Is humanity has forgotten his dreams?Have we lost the illusion as a species?Is he dead our fascination with the collective project we represent?Many times it feels so effectively.It seems as if humans had fallen prey to a certain feeling of weariness and disappointment.Almost as if we were sick of ourselves.A mental state that ultimately can be extremely dangerous, because we can lead to a state of total apathy ... or something even worse.
A joint projectLike it or not, we are all part of this collective project we call humanity and something that consciously or unconsciously all of us.For example, when the first man walked on the moon, all walk on the moon with it.Nobody thought "Bah, there's a guy that I know of nothing that has come to the moon ..."The widespread outcry was "We have reached the moon!", Though each in his personal life, was far from being an astronaut and feel part of that feat did not have any logical sense.
We can always discuss the need for countries, borders, religions, or all lines and mental walls that divide us into imaginary groups and we can discuss as much as we want about the urgent need to delete all these fictitious walls of our mind; but no one can argue the sense of belonging to the human community that we all hold within ourselves and makes us responsible and participants, each of us, of all the achievements and failures of all groups, even though we consider ourselves free and independent individuals.It is something we deeply rooted in unconscious level.This natural sense of belonging to humanity is what justifies speaking of a Ueno s collective or a common illusion as members of the human species.
And is that as humanity, it is undeniable that in the past have lived moments of great excitement and enthusiasm, dreams of conquest and exploration of the world around us.The XV, XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries witnessed the Western enthusiasm for the discovery of new territories and travel to the ends of the unexplored land, albeit with exploitative intentions and criminals.
The nineteenth century witnessed our blind hope in the possibilities of technology and science. We believed we could conquer nature and would come to unravel the secrets of the universe with our reasoning.Even in this last century, we witnessed one of the greatest moments of collective illusion: the dream of the conquest of space, the result of the space race between the US and the USSR, which led to the first man on the Moon.
It is a need that is part of the essence of the human being: treading uncharted lands where no one else has been, see things no one else has seen before, discover what lies beyond ...Often this obsession has no practical sense and is linked to self-centeredness of some individuals and their desire for notoriety, but what is undeniable is that basically, human beings can not help it: we all have inside more or lesser extent.An integral part of who we are, just as it is our need to create artistic works or to understand the how and why of everything around us.But this so our momentum, growing linked to our most essential dreams, seems to be waning.Right now, when we have more knowledge and better tools and capabilities available to us when we are able to achieve the most difficult goals, when more money is invested in research and when major scientific discoveries are made in all fields ... right now, it is when that childlike enthusiasm that drives everything seems to fade ...It is as if he were a flame quenching in the human psyche, the collective level.There is a sentence of the second man on the moon, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, which defines very well the feeling of disappointment to which we refer ..."You promised me colonies on Mars and instead, I have Facebook"
This phrase is highly significant, because it speaks very clearly the lethargy of our greatest collective dreams and illusions.Obviously, the phrase can be literally interpreted as a sign of personal disappointment by Buzz Aldrin, astronaut and immersed in the space race scientist.And obviously we can also circumscribe the strange process of stagnation which humanity as a whole in recent decades and could associate, with little room for doubt, the interests of the major financial powers, being owners mineral and petroleum resources have slowed as much as they have been the technical and scientific advancement of humanity, in order to temporarily extend its turnover and thus have margin enough to concentrate maximum power in their hands time with To insure a dominant position in the next technological paradigm, political, social and evolutionary (a leap forward that we started out very clearly the current economic crisis).But mostly this is so, Buzz Aldrin phrase reflects something much more disturbing: our mental state as a species; a state of apathy and indifference that contains within it the seeds of our own destruction ...2 PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS KEYThere are 2 factors that have contributed greatly to humanity reaches this dangerous mental state: information overload and excess preconceived fantasies.Information saturationOne of the major problems of men today is that we have lost our sense of wonder.It seems that people are no longer able to feel a lasting fascination with anything; there is nothing to be surprised or moves us for too long.And that's mainly due to the saturation of information that we suffer in today's society.As stated in our article WHY NOT EXPLODE A REVOLUTION , we are subjected to such incessant bombardment of information, notice or discovery by striking it comes to bite us.Any hint of awe we feel about something is like "oooh" of admiration we release before a firework: lasts exactly until the next rocket explodes and a new figure of bright colors in the sky makes us forget the previous one.
