A few thoughts on the collapse of civilized society.

[ananda]

During my life, I have read some very interesting articles
on what causes humans to go into mental decline and
their society to move into chaos and collapse.

One of these articles posited that there was a direct
ratio between the size of an area and the density of
the population, and once the density reached a certain
percentage the society would go into chaos and human
mentality would decline.

Others have to do with the way we think of our world
and the beings and things that populate it. There is a
holistic view and a mechanistic view. Apparently,
humans started out thinking and living holistically.
But as time went on factors came into play that changed
that thinking.

Descartes, for example, became so enamored with his
hydraulic statues that he decided to become a mechanist
and convince others to do the same. All across Europe
there was vigorous debate between Descartes and those
inclined towards the mechanistic view and those who
were not.

This lasted awhile until mchanism became the prevailing
view, particularly with the advent of the Industrial Revolution.
This meant that humans could be considered parts of a whole,
like numbers in an assembly line. Education followed suit,
with students going to schools where they were also treated
as numbers or parts of a whole.

Once this happened, humanity and the planet were doomed.
With the separation of one and the other, it became possible
to exploit, oppress, and divide others; to treat them badly
and use divide and conquer methods for social and corporate
control. And that has certainly happened.

Then quantum physics came along and professors like David
Bohm started arguing that the entire universe is basically
holistic, and that the human brain is a holographic organ
designed to project quantum reality to our senses.

Therefore, to treat the world and the beings in it as though
they are parts of a whole and other from us is operating on
a basic fallacy, and the result is chaos and mental decline.

And these premises certainly look accurate to me today,
just as they did years ago when I first read about them.

And that is where we are now.
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