"The [human] species will never learn to co-exist if given total freedom."

[sjel]

A lot of people are saying that humanity is waking up. I will likely be pounced on for saying this, but I just don't see it. I feel most of humanity is more asleep and disconnected than ever on a real level (at least in the US), while paradoxically being more "informed" and connected than ever via the Internet and mass media. It could be that the STS powers of control are ramped up in reaction to the levels of awareness emerging in our world, but the result is still an anesthetized populace.

I don't think I agree, but I'm not sure. There are a few significant things I have noticed. The intensity of the societal vices has risen to an all time high. I don't if it has peaked yet. But there is definitely a limit. A desire that is ultimately shallow can only be explored so deeply before one becomes conscious of the God-reason behind it. And I find that a significant portion of the dance music, the rap music, seems to be "heading somewhere." (Not consciously, in most cases.)

Hesitatingly I suggest that the transient desires of the collective mind are rapidly moving toward a final climax. I don't know what happens at that point, or after. I myself have in the past two years experienced the extremes of certain of my desires and, gradually recognizing such experiences as ominous representations of the ultimate dead end of desire, have let go of many many attachments very rapidly. I think that is what is occurring with the average person, at a different pace.

There is reason to be hopeful! People's actions are continuing to demonstrate distraction, but their enthusiasm is dwindling, fast. I believe they are realizing, slowly, that desire for distraction generates massive amounts of suffering. That is what I perceive with a gratifyingly large number of individuals. I think further that those who do not give up their attachments when it is time develop mental illness of some kind. It really is too bad that those who have a far-reaching voice are not communicating all this. This is something I would like to change.