I'm living off grid since a few years now and I find myself wondering with amazement: People living for rent in the city don't have to and mostly don't know how to provide for their food, water, electricity, shelter. The most essential things for survival are being taken care for them by external authorities ...
... This frees their time for doing other less basic, mostly mind-based activities and entertainment. We call that civilatory progress, division of labor. Yet, it also makes us numb, dull, dependant, drowned in a world of ideas, disconnected from nature which our existence depends on.
I was once such an unaware city dweller myself. And in my world of ideas, education and societal reward system, I thought I knew what was necessary to protect the environment and to live in a sustainable way. I knew nothing!
Now, in my view, real civilatory progress will be when most people know how to take care of their basic needs, and are highly aware of and grateful for who and what provides for their existence. Technology will be used to more easily take care of basic needs AND enhance the freedom and autonomy of the individual, not to create dependencies and to centralize power. Division of labor will be organized on a more communal level and in decentrally organized global networks. A deep revering connection with us as part of nature will be common sense.
Everything else is digression. The rapid technological progress of the last 200 years coupled with the centralization of powers was necessary for humankind to wake up to what freedom and responsibility really mean and for us to max out our human potential. Now onwards!
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