“Make a Killing”
In an earlier post, I talked about “fuss, worry, clutch, and grab”, saying that when personality does not have enough ‘power-to-be’, sickness occurs, causing people to become fiercely competitive. Another way to consider the consequences of ‘powerlessness‘ is the business exclamation, “I just made a killing!”
When the vast majority of people rely on ‘external support’, a ‘fierce’ Collective Ego forms that is deadly! More than one hundred years ago, Sri Aurobindo warned,
If humanity is to survive, a radical transformation of human nature is indispensable.
The warning was not listened to, and the situation has only gotten more urgent.
WARNING! WARNING!
“But because the burden which is being laid on mankind is too great for the present littleness of the human personality and its petty mind and small life-instincts, because it cannot operate the needed change, because it is using this new apparatus and organization to serve the old infraspiritual and infrarational life-self of humanity, the destiny of the race seems to be heading dangerously, as if impatiently and in spite of itself, under the drive of the vital ego seized by colossal forces which are on the same scale as the huge mechanical organization of life and scientific knowledge which it has evolved, a scale too large for its reason and will to handle, into a prolonged confusion and perilous crisis and darkness of violent shifting incertitude.”
We now use a ’smash and grab’ operation . . . taking advantage of people experiencing “a prolonged confusion and perilous crisis and darkness of violent shifting incertitude.”
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!