Man has to conquer in order to make himself the ruler of the world.
The mythology of our culture rings in our ears and no one pays any attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to our mythology, this is what he was born to do. Man is fulfilling his destiny. This is the price that has to be paid for indoor plumbing and central heating and air conditioning and automobiles.
The price man has paid is not the price of becoming human. It’s not even the price of having the things we want. It’s the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world.
The limitations of the hunting-gathering life had kept man in check for three million years. With agriculture, those limitations vanished. Settlement gave rise to division of labor. Division of labor gave rise to technology. With technology came trade and commerce and science.
The problem is that man’s conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we’ve attained, we don’t have enough mastery to stop devastating the world or to repair the devastation we’ve already wrought.
We have to go on conquering the world until our rule is absolute. Then, when we’re in complete control, everything will be fine. We’ll turn the rain on and off. We’ll grow a bushel of wheat in a square centimeter. Then we move into the Star Trek era. Man moves out into space to conquer and rule the entire universe. And that may be the ultimate destiny of man: to conquer and rule the entire universe. That’s how wonderful man is.
Man was born to turn the world into a paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidity, greed, destructiveness and shortsightedness. Man is the taker culture. Man takes takes takes.
Summitted by:
Pamela Grimm
I saw the writing on wall, when the first non-broker trained CEO was appointed at MERRILL LYNCH. My boss, who answered directly to that CEO, said to me after first meeting him, “…some people make bold moves to climb to the top. Others hide behind them so they don’t get shot in hopes of reaping spoils, if others fail. Time to take the severance package before this ship blows itself up…” I requested mine to be finalized on May 8th the day Joan of Arc liberated Paris in 1429. Not long after, two executives and I were advising other firms on how to be better Broker-Dealers. Four months almost to the day, on what would have been my usual quarterly visit to Merrill Lynch headquarters in New York City. The Twin Towers were attacked. Seven years later my old firm MERRILL LYNCH collapsed under subprime and credit default swap mistakes. The rest of the financial markets and the country’s economy followed.
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