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Humankind and society (from the food to the utilities, social and technological drifts, morals) A balance sheet for the future (everything is not negative and we are benefiting from the profit, but..) |
Negative aspects of the things preferably attract our attention more, which is undoubtedly normal. The bad acts get the first page of the newspapers because we are awaiting them. They represent however only one small proportion of the facts of the life, but is worrying us, especially at a time when the degradation of our environment is perceived as worsening. In fact, the life is much more balanced than it it is thought, and in the whole alive world, one count much more mutual aid and associations that misdeeds and slaughters. It is probable that humanity distinguished itself frankly, boosted by its materials and mechanicals means, and so get detached gradually from the "wild" life, event our specie will never physiologically accept. |
Evolving of the society.
Trade and its universalization ; Populations exchanged their resources from the very beginnings of humanity
against those they did not have: drink, metals, stones with fires, and later salt, spices, semi-precious stones, silk, invaluable wood,
manufactured objects etc; at the the time of the gathering and hunting; there was trade ! and war also (that of fire, water or the lands). Craft industry and alterations of the products and materials ; these very old activities still remain nowadays. Animals of wich the man discovered very early the property of plants. Men extracted from them drugs : it is the first chemistry ! The work of wood, of metals, the treatment of fibres, of leather, the dyeing, the discovery of substances and products like the tanin or the soap (*), belong to a preindustrial world. Never must we to forget that (*) comes from the Middle-East (Lebanon?) and led to the said "Marseille or household soap" (oil becomind soap by a treatment called "saponification"). production of food supplanted by the services
The progression of the techniques has made lose the producers of food and goods first place, now in hands of
industrialists (secondary industry), who fill the cities and empty the campaigns.
They will lose themselves their importance, outdistanced by managers, administrative ones and myriad
of suppliers of services composing the tertiary sector (the number of people necessary to produce a good being
decreasing regurarly).
With the advent of the tertiary sector (all that does not produce food or goods), Urbanization and the great property.; infrastructure, city promiscuity, loss of contact with the fundamental elements of the life, difficulties isolate oneself if necessary, funnelling on pre-established ways, this completely artificial environment alters the vision of the things and complicates all ; People can seldom see the daylight, got up early in the winter, they plunged at once in the subway to arise in a building, while passing by an underground shopping mall.
Children think that a fish is this agglomerated rectangular lump unwrapped of the paperboard and vision of the animals
or the farm that inculcates the media or the shows to them is denatured if not caricatured.
Big cities and large properties deprive people from natural space which would belong to nobody (referring to our ancestors which were sharing all the expenses before our total domination) ; it is a whole vital side of freedom of living and going about which has fallen ;
The lack of free nature available and
the absence of passages making it possible to go to shortest way
or why not make a mere U-turn, are at the
top of the heaviest constraints.
The motorway and the railroad divide space in two. In the cities, the blocks of buildings drawn up on several hundred meters are also perceived like
such. For an ancestral or vital passage removed, people are pushed to kill.
Former little paths between or inside large properties, are no longer imposed by the local power and disappear. Facing the need for tourism, one
tries however to restore some of them and it is a good thing.
Never the architectural example of the Grande Motte, concrete city for much, has ever been quoted; we discovered there a good quality of living like there is nowhere else; original buildings with terraces in pyramid which free the sky, shaded streets, passages between or under buildings which make it possible "to cross" almost everywhere, with the discovering at random a small square or a shop, numerous concrete blocks on the edge of pavements where you can occasionnaly sit down, several parks with lawns planted of trees where one can picnic (people come there from outside in weekends). Since, a few of this unrestricted passage was closed for safety. The example remains.
Evolution of the the food The anarchistic increase of the human population force our specie to practise the breeding (marine and terrestrial) and the culture (marine and terrestrial) to nourish itself. One give the term "savages" "normal" species. One plans from now on to nourish fish of the marine farms with algae from marine farms, because the sea does not provide anymore sufficient quantities of what one takes to nourish them (plankton, krill), collected well beyond what an army of whales could consume. The USA consume already more than 50 % of breeding fish. The problem is not really the breeding itself but the methods and the concentration with which it is practised : fish live almost without oxygen, because it is admitted that 3 to 4 kilos of wild fish are necessary to produce1 kg of fish of breeding! in addition, one destroys joung fishes, plankton, krill.. One thus thought of breeding herbivorous fish (little appreciated) or worse feeding our current breedings with algae of sea farms algae (it is serious !).
