Man has to conquer in order to make himself the ruler of the world.
The mythology of our culture rings in our ears and no one pays any attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to our mythology, this is what he was born to do. Man is fulfilling his destiny. This is the price that has to be paid for indoor plumbing and central heating and air conditioning and automobiles.
The price man has paid is not the price of becoming human. It’s not even the price of having the things we want. It’s the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world.
The limitations of the hunting-gathering life had kept man in check for three million years. With agriculture, those limitations vanished. Settlement gave rise to division of labor. Division of labor gave rise to technology. With technology came trade and commerce and science.
The problem is that man’s conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we’ve attained, we don’t have enough mastery to stop devastating the world or to repair the devastation we’ve already wrought.
We have to go on conquering the world until our rule is absolute. Then, when we’re in complete control, everything will be fine. We’ll turn the rain on and off. We’ll grow a bushel of wheat in a square centimeter. Then we move into the Star Trek era. Man moves out into space to conquer and rule the entire universe. And that may be the ultimate destiny of man: to conquer and rule the entire universe. That’s how wonderful man is.
Man was born to turn the world into a paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidity, greed, destructiveness and shortsightedness. Man is the taker culture. Man takes takes takes.
Summitted by:
Pamela Grimm
Palmer Private Equity, is rooted in Kevin’s Behavioral Economic Research that once set standards for Wall Street brokerage firms. It is now run by Kevin & Gretchen both formally trained at NYSE traded corporations. Its Philanthropic entity invests for the public good in the family’s nonprofit. Kevin is a Financial Freedom Fighter, who as an epigrammatic writer illustrates how emotional intelligence leads to decision processes that enable economic dignity & improves quality of life. He published two books as well as numerous articles and blogs on economic and financially related topics and his third book will be out in 2023. Kevin has also had radio appearances on NPR’s Market Place, NPR affiliate KJZZ-FM, KXTZ-FM, as well as television appearances on KPNX-TV, KVVU-TV5, KNXV-TV. He currently resides in Scottsdale, AZ
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