By John Tischer
It sped up at the turn of the Twentieth Century.
Einstein’s work made Newtonian physics
obsolete…science started to be on shaky ground.
Art gradually broke down the norms of the way
people saw the world.
Information distribution became constantly more
rapid and widespread.
The algorithm continually sped up, until
machines were created (computers) that could
speed it up faster than humans could do
by themselves.
“We’re entering the fifth dimension.”
“We’re entering a new age.”
“You know that something’s happening
here, but you don’t know what it is.”
Advances in science that have made life
better happened alongside weaponry
advances that killed humans better.
On the whole, the algorithm hasn’t made
people smarter or less self destructive.
Musk is a hero (ideal) that wants to colonize
Mars when we haven’t figure out how to
manage the earth properly…that’s the ape
overreaching…not evolution.
It’s not evolution.
It’s blind survival instinct that will build
a bigger bomb if it thinks that will help it
live longer.
It’s no more evolved than an amoeba.
Christ was evolved because he taught
compassion, something that the people
of that part of the world, that time in
history, might never have heard of.
They weren’t ready for him.
He scared them so they killed him.
Buddha was evolved and he taught
others the means to self evolve.
He said, back then, that by the time
we are in now, it would be very hard
to even hear, let alone understand, his
teachings. He said this time would be
the beginning of the Dark Age.
“Wisdom gap”: “the widening disparity
between humanity’s rapidly advancing
technological power, and humanity’s
lagging ability to use that power wisely.”
(A.I.)
So fascinating, all these gadgets,
all these possibilities, the shiny objects
posing as reality that distract us from
what’s really going on, the mirror we
can’t help but eventually trip over.
Courtesy of John Tischer, Mexico/USA
