Jul 26, 2021
We have become the tool of our tools
“What a piece of work is humanity. How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an Angel. In apprehension, how like a God! The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals.”
Written in 1600, at the beginning of the scientific, industrial and information revolutions, Hamlet’s words ring hollow now.
The worst outcome of these revolutions was the consumer revolution. We lost faith in ourselves and feel incomplete without the latest gee-gaw or doo-dad. From every side we are told we are empty and cannot stand alone.
Sadly, the digital revolution and consumer electronics have only amplified the noise and dampened the signal of meaning in our lives.
And now the bill has been presented; we have destroyed the world that gave us life.
But before giving up hope, check out the placement of our navel and our sexuality at the center of our being. Our navel connects us to all our ancestors back to the beginning. And with our sexuality we catapult life into the future. We exist at the crossroads of time and space. We should think and act with that awareness.
Intelligent design or random fluctuations? It doesn’t matter. It just is.
© 2021, Thomas Mahon
