The contention that we are born “sinful”, and only by signing up to a particular belief system can we achieve the redemption we need to gain happiness, has resulted in an environment in which vast swathes of the population of this planet are struggling with a low self esteem that is both contrived and unnecessary.
Falling congregations around the globe are evidence to the fact that people are no longer accepting this traditional dogma. The inability of traditional religious beliefs to evolve, along with all other aspects of human activity, means they are being left behind as fear based power fails the test of time.
A few of the “knock on” effects of our relationship with power:
Health, Food and Education – Science has made vast leaps forward in our medicinal and surgical skills. However there has been a shift in emphasis in our health care away from vocational caring to one of increasing profit based practice.
Shifting the primary objective of health care to one of making profit fundamentally changes our ability to effectively develop and maintain our health. Once again we are ceding a human endeavour to those that have an affinity with money, creating imbalance across our species as a whole.
What we are now experiencing are hospitals and places of recuperation placing patient’s lives at risk as cost takes precedence over care and hygiene. In addition the free market dominance dictates that those who cannot pay do not get. As prices increase less of us are able to achieve and maintain sound health, which some would construe as “survival of the fittest”.
Science describes evolution as survival of the fittest, and this can be seen in the grand scheme of things. The shark survives where the dinosaur does not, and somehow within this example we are aware of a vastness of criteria that must operate to distinguish between these two ferocious animals.
Financial survival somehow seems far more restrictive, confining this process to a very narrow band of human activity, involving a very small percentage in our species, and resulting in a somewhat synthetic environment that does not seem to breed a bigger/better/stronger/wiser/sleeker human being. Perhaps a return to health based objectives over profit may better achieve this task.
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