That castrates our ability to marvel at the extraordinary.And if we are not able to feel a real and lasting astonishment at the exceptional, we will not be able to generate a lasting feeling of fascination for nothing and that fascination, we will not generate dreams and illusions that result in strong collective aspirations.That sense of wonder is an expression of infant spark in all of us in the depths.Without it we lose touch with the best of our essence as human beings and become a mere biological machine whose sole function is to consume resources to extinction.That explains much of that feeling of boredom, indifference and widespread apathy that currently affects us as human beings.
Excess preconceived fantasiesAnother key factor is that our daily contains an industrial rations fantasy "precooked".A paradigmatic example of this is the game in which children have nothing to imagine, because all the work has already been done by the creators of the game.
So, not only are we subjected to a constant barrage of information that stuns us completely, but not our mind has neither the time nor the need to develop new alternative realities, or to generate own fantasies.It seems that in our world all the songs have been composed, all books have already been written and all alternative worlds have been imagined and we can only plunge into an infinite loop in which the old are remakes, over and over time, with subsequent updates and revisions of each period; a process that begins with the older model car, passing the old record hits and ends in old movies fantasy genre converted remakes.If someday we have flying cars, no one doubts that among them will be a new model Volkswagen Beetle, the Mini Cooper or Ford Fiesta.This inability to generate truly new elements, certainly contributes to fuel a feeling of indifference and boredom deep to often we fail to be fully aware.But this incessant bombardment precooked fantasies has a second even more devastating than anyone seems to realize effect.It is thanks to the ubiquitous fantasy film and TV, have already traveled to the far reaches of the universe and we did a perfect framing, with high resolution and surround sound.
Our mind and our eyes are already accustomed to cross wormholes, travel to the future and the past, sail the cosmos with huge starships, space monsters fight or see giant robots wandering our streets.All with much clearer and motivating that we can offer images of reality itself, that dirty, disillusioned and full of blurry and unfocused pictures place where no handsome astronauts who look like Val Kilmer or Carrie-Anne Moss.
Therefore, when we see a probe landing on a comet gives us a complete and utter indifference, in the same way that no one wakes up the slightest admiration see a buggy with a ridiculous goofy robotic arm pacing Mars and taking pictures of stones , though it be a historic achievement.
For a scheduled through epic visual spectacles, assemblies infarction and thunderous music, mind reality becomes a very sad place: we know that in inert planets around us just find ugly rocks and poisonous gases and that makes us weary and were supremely bored.This is the effect that has had on our minds information overload and fanciful thought by others.The gaping children open their eyes wide to see an astronaut suit, as in the 50s are over.
Six decades ago, there was a huge gap between everyday reality and fantasy a child who might find in a science fiction story or a comic. For that reason, simply reading a fantasy book could even alter a child's dreams, so much to shape their future life forever. Sometimes a single image or a simple drawing were like a seed planted in fertile soil that grew into a living dream.
Science faculties were filled with older children who longed so shameful meet his childhood dreams, inoculated for some of these works of fiction that had fired his mind to distant realities.Today it is much more difficult.Dreams and fantasies are not steeped in the minds of children, they are fast moving consumer goods that the kids are reflected in external displays.The fantasy no longer lives within their minds, but outside them and connects or off by pressing a button.That may seem an anecdote represents an irreparable loss for all mankind and may mark the beginning of our decline ...
2 CHILDREN'S WORLDAll humans carry within us a dreamer and mischievous child.Everyone, regardless of our external personality.Part of our very essence as human beings.It's that kind of child who climbs trees, which can not avoid throwing stones into the water and runs across the meadows with open arms like an airplane.
