It is 1125am on the 7th of October 2012.
Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention (and by extension innovation), but they assume that there is an abundance of patience that accompanies the desire to fulfil the wants. The alternate (and this seems to be the road more often travelled) is the use of brute force.
But, are there other alternates to meet “needs” that go beyond innovation or war? How far have we innovated to reduce or even remove “needs”? Certainly religion and spiritualism seem to have lost their USP to most of us as options that can liberate us from the endless quest for self-gratification. This is in no way an acknowledgement that consumerism and materialism have won. In fact they seem to have reached a stage where their most ardent fans (the big businesses and capitalism as we know today) are struggling to chart pathways that can sustain their success. The universal laws of entropy (read: there is no free lunch!) have started extracting their pound of flesh.
Perhaps we are all at a cusp in our evolution, with a need to innovate on our metaphysical understanding of our existential relationship with this planet and this universe. There may be a need to develop new philosophical institutions that can govern and guide us to survive beyond what our current understanding portends!
Have a great weekend.
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