What some call interconnectedness or one love or communalism is actually all of the individuals in the world interacting with each other joyfully.
Modern technology facilitates an imitation of this. Before we would sit at home after work and maybe someone would come by. Maybe they wouldn’t. Maybe we were married and our spouse was our connection.
Capitalism and cities changes everything. All of a sudden we were able to work less and live closer to each other with leisure time and leisure money.
Then cars and telephones changed everything. We could see and talk to each other much more—really for the first time we were discovering interconnectedness. We suddenly were closer to each other and more interactive with each other.
Then the internet and smartphones and social media changed everything even more. Now we are a button it click away from each other in a highly present interconnectedness.
But it is a platonic shadow of the real thing. The real thing is a highly disciplined from your individual youth empathy and care for others that—with technology—allows a real interconnectedness.
This is something we do not have. And no amount of government or marijuana will do it. It takes a rigorous shamanic education each of us individually. Then we can come together.
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