The World is a Jungle

John of Aix

This is a worldwide problem. Well, unless you live in a cave... ;)

In Darwinian terms, compebreastors are the enemy, THE WORLD IS A JUNGLE, the game is to win. In an age of fairness, compebreastors are our benchmark, the game is perpetual innovation, and it's not a jungle out there, it's a community... and all of us are stakeholders. Up to this point in history, the human drama could be broken down into three acts: conquest, colonisation and consumption, a journey from the cave to K-Mart. This kind of evolution is reaching a dead end. Are we in the throes of its climax, as we shop like there's no tomorrow, drip fed from oil wells protected by gunships, a collective orgasm of sweet surfeit? Such a limited, linear view of evolution, suggests the European futurist Ervin Laszlo, fosters such outmoded reactions as "my country right or wrong", closed borders and the belief that poverty is best alleviated by the rich getting richer, so that wealth "trickles down". Is there another kind of evolution within our grasp, one that is vertical, psychological and sustainable? An evolution which takes us from separation to wholeness, shifting our reliance from outer sources of authority to a deeper way of knowing and enriching our capacity for creative self-organisation. An evolution focussed on connection, collaboration, community and consciousness. One day we might welcome the role of the spiritual (as opposed to the religious) in health, business and public life. Politicians could realise that the integrity of our borders is of far less import than the integrity of our actions and the quality of our desires.