Rethink Progress
Channel: Better future!
Date: 2023-04-20

Maybe the way we perceive our future needs to be revisited with thoughts that deviate so much from how we currently plan and order our world, that it might seem like sci-fi futurism when it is simply drastic measures for drastic times.

Maybe our programmed idea of progress is still part of a deliberate vision of purely mechanistic amoral power relationships, which has little place for the real conscious life, life’s healing potential and the abundance of life forms we experience, regardless of our own socio-economic status.

Maybe it is part of the counterfactual ideological fixation on the “mechanistic superiority” of survival specialists like viruses and bacteria that we might even want to mimic in our own mechanistic survival behaviours.  While, on the other hand, we seem to be ignoring the amazing ability of consciousness and conscious cooperation of frail, less adapted for survival, complex organisms like us.

It was originally published on my LinkedIn Page and the most up-to-date revision will be found at this link:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rethink-progress-michael-m%25C3%25BCller-pretorius