Something went wrong somewhere

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How people in the 1970s imagined the 21st century:

What we actually got (the video was removed in the meantime, it was about two men wearing monster masks, playing a “game” where they whacked each other on the head with neoprene sticks):

6 thoughts on “Something went wrong somewhere”

  2. Human life, on one hand, is indeed very short, but considering the available options and the limitations of the material world, it makes no sense to last longer than it currently does. If the material world is given through the aging of the body, then there is no point in longer suffering the being and tormenting the mind and consciousness in such a prison.

    Technological advancement and the easing of life in the human body are not sufficient factors to influence the ultimate outcome of the human species. We have reached an interesting period technologically where AI tools are available to everyone, but the problem lies in the interests and motives of the people who have access to that potential. If one looks at the environment in which Buddhism arose and what kind of surroundings are favorable for an individual to start questioning existence or to look up to an extraordinary person, a role model, in their environment, then technological reach is not necessarily an advantage.

    People overestimate their opportunity to consume the material world to the irretrievable point when they begin to panic due to the helpless position they find themselves in.

    • I'm not sure that the choice to remain ignorant and preoccupy oneself with trivial nonsense while surrounded by knowledge and growth opportunities can be seen as a problem caused by the world. The same people would probably be some kind of a weed in the astral world.

      • Your responses are always useful because they position things clearly.

        If I ask myself whether a person should preoccupy themselves with solving problems, indulge in hedonism, or even worse, foolishness, the matter is clear.

        The ability to perceive a particular problem and the natural motivation to find a solution are visible mechanisms for the growth and health of every being. This includes all situations encountered by living beings in this material world; ultimately, all activity is direct action of the astral.

        However, there is one problem that I perceive as a superset of all problems. It concerns the relationship between awareness and the mind, habits, and the cycle of birth and death.

  3. I think that psyhology in school system has a lot to do with it..they are simply ruining education, giving stupid, lazy, and bad students more importance than they diserve..

    • I think the problem is deeper than that. You see, somewhere before the French revolution, the enlightenment propagandists formulated a thesis that people are all born equal, and the fact that most are stupid peasants is the fault of the ruling classes that kept them uneducated and enslaved. If only people were free and educated, they would all be like Isaac Newton, this ideology argued.

      And so, since this ideology was in power since then, it worked on shaping the world in its image, and what happened? Everybody is supposedly educated now. It's hard to find anyone who hasn't been in school for at least 12 years, and what is the result? The percentage of people with actual intellectual interests is similar to what it was in the "dark ages".

      Also, this egalitarianism assumes that, since all people are born equal, if they don't all succeed it's due to some kind of discrimination, which is basically what you do if your thesis has been disproved and you then invent reasons why that can't be because your thesis is "obviously true". Most of the madness I see in America and elsewhere in the West can be explained by this – all the goals of the "enlightenment" have been achieved, and the results are the exact opposite of what they predicted, so now they are becoming increasingly unhinged, trying to find some microscopic remnants of inequality, discrimination and oppression that are to be blamed for everything, which obviously isn't the case, but those people are so ideologically possessed that they are unable to hear this answer.

      On the other hand, you have the weirdest elitist groups like the WEF, that think they are the ones destined to save the world because they are the chosen ones, and the only way to save it is to introduce totalitarianism and kill almost everyone.

      Insanity seems to be the new normal.

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