Human beings Reach Plateau.
The human beings. It now seems, have reached an apex in their development and seem content with their lot. They are beginning to exhibit the tendency to remain where they are and go no further.
Could it be that the synthetic environment they have constructed around them is actually succeeding to dead end the human race? Think about it.
Would you deliberately install certain conveniences, if you realized they would cause regression of humanity, beginning with your own children and grandchildren? But that is just what is happening, or so it seems.
Unwittingly this has been happening in human society since the era at least of the so-called renaissance, and we see, if you will, the subsequent development of civilization, including the expansion of Western civilization into the Americas and so on, in spite of many other negative things that happened, the subsequent advancement of humankind.
But, you see, these very advancements may actually lead mankind to a dead end, or in this case, what may be thought of as an indebted end!
There is an interactive relationship between the human being and the environment. It is
beyond human ken and understanding to be able to realize these very things. We as human beings interact with that form
of impetus of growth. If you knew what they were, you would be certain to include them in your environment. But you see humankind is not capable of that level of intellectual thought.
Rather the environments around us all are merely what humankind, at least those in charge in any instance, anticipate to be necessary in that environment they fabricate. But art to the rescue, as long as you stop starving and mistreating your artists.
This is one of the basic functions of art. To reach beyond understanding, logic and reasoning and into the realm of inspiration, reaching beyond humankind's normal capabilities to bring into our world those things, qualities, aspects or what-have-you to aid in the inclusion in any given environment those elements necessary for sufficient human development.
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Paul A. L. Hall. All rights reserved.
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