mindfulness

We live in an era where we seem to be more mighty and at the same time more vulnerable than ever. The word Anthropocene can help us to understand why. I can collect many questions under it wings and bind them together in the same discussion.  We can, for instance, se climate change and extinction of species as connected phenomena.  We can also see that something happened with the human society after WW2. ( se more at  http://www.anthropocene.info/great-accele ration.php  ) Until recently not many understood that we could change the surface or the earth so much. That we also have influenced the atmosphere and the big oceans a lot. That we are causing a mass extinction of animals and insects.  In the site above there are many suggested solutions to look at. And the situation  is very severe.    The new view of humankind is that we really can influence the Earth. We have not been aware of it      before. But now we can be m

Will all fall apart if we don't have anything to believe in? The importance of the  old gods in Greek and Rome faded away. And instead came Christianity. Now, in the west, the belief in God and the truth of the Bible is fading away too... This painting of Goya is said to illustrate this; The dog is looking for his master in a cold and empty world, but he (God) is nowhere to be found. What myths do we have insteadS Maybe the one of liberal democracy . It may be a good one, even if its now threatened by old fashioned ideas. In Brunei, for instance, sharia-laws are introduced, as stoning for homosexuality and adultery. In other part of the world nationalism is growing. Yuval Harari points out that liberal democracy has a hidden weakness, the belief in free will. We have never had much free will, but in the future it may be totally gone. We will be in danger of being hacked by the algorithms in AI. Governments or companies can send so much false news , that we st