The terrestrial breeding is also perverted; animals do not move anymore but one shows you on TV beautiful fields and
cows grazing. It can be true partially, especially for milk production, by caws which with their enormous udders produce as much water than cream.
Our fishmonger in our village made an excellent brandade of cod until the day when we bought to him a kind of sticky mashed
potaties without taste. Questioned, it answered us: "I tried to find some because I am obliged to rebuilt all my kitchen so that it
meets the standards of cleanliness ; that is not worth the sorrow. I stop the prepared dishes ".
Do they compare he to a back spot of Chinese with some meat rotting on the ground? (according to a TV broadcast on Chinese raviolis).
Well, here is the choice, disgusting, infamous but clean food, cheers Mc Do. Could they be far away from any critic their big suppliers of food and their meat providers ?. The agriculture has long selected the most profitable species (not the best) and lots of varieties due to the mixing of the populations, source of the life, have disappeared. The cloning will accentuate this perverse effect. the plants coming from research are watered, fattened, treated to death ; not less than 17 chemical products for the cereals which make carry a mask or almost a diving-suit to the farmer ; accelerators, ripener, retarders, weeding, anti-insects, dyes, anti-this anti-that; the seedlings considered have all the same height and all of the same brittleness; the poppies do not push long time any more, nor goldfinches, these beautiful coloured birds, because there are no more thistles in the fields. Another example, the golden delicious apple of the Limousin. It profits from the AOC label although it is badly adapted to the wet climate of this French area. The number of treatments is confidential but is estimated at forty per annum (the investigation of the SCESS of 1996 counts 32 of them: 10 insecticides, 18, fungicidal, 2 weedings, 2 chemical clearings). Against the tavelure (black stains), frightening products are used because "systemic" (are in the fruit, conveyed by the sap). Useless to peel it ! There practically no longer wild plants, like this coffee of Etiopie collected in the bush of altitude, under the shade of the trees, by some unhappy mans which cannot earn their living from. The worst has been arriving for long from Holland : under artificially lit greenhouses, seedlings push without ground, in an artificial substrate in which circulates a nutritive "juice" (do not seek in there millionth gram of trace element !). We are going to be feed ourselves with coloured food, testy perhaps, but which will not nourish any more (see funny for the perfumes"). Outside season, considerable vegetables and fruits are irradiated. Not with radioactive elements, but they pass in powerful electromagnetic fields kind of microwave, which will destroy about all, excepted the ouside sight ! So, no strawberries in winter and in general, no "fresh" fruit and vegetables outside season. Evolution of the man. Backlash induce by our side course with our "wild" life. "The function creates the body"; and suppress it. The childbirth will become impossible because of in the increasing size of the baby head (it is said that we are born already premature at 9 months). The human baby is the only one who must be bring up a long time after the birth. In addition to the problems of teeth, one more and more often observes that the jaw is not enough large to receive the thirty two teeth and that it is necessary to remove some of them; the hair follows the same process "of uselessness". The whole of the body loses its musculature and the physical defect of activity puts out of order all the organization and its exchanges. The handicap which one cannot alter gains field. Young people are born with diseases from old man. Human cloning; under pretext that nature makes changes and that we practice seedlings (of which flowers), plants and animals are going to be created by directly modifying the codes of the molecule of ADN (genetic engineering). France has claimed this work on people "crime against the human being". For how long ? we will not escape from it long. Simply imagine that one manages to cure kind of some disease and everyone will want some without any feeling for what could occue later. Offer and demand will make the law very quickly and we won't be able to ban what will occur elsewhere in the world. That will occur like the naked breast story at the beach ; at the beginning one sent the cops for the ladies to covering themselves the top and after, it would be almost the reverse ! finally, people in a certain manner and by his obstinacy, make the law.
