The Middle Age
.. A snapshot view of the world today
Avid readers will be well aware of the insightful nature of this blog. Its ability to dig through the nonsense presented by the media and represent it as indisputable truth. There is no false news on this site only really inaccurate and blinkered views.
In order to understand the world today we need to set a context which is this….
Created too late to be Victorian age steam engine drivers and yet too early to be interplanetary space travellers we find ourselves stuck on a planet which is being totally trashed by a raging infection called the human race.
By and large, humans are only interested in these top three issues: –
- Personal Health
- Personal Wealth
- Power (over others)
Personal Health
No animal wants to spend its time wandering about not being altogether… well together. If we are not well then, the world is an even more difficult place to live in. Yet health and fitness are not seen as the same thing. As the food supply in the first world increases, people are becoming more and more unfit but through the use of drugs are maintaining a level of health.
In the third world, food supply is chronic, people may well be fitter but are not as healthy due to poor access to poor quality food and less medical support. This is of course a very bad thing.
Is it better to be unfit and healthy rather than fit and unhealthy… one is certainly more comfortable than the other, neither are optimal.
Personal Wealth
“But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil,” (Timothy 6:10 if you’re biblically inclined. – That’s the other Tim by the way)
It is well documented that the pursuance of wealth leads to corruption, bribery and extortion. From the great religious institutions of the middle ages to modern oligarchs (allegedly), cyber criminals and so on.
This of course raises the question not of inequality (of which there is plenty) but of the cost of wealth. Are the poor made poorer simply by the act of the rich getting richer. Are these two linked by a limited money supply?
Power
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” – Lord Acton 1887
The way to achieve power over a population is to become the earthly representation of an all-powerful divine being. To the laymen of the ancient world this was equivalent to their king or Pharoh being that God, venerated as such.
When surrounded by sycophants who would only ever tell you want you want to hear because of their pursuit of personal wealth (see above) then of course your moral sense declines.
The Roman Emperor Caligula was renowned for lack of moral. Though not a God, a well-known German Dictator in the 1930s and 1940s was surrounded by corrupt infighting senior members of the party. His moral decline is well documented as is theirs in the Nuremburg trials.
More modern times and less salubrious are famous people of fantastic wealth and again surrounded by those sycophants … Pop and Film stars, dreaded politicians… it goes on.
In Summary
When considering all of these aspects to human behaviour one can see how the pursuit of health, wealth and power does damage other people and indeed the planet herself. (Gaia).
A definition of ‘Greed’ is “an inordinate or insatiable longing for material gain, be it food, money, status, or power”.
The danger the world is now facing is that those who are in a position to actively initiate measures to restore the planetary equilibrium are the very people who have climbed the ladder to the top in pursuit of wealth and power. The very people who have little interest in anything other than their own standing and lifestyle.
Can gaia do something to rid herself of this infection. Is climate change a deliberate attempt?
