Do we have to turn the wheel of time back?

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On 17 Aug 1999, Harsi das wrote:

 

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> And I know what I am speaking, I was born in a small romanian village,

located very beautifully between the Carpatian mountens, acording to western

standards my family was very poor, we had two cows and a few other animals,

and about a half hectar of land, we where plowing and working the land with

horses. The village had almost know electricity, only in the majors house and

in a few other places, we used petrolium lamps for light in the evening, the

houses had no bathroom and the toilet was outside in the garden.

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I was recently reading a little Western European history, mostly along the

lines of France and Russia, and particularly in Russia, most of the 'simple

villagers' were simply serfs and peasants who'se fate was tied in with the

whims of the wealthy landed aristrocracy. This went on up to the Industrial

Revolution, when the bondage for many was transfered to the capitalists in the

factory. In other words, the simple idealistic life described by Harsi was not

the norm for many in the days before big industry.

 

It seems to me that it wasn't really until post WWII America that the masses

found themselves with substantial free time and disposable incomes, and then

most of the youth simply became disenfranchised hippies.

 

In other words, without a deep sense of spiritual culture at least partially

based on the principles of the mode of goodness, it doesn't matter how 'ideal'

our life is arranged -- it will simply turn into hell in time. I mean there is

no real lasting heaven on Earth, owing to the fact that this is Earth and not

heaven.