Thanks Adam, Carpe Diem, I definitely agree. I have long talked about my day being a book, the pages on my left are all behind me and I can do nothing about them except to learn from these experiences, the page ahead of me is today and I only get today's 16 hours to live it fully, the pages on my right is tomorrow and the future. I can't do anything about yesterday or tomorrow really, so I must concentrate my whole being on today.
Thanks again for a well researched and presented article. It has prompted me to learn more about the past/present/future paradigm and I will start with Larry LittleBird. Cheers Mitch
The human story of the future as imagined and shared by the storytellers of Hollywood seems to offer either a tech focused utopia where humans travel the galaxy, exploring other worlds and life forms or, a dystopian option here on earth, battling aliens, plagues, class warfare or other apocalyptic disasters of man’s own creation. Interesting that few of the Hollywood fabrications end in our total destruction; either we abandon earth for pristine planets and new sources of fame and fortune OR some hero rises from the ashes to save us from our human foibles. We happily abdicate responsibly for the future we are setting for ourselves.
And yet we still find a willing audience for tales of simpler times. The lone rider out on the range, exploring a world not yet tuned for efficiency and maximum output; a human nostalgia for a life of fewer distractions where we have both the time and space to feel. To be present.
The quote and video from Larry Littlebird that Adam shared offered a vision of backwards into the future and forwards into the past, was for me a proposed roadmap that might offer a little salvation. If we, as a human collective, allowed our future to retain more of humanity’s past - a world before marketed wants became accepted needs - then we might still have the opportunity to save ourselves. The efficiency of our capitalistic system has disconnected most people from the land, the source of their food, the compounding costs of their consumption and the clarity that a little solitude and reflection can offer. We’ve traded comfort for numbness and apathy, charging forward to a future that we desperately want to believe will maintain our comfortable existence without demanding any sacrifice.
The future is the manifest of the stories we tell ourselves and the choices we continue to make. It’s time for a whole new story to be told - of hard truths and present gratitudes. Each of us need to be the next hero, the courageous orator, play what role we can to save our collective future.
Thanks to Adam for helping to tell an honest story.
Thanks Adam, Carpe Diem, I definitely agree. I have long talked about my day being a book, the pages on my left are all behind me and I can do nothing about them except to learn from these experiences, the page ahead of me is today and I only get today's 16 hours to live it fully, the pages on my right is tomorrow and the future. I can't do anything about yesterday or tomorrow really, so I must concentrate my whole being on today.
Thanks again for a well researched and presented article. It has prompted me to learn more about the past/present/future paradigm and I will start with Larry LittleBird. Cheers Mitch
The human story of the future as imagined and shared by the storytellers of Hollywood seems to offer either a tech focused utopia where humans travel the galaxy, exploring other worlds and life forms or, a dystopian option here on earth, battling aliens, plagues, class warfare or other apocalyptic disasters of man’s own creation. Interesting that few of the Hollywood fabrications end in our total destruction; either we abandon earth for pristine planets and new sources of fame and fortune OR some hero rises from the ashes to save us from our human foibles. We happily abdicate responsibly for the future we are setting for ourselves.
And yet we still find a willing audience for tales of simpler times. The lone rider out on the range, exploring a world not yet tuned for efficiency and maximum output; a human nostalgia for a life of fewer distractions where we have both the time and space to feel. To be present.
The quote and video from Larry Littlebird that Adam shared offered a vision of backwards into the future and forwards into the past, was for me a proposed roadmap that might offer a little salvation. If we, as a human collective, allowed our future to retain more of humanity’s past - a world before marketed wants became accepted needs - then we might still have the opportunity to save ourselves. The efficiency of our capitalistic system has disconnected most people from the land, the source of their food, the compounding costs of their consumption and the clarity that a little solitude and reflection can offer. We’ve traded comfort for numbness and apathy, charging forward to a future that we desperately want to believe will maintain our comfortable existence without demanding any sacrifice.
The future is the manifest of the stories we tell ourselves and the choices we continue to make. It’s time for a whole new story to be told - of hard truths and present gratitudes. Each of us need to be the next hero, the courageous orator, play what role we can to save our collective future.
Thanks to Adam for helping to tell an honest story.