The Problem With Abundance

GRW writes "Peter de Jager, "a speaker/writer/consultant on the issues relating to the Rational Assimilation of the Future", asks, 'What do traffic jams, obesity and spam have in common?' He answers that 'they are all problems caused by abundance in a world more attuned to scarcity. By achieving the goal of abundance, technology renders the natural checks and balances of scarcity obsolete.' His article is a thought provoking discussion of the unintended consequences of technological change."

Comments

Re:scarcity

[GMontag]

Just like cattle overgrazing a field, humans have become more and more of a risk to their own existence. If there were fewer humans, we would have many fewer problems.

Wait, you are trying to tell us that we are somehow running out of food even though the supply keeps increasing and the price keeps decreasing?

how people make their choices

[bmac]

This is why it is imperative to live your lives with the intent to share. Coexistent with that attitude is the idea of gratitude which ensures that those who have more than enough be thankful enough to find ways to help those who do not have enough. All this boils down to people not knowing the purpose of our existance, which is to seek God in our lifetime and do His Will. Without that wish and the further understanding that our success in fully reaching and serving God depends upon our choices, we do not have the proper perspective within our decision-making methodology to make selfless decisions. If you understand that we are tested by our Creator with gifts such as wealth, poverty, sickness and strength, then your perspective has the proper breadth.

If you think that when you die, it's all over, then you make you decisions for self, unless the selfless decision makes you feel good about yourself. That has nothing to do with making your decisions in light of our end-of-life (once the universe stops expanding) judgement and the countless (billions or trillions at least) years spent within an unaging energy body in one of the two possible destinations: heaven or hell.

What choices are you making and, more importantly, why do you approach your decision-making process as you do? Choose carefully, hell is a bad, bad place and The Deceiver of Man is ever-ready to whisper in you ear the things that will send you to accompany him in hell. He has the ability to speak in your own inner voice, making you think it is your own. That is why Muslims are blowing themselves and innocent civilians up and why priests are molesting children, amongst the other more minor tragedies of daily life, including the ridiculous obesity found in America.

Go to www.mihr.com to learn the truth and how to escape Satan and his hell. Laugh all you want, but there is no logic for *your* life choices. And certainly no big picture. And *absolutely* no real happiness (though, perhaps, pleasure).

Peace & Blessings
bmac