Prophet of the Electric Age
By
Thomas M. Easley © Copyright 2005
(with author’s permission)
Why is it so difficult for mankind to produce just and meaningful leadership? Why do small minded people, believing that acquisition of power increases intelligence, so often amass authority over the maintenance of societal well-being?
Are we certain, without doubt, that mankind is evolving?
Is there a link between technology and the concept of belief?
The human species is a self-organizing system wherein we, its comprising ingredients, exist as individual parts contributing to the species’ self-organization. This is much like an individual human body self-organizing its many parts. The immune and lymph systems, coordination, balance, soul, brain and heart functions, cellular and nerve functions, conscience, the senses, etc. all initiate and develop in conjunction with the mutual goal of shared authority over the life of the human body. As such the presence of leadership in the body of mankind represents a troubling deficiency, a failure in and of the organism to protect itself, to link all its parts, to understand itself, to actualize potential, to evolve.
Leadership by this account is a fraud, a millenniums old assault on the species well-being and the dissemination of supplementary scales of vision to its various organs and parts.
But how, you ask, can we survive without our Kings, Queens and Presidents, our Dictators, Tyrants, Popes, Princes, Teachers and Saints? How does one man survive from morning to night, day to day, year to year? He relies on the combined intelligence of all his parts to direct his way.
Presently, because of mankind’s addiction to leadership, survival without leadership would be difficult, even impossible. Yet … an ant of change is on the march. Year by year more people come to abhor our diminutive and abridged perspective on reality. More people flee the confines of our linear one-dimensional perspective and begin to reason multi-dimensionally, to increase scale of vision. We as a people are beginning to understand that those, or that, which we deservedly follow do not lead. They learn, and we learn from them that true leadership amasses no disciples.
Today’s average, the “common” man, has begun to gather and process observations with the initial gradient of species scale-of-vision: the freedom to communicate on all levels of interest both mundane and otherwise without the burden of physical proximity and the predatory assessment of an overriding authority granting them the privilege of doing so.
In these uninitiated saints, the anonymous masses, the electric age is being born. In them the gestating seeds of enlightened technology are taking hold and growing. Our species is self-organizing us.
For thousands of year’s one man’s ability to communicate with another was local. But for a long walk, distant ride on a horse or ship, a new idea in North America would not reach Asia. Even then when new ideas did travel they were filtered through established powers engineered to maintain leadership rule. Men were not free to exchange ideas as individuals. Today this has changed. Technological advances, an escalating Internet, media broadcasts and a wide range of telephone services have begun the process of interconnecting separate and diverse parts, expanding the reach of species-self-organization.
This is so because technology is not merely an array of intriguing and helpful devices. Technology is a being-state within the species, a quality of mind, or “brane;” capable of implementing the next level of species evolution. It may even represent the manufacture of our experience of human soul, our ambitious visions of eternal life and our contentious apprehensions of God.
Rather than using technology, perhaps it is we who are being used, used by our own species directing the growth of technological prowess to its purpose; that which we deservedly follow.
Further, taking the Bible as a historic rather than a religious text, we find this intriguing phrase, “Christ will return to Earth after the word of God (or is it Species Dictation), has reached all four corners of the Earth.”
Apart from being a man of profound worth in the role he plays in Christian belief systems, Jesus Christ duplicates as light or energy … electricity. Scanning the globe via satellite we note with some significance that electricity; technologies food source, has, in fact, reached all four corners of the earth.
The return of “The Son of God” is upon us yet not in the form or manner predicted. Indeed, but for whom has “The Light” returned, for whom or what?
Here we link belief with technology as man’s successful adaptation to Enlightened Technology requires belief, but not a belief in the absence or presence of any and all forms of God or God-ness.
Belief is a bioelectric impulse made active in all men as a means of fusing individuals to laws and processes (both known and unknown) governing the whole of mankind. That we believe, and not that we believe in, is the force of law within the species that connects the electricity in one man to that of all men. The common bioelectric of belief accounts for our eager and capable adaptation to any and all things electric, our hurry to turn on the light once it was invented.
Belief is our pathway to the stars held down by possessive interpretations of leadership. Where leadership prospers it divides and we are made weak as a whole. This deficit will be corrected as all structures requiring leadership, religious, political, economic, etc., meld into our absorption of electricity through technology, Enlightened Technology: prophet of the electric age.
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