Size and evolution :
the Mexicans we met were of small size; according to the guide, it was due to food: I added also the hardness of working
there, because it is proven that the young formed musculature can block the growth (exemples in athletics).
Then a friend said to me "now one makes sport and one grows"; yes, a little sport for some of us but one parks themselves in front of the institute and one goes
up out with the elevator !
in former times, a remover had to climb a scale with more than 100 kg on the shoulder and a peasant usually practised it during several hours; one made the 35 hours in
less than three days and it is obviously not the same thing than to perspire half an hour looking at at calories meter !
The mankind of the rich countries grows unceasingly and women complain from now on to fit a big shoe size. At the Olympic Games of Athena (August 2004), a Russian tennis
woman was 2,14 meters high.
A baseball player, who seemed only strong built on the TV weighed 120 kg.
Dinosaurian wouldn't they also have disappeared because getting too big weight ? and their number couldn't comparable with that already reached by the human ones.
A dangerous shift between production and services.
Certain incomes have no longer any connection with the work done and given service.
Great questioning. - Does the animal has a soul/heart ? like the man of course ! according to the real Bible, that of YHV (Jehovah), it seams to be yes. And the soul die with them and temporally with us (until the last great judgement). From the man, may be yes, me be not. The man is not an animal, is it ? .. if it's better for your psy. I don't bother, specially if you have courageously read down to this line. < > - Does the animal has a moral ? like the man of course ! the Bible seemingly don't care. From the man, may be yes, me be not. The animal is not a man , is it ? but if you consider the moral of the man, it mustn't do plain sailing for animal either. August, 2004 ; Does the animal has a moral ? a French scientific magazine has devoted its entire monthly issue to this subject ; I hope next time it will release an issue to the mankind moral.
In the book "Sinoue the Egyptian", the author yet quoted calculations and perversity of people; do not seek the origin of it : it
goes up with the creation of the Life, based on the death. A contradiction which will clutch in us forever. What can make us recognise respect or
a moral behaviour in the animalkind is most often only uselessness to kill. If the ants could get kalachnikov, they probably wash away all the beings of our planet. Excepted microscopic ones.
Would the wealthy mediums, the intellectuals, the monks have more morals? it does not seem so : the products consumed by the rich person are made under the same conditions
and sometimes worse; they practise the slavery of their employees they don't pay much and steal
in luxuous hotels (gilded taps, dressing gowns, carpet, frames). The monks ransacked molluscs to obtain the colour crimson or their stoups; they get forests shaved to build cathedrals,
temples or mosques (needed enormous amount of wood) and strongly requested the money of the people and even distributed indulgences by which one could
exonerate his sins while paying ; let us note that justice releases with payment of guarantee, which appears also amoral to me; the monks seem
delivered to the defects of the communities folded up on themselves.
Is that morals ?
What we generally prefer to read in the newspapers, see on films or watch on TV, they are accidents, murders, disasters, scandals.
Here some extracts of the interview of a philosopher on the evolution of violence; in (France Inter, October
21, 2004) "the images of violence create an emotion, a fate of the life; it is the raw material of the topicality
because we are petitioning it; violence according to Plato is related to courage" ; "the
manufacture and the sale of weapons were never also flourishing, but by selling weapons, one exports violence"; "the economic interests of the
countries justify the use of the weapons"; "why offering a sword to the academician?"
"It is necessary to act on the violence so that it does not become a right, a way of life" (it is the case of a minority in
sensitive districts known for that, but one also sees it on the street with the regular citizens, and it is exacerbated by motorists : for a simple
parking slot, one can die!).
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There is fortunately so much kindness in this world, people responsible, active, generous, devoted to good causes and who, as well as possible will
repair the indifference and the damage of others. Let us be clear, I do not speak about those which save the planet on the TV or in great
international conferences.
"noise does not make the good, the good does not make noise"..
The catholic religion said: "God came down on this eath to help the man to wash his sins", but on the ground, nothing can be done because
the man (Adam) had bad behaviour for ever. We only have to support the assistance of God while waiting for the last judgement.
