Brent,
There is always a conflict of the generations. As I describe it, growing up is like grass trying to push through the concrete. Then one day, you wake up and you are the concrete and there is this damn grass trying to push you out of the way.
In my entry I start out with the dichotomy of energy and information and how energy manifests information, while information defines energy. That this dichotomy is reflecting in our physiology, with the central nervous system processing information, while the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems process energy, etc.
Also that since energy is inherently dynamic, while information is inherently static, energy is constantly creating and dissolving information, thus creating the effect of time. Which gets to generations. Youth is that energy constantly pushing out and testing its boundaries, while age is the form and definition we acquire with experience. Our awareness is that energy of being, while our knowledge is the form it manifests.
Currently much of the form of society is being compelled by the monetary mechanism it uses to lubricate exchange, to the point that that it has gone from facilitating the market, to being the primary product of the economy, to the increasing detriment of the environment. I think your generation will eventually find this amounts to a form of socially cancerous behavior and curing it will be required before many of the other problems can be addressed.
Given the desire to acquire money on the part of virtually everyone, the force behind this wave is far greater than just the efforts of those riding its crest. That is why, to put it in a nutshell, I make the point that we have to start treating money as the contract it is, not the commodity we have grown to think of it as. As a public contract, it is a public utility. We no more own those pieces of paper in our pockets than we own the section of road we happen to be driving on. This is in fact how it really is anyway, but it just benefits those controlling the system to have us think it is private property, then we are much more willing to extract value from other stores of value, such as communal relations and the environment, in order to trade in this system. If we naturally understood it as a form of public property, most people would get much more attuned to sustaining value in the more organic aspects of their lives, than everything from elder and child care, primary education, local public projects, etc, would be more community based, even using local currencies, rather than at the mercy of those global control functions.
Regards,
John
