I read this thing that the world is creating more and more
material things in the pursuit of happiness because of the
ego, and our material consumption or whatever has developed
far quicker than our spiritual side which is causing the
problem. Until people realise they can only find happiness
in themselves and not in spending b=money and buying crap
and having sex and havong children to love them there will
always be a major problem.
Apparently, according to a man I know, there are people
having epiphany type things all over the world and
following a more spiritual path of life and when this
readhes a critical mass we'll all be okay.
In the next dimension everything will be fine we all just
have to figure out how to get there...
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999 14:03:27 -0800 (PST) Bob Burns
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> I was wondering when this list would get around to
> this topic! It's one of the bottom lines, I think,
> and to solve it well is to solve everything else too-
> a paradigm shift indeed. Some of you may know that I
> lived and worked in Bangladesh three years ('85-'88)
> in agriculture. When I went there I had never seen a
> condom, much less had the occasion to use one. The
> joke was on me the day I asked where the little kids
> got all those small pink balloons I saw them playing
> with all the time! There's an object lesson there
> somewhere--like 'up yours', maybe? I read the
> article about Bangladesh listed in one response and
> some of it's pretty right on; but still---the place is
> smaller than Georgia and there are something like 120
> million people in it- half the USA! At least in the
> 80's this was increasing by 3 million- the size of an
> Atlanta, every year. In the main rice season, 75% of
> the land area is growing rice, and they eat it all and
> import more (aside from the fact that the people, and
> everything else that can't sleep in a rice paddy, have
> only thge remaining 25% to occupy!) It really is
> true, I've been there. The only way to be alone there
> is to shut yourself in a room, if you can find one
> unoccupied- which usually takes money!
> It goes against every liberal feminist notion in
> me to imagine any government, much less a world
> government, mandating contraception; but the
> environmentalist in me is constrained to say wake up,
> folks, before Mother Earth does. Because when she
> does, she's gonna be pissed! She's crawling with us,
> like too many fleas! Industrious fleas at that. If
> we really believe in the Gaia theory and ecosystem
> dynamics and all, we need to apply it to ourselves.
> The conclusion I frightfully come to most of the time
> is that the planet will figure out a way, sooner or
> later, to relieve itself of a large percentage of us.
>
> If we do not come up with a solution to the population
> question, and with it the other matters of
> environmental abuse, nature will come up with one or
> more, and they will probably be gruesome.
> I'd love to be optimist. Maybe the scientists
> will make a breakthrough in cheap energy and we can
> continue expanding our expansionary culture into the
> distant reaches of space. Maybe the aliens or the
> gods will come and rescue us. Maybe if enough people
> think differently the whole game will just change
> miraculously. I just can't seem to shake my training
> in science and biology long enough to really swallow
> any of these. The biggest possibility I clung to
> longest was lifestyle change- that if the rich got
> over their spending binge, there'd be enough to share
> with everyone, even several times over the current
> global population. I'm not even convinced of that one
> any more, mainly because I can't imagine anything
> other than disaster can stop the spending binge.
> Spending, children, consumption, creation--when people
> do these things, they do it, at bottom, because they
> think it will bring them joy. So, is our pursuit of
> happiness about to undo us all?
> I know there's no easy answer. I only have my
> answer- to never have a kid, and to spend as little as
> I can, while still being happy at it....
> In the Georgia woods,
> Bob Burns
>
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