This paints too bright a picture, ignoring the bit about who is to buy the endless mass-produced shoes, since most people are now unemployed & cannot afford them. This comes out of the worship of money, viewing efficiency & convenience as more important than humanity, itself.
What is the point of our life on planet earth? What do we value, what do we promote & wish to sustain? Efficiency? Making lots of money? The ability to buy pretty but largely useless things? The industrial revolution seriously impacted the then-thriving middle class, where Mom (or Dad) could remain at home, caring for the children, the home, & the bread-winner. Post industrial revolution, that way of life disappeared, almost mandating the double income.
There is no balance in our new automated, robot vision, & I question the values underlying it. It has no “soul,” if you will forgive the term. It is lifeless & uncaring. What are we promoting, here? Ways to help rich people get richer, at the expense of everyone else?
Where is honor, integrity, & common-sense in this mix? Do people have no value? I’m not speaking-up for the continuance of the old paradigm, which I also see as rather lost when it comes to values & integrity. Looking forward at the picture you paint leaves me deeply concerned. What is clearly valued here is money, the more of it, made as swiftly & efficiently as possible, the better. Really?
With the huge portion of available jobs being currently in the service industries — what does that say about where we’re headed? Why bother with university education to prepare for such employment? What would be the point? Most graduates now are not working & deeply in debt. Where is this headed?
A lot more & far deeper thought needs to go into this picture. This is hugely influenced by the rejection of soul/spirit/consciousness in the move to adopt mechanistic answers to everything by both science & academia. When we’re viewed as accidents of the Big Bang moving forward by Natural Selection, we’re little better than machines or trees or whatever.
The Industrial Revolution also contributed greatly to the huge disintegration of our natural environment, which we clearly don’t value, based on the way we treat it. This new revolution is just more of the same, the way it’s developing.
Are we sleep-walking, or what? Are we all okay with this? Is this the best we can envision? What became of our connection with the divine — our freedoms & rights issuing from Source, rather from man, as enshrined in the founding documents? Are we really this lost, & hardly anyone able to see it?
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