I blogged a five years ago about a possible social reality which I called "Bumping Around". Let's recap...
Is the social imagination morphing into a hopeless bumping around collective mentality?
It seems so... How is that possible? Technology is replacing our
livelihood and sense of place. And, moreover, it is changing the meaning
of individual lives and families and how we consume.
Technology is largely controlled by the power elites who through global top down entities and their implemented systems control work; and thus, control the money. What will the social imagination be able to do? It will conform as best it can... people will be bumping around. They will live with no permanent sense of place or partner or family because there is no job that can support a home, a spouse or family.
To better grasp how this will come to be, we can look to the past. The
communism of the past century is the best and nearest
example. Everyone was socialized to care... socially engineered to care -
to care about the State. The propaganda used was aimed to get
everyone on board with the State.
Once it appeared that everyone was
cared about the State, then everything else that matter to them became
secondary or discarded. Essentially, people had 'equality' but only to
the extent that everyone had little to own, little to do and little to
care about... Sure, they appeared to look busy, have a life... but
people were just bumping around.
Again, the first modus operandi is to get people to love or 'care about' the
State because it cares about you and then you can love 'care about' others because
they love 'care about' the state as much as you. Once
those at the top see that you care about the State (the), they
start a propaganda to get you to collaborate with them to remove caring
about anything else that might get you to not care about them and that
means to watch out for those who might not be so caring about the State.
In the future of
the coming global communism, there is already a call for neo-humanism.
The new caring mode of being and all controlled by the new 'State' of
social media directed from the top down. There won't be the kind of
intimacy between people as we know it now (quickly fading) and there
won't be concern for
gender of any kind.
There won't be any skilled labor or specialization either since that will be taken over by elites and their robots. People will be bumping around passing small courier packages, hard copy information like official notices, fines/tickets, medical waste and body parts, food delivery, and also some small human comforts to be exchanged along the way.
People will sleep where they end up at the end of the day (no more individual housing),
they will share their day with strangers but they won't be strangers really... just people
like them doing the same kind of work: bumping around and not caring about it. There
won't be anything to really care about since everyone has been made the
same. Evgeny Zamyatin wrote book about this called "WE"!
Given that recap on Bumping Around, you may ask, what is neo-humanism? According to the so-called experts, neo-humanism is supposed to offer an alternative, empowering way toward a sustainable world. Neo-humanism traces the origins of unsustainability in people’s private efforts to address public problems. Ah ha... Bring on the STATE! The neo-humanist solution would be to deprioritize economic growth in people’s lives – we would live in a post-growth society, in which our ability to enjoy life is decoupled from consumption. Say what???
They say that a common misconception of neo-humanism is that, by giving up consumption and the comfort of modern lives, we would doom current generations to live a lifetime of sacrifices for the sake of future generations as research belies this misconception: it shows that consumption contributes to well-being ONLY at early stages of economic development. Beyond a certain threshold, its contribution to additional well-being is negligible.
Now, that sounds like consumption is NOT for the long term well-being of society... guess they forgot that consumption means eating and drinking. And, now, you should wonder are they talking about depopulation... right? Oh, in sum, they say that promoting social relations would decouple well-being from consumption: people could lead satisfactory lives independently from what they consume, thus reducing their negative environmental impact. Not sure what that means... guess it means = Bumping Around!
Commentary: "Does controlling consumption result in 'bumping around'?
Answer: “Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.”
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