The paradigm is shifting and the numbers of dissatisfaction at work are clear. The uprising of people preferring to stay out of work rather than work for a corporate model that does not actually value the unique potential of its workforce: what could possibly be the cause of such unorderly behaviour? Suicide is the fourth leading cause of death among 15 – 29 year-olds – its quite a statement to contemplate.
The pace of technology has picked up and continues to drive us but it is limited in its capacity – there are a finite number of resources in any system and our world lives within a finite and limited material resource – our planet – people are also one of those resources. The laws of nature always balance themselves out for good or for bad – it’s our minds that add the labels.
When deep changes take place in the world they are usually driven by ideals – one of the ideals of technology was so that people could have more leisure time in order to pursue those elements of their life that really fascinated them – outside the hard slog. The industrial revolution was born out of this ideal of support. And it is true – technology has made a huge number of mundane tasks far more efficient but this has not been transferred to everyone. The speed of communication and information exchange now is unparalleled in history but there remains beneath those ideals a prevailing stream of consciousness that still persists and a shift is coming.