Where are we heading?

Take a week off. As you enjoy your leisure by the beach or hills or meadow, governments are changed, companies are sold, bought, started or bankrupt, new laws are passed, advancements in technology are made, billions of people learn new things, achieve things, records broken, new buildings appear, trees are cut, your stocks shock you and much more. Every second, something new is invented, which can change the way you live. We spend close to 1/3rd of our lives trying to learn how to live the rest 2/3rds. The world is changing fast, are you up for it?


Whether we like it or not, we are part of the change. Although we may wonder if we are living it right, given the conflicting interests in morality, religious beliefs, social and economic influence, if we miraculously happen to reach a consensus, the world would have changed enough by then to invalidate the verdict. Which brings us to the most pertinent question, where are we heading?


In an attempt to find the answer and to predict the future, the easiest approach would be to formulate a patten of our history and extrapolate it. This equation may seem convincing, but if you look carefully, you will find a huge void. Its called the present. Every change happening right now, will lead us to a different future. Which makes it impossible to predict the future accurately. But the good news is, if we can match the pattern of our history to the basic needs of humans which have remained the same throughout evolution, we may be able to come up with a rough idea of where we are heading.


As I was contemplating on several possibilities, I realized that it was the need for comfort that led to developments in civilization. Even more developments were done as a necessity to handle the basic developments. The highest point of comfort is probably the comfort for the mind. We are born with a lot of enthusiasm, curiosity, anxiety etc which fades out towards the end of out lives for most people. We learn to control them. Realization through life lived abandons the petty feelings we are born with. We may continue our current development for years, but the more we move forward, the more people would fall back to the idea enjoying the bliss of a simple life.   


We could use science to create an artificial world to full fill the needs of every person, but can you hear something telling you that such a life will not be accepted by everyone? I am told that people with the highest of intellects achieve a realization which cannot be explained by terms known to us till date. Such people are then only ones I hear who have no desire for anything more than what they already have. This sounds like the best answer to the question we are looking for. Of course, the truth in such a realization is accepted sometimes on the basis of a very thin fundamental reasoning: If they are smarter than us, they must be right. 


We will have to live backwards until we find the simplest physical form of living. The only difference though would be that of the intellect. We were there but we didn't know. We will be there again, but this time, we will know. This will perhaps be the peak of our civilization and will remain dormant until doomsday. Unfortunately, nobody has yet formulated a process to be followed by a common man to attain that realization. Even if we did form it, the challenges to implement that world wide to people across all ages, origins, beliefs, interests and culture are plenty. Perhaps that is a discussion for another day. But for now, let us bank on our enemy, Mr. Time, to teach us that.


Bcozazedzo