Dissatisfied with Ourselves

More and more, I am convinced that our problems began with the Industrial Revolution - when we became obsessed with our Machinery - with our Railroads and our Factories. And with the Organizations behind them.

There was nothing wrong with that - except that it made us seem inferior, by comparison. This change in our attitude toward ourselves was very important - but completely unnoticed. There must of been a demand (by those who profited from this) that people not see this. They had become very wealthy from this situation - and they wanted their wealth to continue.

This gross inequality was noticed, and there many reactions to it. But in all this activity, something more fundamental was overlooked - we had forgotten ourselves. And nothing on earth would make us put ourselves back in control.

We knew one thing, and we knew it very well - something else was more important than we were. And we existed to serve it.

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This impulse has existed for a long time. We are social creatures, and we are religious creatures - and this combination is much of what we are.

There was a huge change however, that that began with the Reformation. Protestants did not not want The Church telling them how things were. They could see this, easily enough, on their own - with the assistance of Science.

The world became divided into the Protestant North and the Catholic South. With the North having most of the wealth.

This wealth convinced them their priorities were right - the Organization (the Nation, or the Company) was most important, and the People were less important.

The net result of all this however, in the middle of the 20th Century, was unexpected - people, since they were not wanted, ceased to exist! Before, they had worked hard, to make things work. Now they were not going to work. They would pretend to work - and collect a paycheck, but not much else.