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The moral comes first from the Life; it is not worth while to kill nor to steal without need; however, some birds will
steal the nest or the decorations patiently assembled by others and the cat plays with the bird or the mouse he caught ; ants practice the greenfly
breeding and species become invading under the effect of a too significant temporary
multiplication (the human one is not far back).
Morals it is not the same one for all of us. A Rumanian who gains 150 € a month (it is a rich person for these abandoned children of Quito, of Vietnam or
besides), does not see things like that which get ten times more, with a whole heap of facilities and welfare benefits.
It is not the same according to whether one is hungry or not, that one needs taking drugs, alcohol or not.
Does morals can be dictated by the monk? should it be confused for us, the European Christians (it what created
Europe), with the seven sins ? in the USA (Christian Protestants), the abortion, which is the great cause of national dissension,
is banned. In France, it is accepted but loosely (latency which leads to heavier interventions or refusal). Some doctors refuse it in spite of the
law. In other European country, it is more flexible and fast; it is a trade.
Morals is evolutionary. The well being generally leads to an easing of morals. The naked breast at the beach or on the pages of magazines are rather
representative. It is enough that the community decides it (without being able however to prevent one strong opposition). With my neighbours, my
friends, my next in general, I have a morals; provided that they do not disturb me too much. It is exactly the same for the racism.
Morals is dictated by the needs the Life, and more precisely by the life in large societies : it is evolutionary. Respecting it depends on
the incurred risk, of the desire and of the threshold which one accepts to trespass. the same questions are unending; the increase in
population and the urbanization complicate them. A religious revival, facing conquering religions, like was ours in the past, is not to be excluded.
Great difficulties await us and one sees them well pointing everywhere (resources water, energy, poor countries against rich countries,
provoqued wars, invasion of rich countries. Morals will do with.
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At the beginning of the Christian era, there would have been 300 million inhabitants, 550 million in the 15th century, 1.3 billion in the 19th, 2.5 billion in 1950, 3.6 billion in 1970, 7 billion soon.
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from a Voutch's drawing ) There were lions in Europe and France. And forests composed with beautiful species which one nimbly replaced by pines; it is easier to set fire to. We almost shaved and all exterminated on our planet, especially the forests (for religious buildings, shipbuilding, dwellings, heating, agriculture, cities) and the remainder followed; conscious of the danger and the weakening of the planet resulting from that, we try to prevent the others from making as we made (Brazil). The exotic wood, of which teak make shave the forests of the large monkeys (orang-utans), our collateral. Considerable animals do not have any more food nor refuge; Pygmies either: they beg along the roads, Pygmies either: they beg along the roads, while for other reasons, Inuits stuff themselves with bad food in front of the TV, so much so that the French man, Nicolas Vannier (trail in the far North) is shown as example by their parents ! Africa strips itself, the jungle of Borneo doesn't exist anymore or almost. One does not believe in it. However, this vegetable depopulation has surely more responsibility in the reheating of planet than the famous ozone hole whose size appears more politico-scientist than justified by the ozone rejections or other culprits ; the primary (rain) forests, producing both vegetable and animal species (and drugs discovered by "the good savage"), treated enormous quantities of carbon dioxide by producing oxygen, what our forests, cleaned and sterilized, can't do so much. During a broadcast on the canopy in Amazonia ("Hushuaïa "of Nicolas Hulot September 2004), a scientist underlined this idea, occulted because awkward, as well for the scientist community than politics. That statement comforted me. At the contrary, a scientist recently declared, feeling that the wind of the history could turn, "the man is likely to delay the new ice age" what a nerve ! (see the ice ages). However, I know that there are particles from our cars silencers in the ice of the north pole or waste gas produced by the man, but if you consider gas emanations of the volcanoes like Pinatubo or else, it's not nothing either. Most astonishing is this last discovery, which would be humorous if it were not serious, is the enormous quantity of methane which would be produced par.. our cows; and the human ones then? the man makes research only towards the directions more less disturbing and easiest. Let us greet the audacity and the merit of this adventurous researcher. |