The Killing Fields of Progress


In the last post of my last blog (“Liberty … Too !!”), I asked: "Would we fear the government whether we did not fear each other ?" I should have added: "...would we not fear AND DESPISE each other !" And I mean: despise the other not because of what he does but because of who he is ... in our mind.

In the first place, do you know who you are, basically ? Where were you before being in the womb of your mother, where will you be after your death ? Is there a 'you' before and after life ? Every human being in life in this regard is equal to the other, fundamentally. What distinguishes me to the other is not who I am but what I do. There is not the smallest reason to say the contrary.

Now, any living individual is bound by the time and place where he is born, the kind of society and family where he grows up and lives. But, whether the values of a man do differ considerably according to epochs and localities, they remain always the same considering the esteem he gives to others. We are as much different as possible from one another but we still are the same when it comes to respect. Moral values unite people !


In many cases, the society we live in either encourages or blames individual respect toward the other. During the seventeen's century, a Scottish Highlander chief like Vich Ian Vohr, in Walter Scott's 'Waverley' did consider hospitality as the highest virtue of his attributes and at the opposite, a middle class person of the French Riviera today lives behind high fences that will never open to anybody in the world if he doesn't know the people knocking at his door. Evil principles divide.

There are two powers, two rules, two influences in the universe, the physical one as well as the spiritual. One that tends to divide and its opposite that unite, one that takes things further away from one another, that moves forth, rips apart, when the other brings things closer. These are in physics the two opposite influences: the centripetal and the centrifugal forces. Here should we come to the notion of ‘progress’.

Progress ought to be the way to equalize the differences between people but, unfortunately, progress is tied to profit and power. As such, progress involves more domination, more inequality, more distress, more suffering. Progress divides and kills instead of saving and unite mankind. Advocates of progress are not shy about their goals. They say loud that their aim is to run kings. They devise the best weaponry under the bright sun, they enslave overtly, they advocate depopulation blatantly, they destroy both nature and their fellow men quietly under the eyes of all of us. If progress has united anything ever, it is mankind into slavery through pride and selfishness.

Two hundred years ago, people did not travel. They were born and they died within a perimeter of a few miles, and they did not feel the urge to cover long distances as a pleasure, as a hobby. Today, one can see in every ‘highlife’ place, from California to Bahrain, from Cannes to Hong Kong people as young as sixteen or as old as eighty driving supercars worth hundred thousand $ just to get around the corner to buy a pack of cigarettes, a bottle of Coca Cola, cars that are designed to drive oneself four times around the world at more than hundred mph.


Then, people knew each other, talked to each other, had a life together, for good or for bad. Now, everyone ignores his neighbor but befriends strangers at the end of the world through virtual means or in a flight of a few hours. Mankind has ceased to be homogenous, in the neighborhoods, in the countries, in the families. 

The run for power has never been so great, so desperate, so life threatening. Everyone on earth wants more, those who have as well as those who have not with the overwhelming consequence: total control of people. If we do not reach the conclusion and say “no”, now better than sooner, the ones who hold the strings will finally reach their diabolic aim to prove the ugliest predictions true with no return ticket. See for example :

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