Growing up, I often thought about how people would have lived without the technology. How did the primitive people meet their needs and play? And as I thought about this question, I grew to envy the people who live in hunter gatherer communities working together in small groups because they would form close bonds with tribe members. Living in suburbia, going to school meant being surrounded by people who had other communities they belonged to other then the community we shared. There was little time to form close bonds. I even moved around every two or three years.
Not only did I envy the social wealth of primitive tribes, I also came to wish for their simplicity. They were concerned with providing food, shelter, safety and then making music and dancing. My dad worked as an economist, and was concerning himself with import, export, gross domestic product, and the connection between one economic measure against another.
We live in a world of billions of people each with a worldview of his own. What I'm about to say is my version of my worldview. I think the world would be a better place if everyone acknowledged that about each other at every waking moment. I see the world of humans as a fragile peace… There are passive aggression's going on daily, as we collide in our daily lives. Many different wars, internal and external, with different themes, and flavors of struggle. We encounter these struggles in our moment-to-moment existence.
The particular flavor of struggle that paints my world most often is the pull of a trans-human agenda, against nature's rhythm.
I think the majority of people would prefer a utopia, and could imagine a few common ways in which we could improve our current human condition. However we have inherited a civilization that was unconsciously created, not purposefully and conscientiously created. Our civilization came to be based on primitive instincts, instincts that have been left unchecked by reason and a rational mind and a moral, ethical mind.
I am uncertain as to the percentage of human beings that, if given a choice, would opt to live in an egalitarian society. Human nature has been shown to use power unethically when put into certain situations. I can deduce that those who have power, money, etc. would not choose to live necessarily in an egalitarian society, but that all others would choose to do so.
Because I have spent a great portion of my life envying primitive society, it's ironic to me that I have come to realize that we are at and remarkable time period In history, where egalitarian communities can be formed en mass and self government is more achievable. Resources are so wonderfully plentiful, though we are depleting them unnecessarily in stupid ways, in consumerist shallow ways and government strife is keeping resources from those who need it.
In just a little bit of time, I am hopeful that this new generation of technologists will rise up and create the egalitarian society that I have been craving, and return to the social wealth of the primitive tribe of hunters and gatherers. This struggle I see in my world is against the trans-human agenda to use up resources for the purpose of accumulating wealth at the expense of those in need of power and the necessities of life.
I am hoping it will shift with the connective capability of the Internet and the increasingly equal opportunities that the Internet can provide, and with the growth- oriented, morally conscious millennial generation. With the current administration and the 45th president, he who shall not be named, I have become an anarchist. Since democracy isn't really led by the people, and the powerful are the elite, the only option is anarchy. But it is possible and best to be an peaceful anarchist, using consensus decision making in small communities to self-govern. So that's my hope for true democracy run by people to emerge in the next fifty years.
