Many researchers and scientists have correctly theorised that the Egyptian Pyramids were built with the assistance of aliens. This theory is believed to have been confirmed by aliens in contact with world governments. The purpose of these structures was to hint to humanity at the nature of life in the universe itself.
Aliens who influenced Biblical parables infused the Old Testament with the idea that through a moral code and a degree of selflessness we could escape slavery toiling at the foot of these pyramids and rise and join other galactic civilizations.
At the beginning of the 21st century one sees a world dominated by a Western culture that has been entirely taken over by an ethos of sheer and utter selfishness. Consumerism teaches us that we must ‘be good to ourselves’ and indulge in ‘me time’ as often as we possibly can. The fact that all this indulgence is paid for by starving third world nations and a ravished destroyed environment is of little concern.
The once rather noble American dream has morphed into something that might be seen as hideous by outside observers. The undoubtedly worthwhile concept of individualism has now spun out of control and been confused with a form of self-indulgence that seems to know no limits whatsoever. In this orgy of hedonism, individuals have had hammered into their psyche the idea that their sole purpose in life is to cram in as many fleetingly pleasurable experiences as possible before they die and behave in an aggressive manner towards anyone who gets in the way of this.
Day to day life in any ‘developed’ nation therefore is a hurried scramble of competing interests. After all, my desire to cram in as much fun as possible will inevitably clash with yours.
To help this rather unsavoury brew along the way, new-fangled religions such as ‘Prosperity Gospel’ are brought into the mix. This is an ‘if you can’t beat them join them’ theology. Thinking about myself almost all of the time is actually what Jesus always wanted.
If Sunday church doesn’t re-enforce this message quite enough, for the cost of feeding an entire third world village for a year you can get yourself a ‘life coach’ for a month. You will then familiarise yourself with catch-terms like ‘abundance’ and be told how much you deserve it. As if, by any reasonable standards, you didn’t have it in the first place judging by your ability to pay for this wastage.
Sadly, newcomers from all cultures, many far more balanced, are aggressively spruiked to accept this life paradigm and easily seduced into it by ethically dubious corporate interests.
Recently a long overdue and undoubtedly valid attempt to address the rights of minorities has been underway. In this process it seems the values of the majority have been allowed to rot. In fact, minority rights have been hijacked by consumerism itself. It has become a code word for simply roping as many groups as possible into this self-centred consumer culture. Many people who have their roots in more communitarian traditions find that this rampant selfishness incorrectly labelled as individualism is particularly soul destroying and ultimately unfulfilling.
And one thing has been ignored in all of this. There is a price to be paid for everything. The excesses described here are not really sustainable in the long term. Our eventual destruction might well be the price we pay. A few moments of pleasure for eventual oblivion.
Many UFO researchers hope that aliens might just land any day now and make things right. However laws that preserve the balance of life throughout the cosmos make this impossible. Self-interest is hardwired into all living things in this universe, at least, as a result of the evolutionary process. Only civilizations that painstakingly mitigate the downside of this most powerful force make it through. If we don’t have the discipline to fix our own problems why should another civilization bother doing it for us? The laws that dictate life within this universe don’t tolerate such cop-outs.
Consumer-culture style pleasure comes really easily. We live in era when any form of sacrifice or self-denial is seriously begrudged. However getting to experience galactic existence wont be that simple.
Perhaps there are many individuals who would happily sacrifice the future for their present pleasures. The problem is that self-destruction might not be instantaneous and painless either.
