time. Repairs are possible. Reaching for the stars is possible. No one can deny the possibility of
repair. So many situations cry out for
repair, and each time we address the need for repair, we first have to ask how
we're going to go about it. We can't
progress unless we get to know how to bring it about. By working on repair-answers, we work from ideas,
and then have to work out how to implement those ideas. That's the nature of repair. But how do we keep it up? The motive for
repair is like reaching for the stars. Progress
is dependant on motivation, and that's not straight forward. Human nature is so deeply set that we often
think it can't change. We CAN change our own natures, we can repair on a personal
level. But why change when other don't?
And so we return to the reason why we don't change solo, because we believe that
we can't change our collective nature. But if we could, if we were to be convinced
that collective consciousness were shifting in the right direction, just
imagine how optimism would set in. And wouldn't we find the rewards
incalculable?
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