It seems a lot of old religious and philosophic traditions are being drug out and dusted off, by the modern world, to explain and deal with its ever increasing consequences. Aka, blowback.

Might there be some lessons just staring us in the face and not hidden in the corners?

We are this dichotomy of desire and judgement, the heart and the head, yet insist there is some ultimate goal or stage our trivial movements must be leading towards; Heaven, Nirvana, the Singularity.

What if there is no ends, just means, no destination, just journey? That we have a mind to think in the present, because there is only the present. When we plan too far ahead, we ignore the many reactions to our actions, until they are too large to avoid.

In this day and age, we are governed by the experts, but the effect is a global Tower of Babel, where everyone is absorbed in their own rabbit holes of specialization and it is difficult to step back and look at the big picture. As I like to point out, there are reasons the people running armies are called generals and specialist is about one rank above private.

Though in this world, the people who would be best at seeing the larger picture would start off as those children with the broadest interests and consequently constantly being diverted by new things. Yet rather then being encouraged to follow their minds, seeing and sensing how the many aspects of reality do tie together, they are diagnosed as attention deficient and medicated until their minds fit back in the boxes.

I could go on, but this age seems more focused on fixing the old, or at least digging the deepest holes, than building up the new, so I'm waiting until there is nothing left worth fixing and people have no choice, but to move on.