It's the kind of kid that when he sees a rock, however high it is, try to climb to see the world from above. The child becomes a stick into a sword and seeing a cave, she delves into overcoming their fears, hoping to face an imaginary dragon that snatch a great treasure.
For centuries, mankind has been like this child able to turn their filthy rags in shining armor with just a snap of his fingers.But we have now become something very different.
Now, we are like an obese child and spoiled, surrounded by thousands of new toys. Every second we see a new and glittering toy before our eyes, to the point that we no longer know or where to put. We are tired and bored with so many toys we have and when our parents detect our weariness, their only solution is to give us a new remote control car, hoping that this illusion shine again in our eyes. But no use, we have 100 like that and in the end we all look the same.That's when desperate scream "I aburroooo!" And this is where we angry dad blurts "How did you get bored if you have all the toys of the world?". And that brings us a deep bewilderment, because we know what happens to us. We believe we have everything you could wish for because we have millions of toys, but we do not realize that what is really essential when playing are not toys themselves, but our ability to dream.
So is humanity right now ... and that's a very dangerous dangerous situation.Because that both obese child is bored, sooner or later will realize that hates his toys ... and begin to feel that the only thing that causes emotion is breaking and burning, as identified by its surfeit. It ignite castles toy remote control cars crash into walls, tear their heads to dolls and viciously destripará their teddy bears.And in our real world and begin to show symptoms of this inner desire as shameful, something that is reflected in our own fantasy.There is a growing feeling of attraction and morbid fascination with the destruction of civilization.
We are fascinated more movies where our civilization is destroyed and annihilated that fantasy about our future technological achievements.Nobody is interested in ships and stories that explore interstellar space for the greater glory of the human species.We asteroid approaching Earth, zombie epidemic ravaging the world or post apocalyptic scenarios aboquen us to start from scratch, even armed with bows and arrows.
The eagerly consume.Perhaps no one will accept it, but there are a growing number of people who want a total reset of the world. Something like an apocalypse that allows us back to square one again. There is a morbid desire to do so, almost an existential necessity, because more and more people who feel intimately that humans are a cancer and that our civilization has no cure.And no, we're talking about powerful elites who occupy the highest echelons of power: that desire is sensed scattered by all strata of society, but often people who want it are not fully aware of it.
And that is the result of our deep disgust.We are tired of the world that we have built and see what we have become.We are tired of ourselves.Few people want to admit it, but these feelings are there, hidden in the depths of our minds, like a subtle but incessant buzz that we all share a subconscious level.Maybe you do not feel that you are very happy or re-packed / a hope, but if you listen closely you perceive, there at the bottom, where our basements communicate.It is a common buzz for everyone.What effect can have on human civilization that so many minds unconsciously wish morbidly everything runs to start again?No positive effect, no doubt ...And is that just us hate our present, the problem would be easily solved.One would have to cling to the collective dream of our future and fight for us with him as the only hope to save our present and our species.But at this point, we lack this exciting project as a species and that is the great danger that can lead to self-destruction.For what is our big dream as a species today?When we look to the future of humanity, what idea excites us?Do I get to have a world full of robots servants who do everything for us?Live with the brain connected to a virtual world in true Matrix style where everyone is super heroes?Introducing performance colonies off the ground for multinationals to exploit the mineral resources of other planets and the rich can go on vacation to be Saturn with rings selfies background?Or Perhaps the dream is carrying a chip inserted into the brain to record our orgasms to exchange them with friends for whatsapp?
Yes, We Have Discussed here are just cartoons ... but Have much to do With The reality That we are selling.That we are obese and bored child, now only plays with His lighter and is increasingly fascinated That With The flame emerges ... and the only thing They can think of to get us out of boredom offer are new toys ...It is evident That mankind needs a new dream and a new illusion.A large shared project, Which is worth living and fighting.Something That Makes Sense, a deep sense That connect with our essence and produces fascination and emotion we just think about it.And Because It is not something beautiful or Because They say so be very poetic.Because at the moment But, creating a common dream is a first level priority.We will head on it ...
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