The point

In my last post I exposed a deep core of my sense of history here at the dawn of the 21st century of the Common Era. Technology has, among other things "drawn back the curtain" for many whom in past lives would have been unaware. We are forced to confront ourselves. Perhaps you are not forced to confront yourself, that is a personal matter. But you are forced to see us, to see the human race. This is perhaps the most difficult form of self-realization. To begin to perceive what you are. This is even more profound as we realize that we are perceiving who we are. And in my vision I see the most fundamental revelation as being a complete lack of purpose. "Cogito Ergo Sum", "I think, therefore I am". But what am I? What are we? Why are we?
For millennia we have clung to the rock of religion, mythology and the occult to fill in the empty place deep within all of us where the answer to the above question is supposed to live. We have fought wars over which of our beliefs where the "right" one. We have sacrificed our lives, the lives of our children and whole civilizations in the quest to convince all of us that this or that answer was the "right" answer. The terrifyingly rapid spread of technology has, like the harsh dawn of a clear sun, begun to show all of us that we where wrong. All of us. All the struggle and sacrifice seem to have been for naught as we stand upon the empty plain of history naked in the light of reality. Each of us is desperate for meaning. Meaning for our own lives. Yet, we can not fill in the blank within ourselves unless we fill in the deeper hole within where the answer to the question, "why are WE here?" is found. I have spend my lifetime holding on to the quest for truth as the meaning that I cling to for the strength to continue. But I look forward and see a grey misted tomorrow, I see uncertainty.
I am certain of this, it is the lack of meaning that is eating us up. No one of us can continue without meaning. In the past the struggle to establish "Our" truth was the meaning that sustained us. The truth of democracy, God (one and sundry forms), science and the mystery itself. But now the light of our new found universal perception is dissolving all of our notions and making them small and foolish. For those of you that are offended by this image, take heart, the human beings capacity for self-delusion appears to be infinite. But be warned, the light of reality is 1 degree greater. Whether now, tomorrow or in 100 years we will all be force to see the truth, that we have no idea who or what we are. And more painfully, Why we are.
I truly believe that unless we find the answer to this question we can not continue. I have seen futures in which humanity simply fades away leaving no mark of itself, no catastrophe, no blazing moment, we simply stop. We no longer remember and we stop, we cast ourselves forward into indifference and dissipate in the mist of time. I have seen futures where we destroy ourselves with increasing self hatred and self loathing. Our souls are eaten by our person shame at our uselessness and we race backward, running from the empty future. There is a third vision. One that came to me only briefly at the beginning of my journey. One in which we become...But that was probably my own personal version of hope.
No amount of war, spasm or science can prove a lie to be true. Reality is inviolable and incontrovertible. No matter how true or correct some thought or idea or other may be upon its own merits it can only form a part of the greater whole. And without context is a small piece of a vast jigsaw puzzle, the only one we have and with no place to go. Yes Buddhism, Occult, Christianity or Darwinianism may be your personal answer but only to your personal question. It leaves the deeper question unanswered and therefore, is without merit. For the deeper question is the deepest emptiness within you. No matter what noise you fill yourself with, there is a hollow echo at the bottom of your self that is the, as yet unanswered question, "Why are we?". And though you may go to your grave certain of "Your" answer I know in my heart that the last thing you will see is the unanswered question in the eyes of those you leave behind.
No, we can not continue unless we know the truth. Much has been made of gerontology of late and the question of eternal life is on the agenda. I have an Idea. I believe that the key to eternal life is having a reason to exist, a reason to be. Not just your own personal reason, your children or Your work, but a larger reason. I once spent time in a McDonald's restaurant asking people if they would take a pill that would grant them immortality, no one said yes. Do you really thing that we are here to turn stone into cars? Or to produce ever more plastic trinkets? While the medical profession is certainly noble, it doesn't count as it is only the correction of that which shouldn't be wrong in the first place and the maintenance of life without purpose, save to find that purpose. Our purpose.
Perhaps in addition to tearing away from our eyes the scales that have blinded us technology will also give us the sight to see the answer. But I doubt it. That answer lies in the depth of the human soul and no machine can ever resolve that image.