A new Human.

 

A new Human.

Some time ago I was listening to a past American president's campaign speech. He was threatening harm to people who didn’t support him for the next elections. To me, that is the end of democracy. I wonder what we are planning to do next.

Years ago, I came to Canada to build a new life. There were no refugee hotel rooms or any financial help or direction, as provided by the government today. Now we have the potential of a government next door that insists that we should pay higher taxes and increase military spending or the neighbors will ask the enemies to harm us. Things are changing but not to benefit me. My situation is not improving relative to my efforts. Am I taking things personally or am I crazy to see it this way?

I am a firm believer in the potential of mental health science to help people. We can go a long way with the right kind of help. Keep the physical body well, understand the mental part and work with the spiritual aspect. Being short on any of those will not provide for a pleasant existence. I accept mental health help for me and for those I am with. I take help when provided.

Combining the above, I come up with a crazy conclusion. Humans are mentally sick. Not just some of us, but all or most of us. We are born with a self-preserve mechanism that protects us from destroying ourselves and perhaps the world we live in. It’s like a reflex. If my hand gets close to a fire, the hand jumps away from the fire faster than I can think. Am I in a reality that I understand, or is my mind building a new existence? Is “now” the end of the way we were? If so, which way do I want it to go? All options are open.

Where I grew up in Israel, we had Jackals and Hyenas. The Hyenas are a female-dominated species. At twilight, they produce a blood-curdling cry that freezes the heart and paralyzes the prey. Their principal weapon is fear. At night I used to lie in my bed and hear the hyenas, thinking that Satan is out and we are doomed. Now I am old and again I have the feeling that some evil force is dominating humans and we have no escape plan. Satan, Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, and other power-seeking selfish entities compete to dominate and shape us. Here, evolution is just starting on a new trajectory. If we humans can survive a major change in how we are made, the species will emerge differently than it went in. It will be changed mentally, drawing upon something old but new that we named “spiritual”. Now I am visualizing five billion people going in the same direction, with no force or coercion to dominate others. Can it be done? I remember we are over five billion, but we are all one. My imagination is building a new, better human being, but there is very little time to properly plan what it should be

Imagining a new form of human being is difficult, since I am looking for a new and improved version. Repeating old mistakes will not do. We shouldn’t be aiming at simply increasing the population as we always were. It’s done and now quality takes over from quantity. A new human should include something immaterial we call beauty. We are done with efficiency.

People have been digging the natural resources up for thousands of years, finding new ways to dig better and more. Name a natural resource and you find us extracting it very efficiently and refining it even faster. We don’t need all that we produce and can use recycling for the rest of our lives. The new humans will do exactly that. Life will be tied to our ability to adapt to new ways. For generations, we have been learning the wrong things, causing overproduction and death to our planet. By cheating and making useless things, our so-called business drowned us in garbage and built useless projects. Now our noses are against the wall.

It is time for the cheaters to face reality and come back to where we need them. We don’t need all their extra oil and gas or other things they make just to be rich. No need for more roads to China either. What we need is a change of heart.

The new people I am imagining will keep busy by helping and educating others.

In the new (imaginary) world, all the effort will be aimed towards what we know is good. Weapons will not be needed and nature will be allowed to punish those who go against it. People will see a reality in which there is a hell on earth for those harming our planet and the good people on it.

Nature, or God, as I call it, is a harsh judge. It does what is needed and can’t play human games considering humans’s forever-changing feelings. Throwing people to the mercy of that court is a harsh step, but sometimes is necessary if we don’t learn what will save us the easy way.

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