Man, The Evolution Continues

Authored by: Richard Willard


The age of innocence is behind us.  The stars and heavens have been scouted, the body mapped and plotted.  The age of adventure is over.  What then can be man's future evolution?  In practical terms our ears will continue to get smaller due to the increased noise pollution we as humans are subject too.  Baby toes continue to shrink for the lack of practical need.(We don't grip tree limbs anymore).  But what really is our evolutionary future?  The time has come for the evolution of the human species to take on the prodigious effort of spiritual and consciousness expansion.  These grandiose terms are devoid of precise definitions, not only as individuals but in the collective as well.  How indeed can the indefinable be defined?

Perhaps it is best to issue the decree seldom uttered in today's techno algorithmic society, "it does not need to be defined".  The sad truth of evolution's equation we now face as a human species, is that a great deal of pain may be the necessary lever which sends us into our next evolutionary phase.  Pain it is said is the hammer of the God's to break the heart of stone.  We are an obdurate lot, not currently geared toward expansionist thinking but by necessity survivalist living.  Fear drives hoarding, hoarding drives wealth separation, wealth separation drives unrest, and the system called capitalism runs its inevitable course towards collapse.
A recent article in Counter Punch by Conn Hallinan  drives home this point in describing the current economic climate in China.
"What worries China’s leaders is that one of capitalism’s engines of self-destruction—economic injustice and inequality—is increasing.  According to Li Shu, an economist at Beijing Normal University, from 1988 to 2007, the average income of the top 12 percent went from 10 times the bottom 10 percent, to 23 times the bottom 10 percent. According to the Financial Times, it is estimated that China’s richest 1 percent control 40 to 60 percent of total household wealth.

Wealth disparity and economic injustice have fueled “incidents,” ranging from industrial strikes to riots by farmers over inadequate compensation for confiscated land. Endemic local corruption feeds much of the anger."  Sound familiar?  It should, a better description of the United States economy could not be found.

That collapse as mentioned above may be the very "pain" the very "lever" that starts the decline of our materialistic society and forces us by an economic meltdown to take the first step toward a deeper understanding of ourselves.  But what makes us learn this time?  We have had depressions in the past and heeded no warning going right back to the same system that caused the first downfall. Rome fell when Capitalism collapsed, the Greeks fell when Capitalism collapsed.  What then, will be different?

First and foremost is the thought which expresses the idea of a "world" wide economic meltdown. We are as described by the concept of the "world order" attached at the hip economically to the rest of the world in ways never before seen in the business or manufacturing models of countries. Thus when one falls all the dominoes fall in a succession of events that could bring entropy to the majority of economic and societal systems across the globe.  With today's technology this could happen at an impossible to imagine speed.  Bringing the collapse of banking and financial systems down overnight.  

Once a collapse has started, and the average man in the street, who, having been beat up economically for many decades smells the blood of bankers in the water you can be sure the sharks will come calling in the name of payback. That anarchy, and pandemonium could spread across the globe with lightening speed.  

As a result of this "uprising" we could quickly see the infrastructure necessary to bring power, water and food to the tables and homes of the world wide population become disabled.  The result more chaos, and perhaps we visit the concept of Thunderdome. (Post-apocalyptic battles between government forces and the power of man made chaos.) 

In the end, the time may come where the lawyer, banker, and Goldman Sachs of the world will see themselves in the same condition as the poor man in the street they use to turn away from. The model of separation by judgment, based on wealth, having been rent asunder in the breakdown, creates, through pain, a realization, where man sees all men on the same level. Collectively we bend down on shaking knees, and as a human species recognizing our potential demise, cry out to who or what is each persons God, and in that moment we begin the first steps towards a wider, deeper, and higher set of aspirations which guides our future consciousnesses to plumb the deeper meanings of who we are and why we are here.


Richard Willard