No, I do
not allude to AI, to robots or other Frankenstein. The life machine, the only one is man. We are
born to be alive. The main goal of life is to live. Although that sentence could
look simple-minded, on the contrary, it means a lot, a lot that we, in our
material world have forgotten, if ever we did learn anything about it.
To begin
with, open your eyes and look inside as Bob said. Where is life ? In every living
entity and the easier to reach is oneself. That doesn’t mean it is the easiest
to understand ! But at least, it provides a starting point. Just take off the
different masks you have dressed. Then, think that the atoms your body is made
with are billions years old and that life itself appeared, as far as we know,
on earth, some four billions years ago. Life that should not have appeared at
all if considering its scarcity in a wild, wild, universe, where formidable
forces are at work continuously, in the dark or under unbearable lights and
temperatures. Life is a kind of antimatter ! But life is.
Although
the earth is turning at high speed in the more frantic speed of the galaxy,
there is on earth an apple tree standing in the silence enriched by birds songs
that man can hear while just stretching his arm to eat an apple … Then, one can
draw the tree, resolve a mathematical problem in its shade, but that’s another
story. Not that it has less value but that, in the order of things, that is an
afterward. “That” holds on the root of life which is not any root: it is a kind
of miracle root and the sole of its kind.
This seed
of life upon which we human build has its own history and destiny, its own
meaning, its own teachings. We use them, we defy them, we forget them, we
ignore or transgress them but they are, and they are what matters, in the end
and at the beginning, nothing else. This must be understood, accepted and developed
the right way, and, in mankind’s history, only a few individuals did build with
that. Because respecting life in man, if that was the case, would have never
brought societies at war as we have had since ever.
Because,
after some five thousand years of ‘civilized’ human life, the earth should be a
paradise, for each and every living entity. The model is clear and up to anyone
to see, to understand, to maximize, to enrich. Colors, sounds, textures,
patterns, rhythms, melodies, ambiances, contrasts, movement, drawings, tastes, with
an infinity of shades, with a permanent variety, with a conscientious mood but
ready to be happy, a smile behind the ears, innovative, curious, creative, vigilant,
mindful, friendly, beautiful, delicate, grateful, enthusiast, faithful, helpful, spontaneous, that’s
life.
All these magnificent characteristics are embedded in every life form with an infinity of varieties, Man has his share and his duty as well as his happiness is to build on them, to develop, to enrich this prestigious inheritance.
You don’t
have to speed but to hold on.
You don’t
have to reach but to tend to.
You don’t
have to compete but to share.
You don’t
have to bow but to smile.
You don’t
have to comment but to act.
You don’t
have to seem but to be.
…
Mankind has
changed the most in two hundred years than it did before because it has become
a connected whole, on one side, and it has become the largest biomass on earth.
Those two criteria
have considerably weakened its resilience that lies in diversity, in adaptive
potential, in creative exchange between different people.
At its
beginning, this explosive situation could have taken another turn, had man been
intelligent. As Wells puts it : “In your time the feudal lords no longer
existed, and the domination of money was to be born. Half of the men who
populated the land lived in the open countryside: the cities had not yet
devoured them.”
This was
the middle of the 19th century. People had the fresh experience of
absolutism, by monarchy and republic as well, the beginning of the city’s evils,
with London and Paris, and many did conceive the solution of empowering,
sanitizing the countryside but not enrich the big town’s sharks. Already at this
time, the Physiocrats followers like Henri Georges and many other bright minds
knew the road to take, to no avail.
As usual,
force won quietly accompanied by money changers and cult leaders. But, for it
is now global and takes more time, evolution did not stop, desires of freedom
even if ill applied still live, mankind learns and it is its duty to keep away
from the dangers of its present situation, to reverse the steam and move
forward on new grounds, on ideas that have sadly never been practiced until we
reached our present tipping point of a global evil leading to the cliff.
Goals must
change, in finance and institutions, practices must change, in justice and
economy, spirits must change in education and property: the only valuable
property, by light years, is the moral one, followed by the educational and the
intellectual. Materiality is a disease like all the industrial world’s
illnesses that have spread, a cancer that can stop with new ways, new aims, new
moods. And every human has to do the change, to take part in this ‘one in a
destiny’ chance. No waiting, just do it, because there is a kind of gravity
force that takes masses lower and lower, and that at an exponential speed
according to the masses’ density … Also because, of course, of the ones that
profit of the system and believe that they control it, although they don’t, in
the end, or now. At least, as soon as we
want to.