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