Technology has developed at an astounding rate in recent decades with the internet boom changing our lives forever. The most recent tech to take us “forward” is AI.
According to the philosophy of yin and yang, whenever we do something, good or bad, it has an equal and opposite reaction. Ecologial behaviour has a good feel about it. Does that mean it will cause some evil later on down the road? If we are to save the planet from our polluting ways, we have little choice but to embark on the journey. But what if we solve ecological problems with sacrifice, does that mean we still have a karmic debt to pay? If we aim for net zero carbon, does that take us to back into cosmic balance?
Religion is often blamed for causing wars. It is accused of being divisive, creating mutually exclusive philosophical realities that lead to conflict. But more fundamental than that, is the pure goodness of religion a magnet for death and destruction? It is human nature to seek happiness and crave peace. Religions around the world have laid down values that aim to satisfy this inner unrest for millennia. Inner calm is big business. But what happens when we channel light? Do we attract darkness?
Over the next weeks, in a series of posts, I posit that we need to consider light and dark when we implement social and cultural changes to benefit ecology. Aetheism dominates cultures today because in the advent of science, ethereal representations of the creative and destructive forces of god (good) and the devil (evil) no longer resonated with the majority of people. That does not mean they are not there. But how we manage them has become much more personalised. Unless you go to church there are no rituals, no prayers and no preachings. Our moral compass is just as likely to be the TV!
Acting in the interest of someone other than ourselves, doing good, is no longer culturally assigned. There is no risk of hell spurring us on, no vicar to mandate behaviour. How do we motivate billions of people to act in the interest of the earth, to undertake that risky business of doing good?
No Light Ecology aims to discuss modern ecological breakdowns, and to suggest practical solutions. Quite often there is a philosophical chasm between where we are now and where we want to be. People resist change, and they have failed to hear the earth calling. No Light Ecology explores whether we can, if we use our energy wisely, make change culturally, without creating waves of light, without doing so much good that it repels the very people who need to change most.
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