Questions and Meditations

With the rise of a multitude of young nations, the formidable demographic leap and the increasing immediacy of the new technologies of communication, the morals of exploitation and profit became law and normal conduct – shared by the majority -, a principle of existence and a language common to all contemporary societies, defeating all wisdoms.

All sorts of predators grew on an increasingly fertile ground of opportunities.

Sustained observation of behaviors and their assessment in terms of potential mining became crucial to the creation of new goods and tools and their markets. The individual pursuit of happiness, an already ignorant, reductive and misleading proposition, further deteriorated, by rapid increments, into the pursuit of material comfort: the acquisition of each of the material components of an image being projected worldwide without let. We now know that this physical reality which we apprehend through our senses is but a degree or level or state of an infinitely more complex material reality. The more we learn about Matter and its conditions and the more, paradoxically, its mystery expands and deepens. As our methods and instruments of observation are further refined and we become able to appreciate other laws and underlying behaviors – unperceived by our senses -, we are tempted to make use of them, to draw some advantage from them and improve our lot. *

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It is the motive of the quest that determines the knowledge one will acquire.

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It seems evident that, if one steals into this multiple material reality with the intention of extracting the means of creating the perfect weapon, or if one

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