The core problem of humanity 21.1.2010

The core problem is our view of our significance in daily day reality and beyond it. While in daily day reality, we can become significant, qua our emotional and social network, work, engagements and contributions to other people, things change when we pass away. We are soon forgotten. That is a fact of life which we try to deny. We cannot accept this fact; that we just disappear in a boundless oblivion after our imminent death, and try to “avert” this “verdict”. We have employed many ingenious, self created illusions to this end. Our capacity to create illusions which we, as groups, believe in, is impressive, to say the least, and it probably mirrors a mental feature or a bug in our mind which can “evaporate” reality whenever it feels the need for it.
There are three major institutional illusions to help us “avert” the fact of our temporariness and therefore insignificance in the course of time.
1) Religion sells the illusion of eternal life in the Afterlife, so the focus is on the life here as a necessary kind of transition to the after life.
2) The liberal capitalism sells the illusion of the significance of our life beyond its natural course, by the “legacy” one creates through preoccupation in the fleeting, oblivion doomed, glittering moment, earning much money and gaining fame, exposing oneself to the limelight of mass media and using ones` energy on self realization- and improvement. It sells also sort of “history will remember you” through the adulation of those who produce these fleeting and glittering moments, be it politicians, journalists, writers and other outspoken people.
3) And then there is the illusion which is sold by Buddhism and similar spiritual systems, insisting that life on earth is but a Maya, an illusion, which traps you through your feelings, greed and lust. You should learn to free your self of these feelings and strive after a Nirvana state, where you become an eternal Buddha.

This human preoccupation in promoting and insisting on these illusions for creating significance and legacy for us beyond death (eternal life) has created a screen of mental noise with such mind deflecting power, so we cannot see the illusions beyond it. This is what makes lots of people easy prey to these illusions which dumb them down and numb their evolving and far sighted faculties. That is why we cannot face our real problems, and act foolishly in regard to our times`great challenges. For this curse in the “blessing”,  we should thank human folly which has created such a thick smokescreen against reality.
Benjamin Katz, klinisk psykolog

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