Wednesday, June 3, 2020

The Meaning of Being Human in a Post COVID-19 World

A sign of enslaved societies is that they lose the capacity to contemplate on, understand, articulate and act on the principles of their own civilization's philosophy. Enslaved peoples lose their identity. They see and judge themselves from the worldview of their masters. Their master's beliefs become their beliefs. Their master's preferences become their preferences. Their master's aspirations become their aspirations.

In a one-world post-COVID 19 scenario, two essential human attributes might become increasingly rare: creative, independent thought and genuine compassion. As globalization reaches its pinnacle and all people of the world increasingly think the same. The differences among individual nations will be external and insignificant (traditional dress, gourmet food, ancestral language, ancestral religion, national currency, national policy and some cultural vestiges), until those too will diminish and disappear.

Residents of this emerging Orwellian world become like robots - devoid of creativity and compassion -  while machines will be endowed with these and other artificial human characteristics. The potential for chaos and anarchy would increase as people fight to survive in an environment where they are unable to judge right from wrong, truth from falsehood and friend from foe. Without thought, rumors and false news may cause hysteria to spread giving authorities the excuse to use force to further implement their agenda of complete global control.

With global thought controlled by formal news, media, advertisements, social trends, social media, celebrities and popular trends, people will end up following one another - the blind mice following other blind mice. The inability to think would be compounded with nearly 24/7 screen time of content created by others, brainwashing humanity and making them believe, like and do what the global social architects wish. All humanity will think and talk about the same issue at the same time.

The single global digital currency would not only control humanity's financial destinies but would also allow further control on them by using data analytics to study their spending histories. Thus custom advertisements/media content would be streamed to them based on all these trends locking people to their smart devices forever. People will develop reptilian brains by which they could only react by instinct, leaving little room to develop deep, alternate thought patterns.

People of the world would become excessively isolated - not marrying; living without family, let alone an extended family. Thus, they would only be able to practice compassion with animals or machines! Without emotional intelligence, their perception of their predicament would likely be more distorted and they would slide further from intellect and wisdom.

If we examine the philosophy of all the non-Western civilizations in the world, we would realize that although some are very ancient and deep such as the Chinese civilization, the Indian civilization, the Native American civilizations, the Sub-Saharan civilizations, the Aboriginal civilization, etc. they do not have the characteristics that can provide an alternative to this one-world scenario we are entering. At best, they can just add their flavor to the external personal practices and well being of its practitioners in this new world. They cannot challenge the new "reality" or provide a comprehensive, natural, just, practical, methodological and foolproof way of life that can replace the emerging system.

The only liberating philosophy from such a man made system is that of Islam. As our sincere, learned scholars pass away there will be fewer people to carry forward the mantle. People would have to guard and grow in what they know like the early Muslims did in Makkah - learning, safeguarding and teaching in a globally antagonistic world. Nevertheless, Islam will be the only liberating theology par excellance that all conscientious peoples of the world will flock to it restore their humanity. Thus to be a human in the post-COVID 19 world in the full sense of the word, one would have to be a Muslim in the full sense of the word.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Please leave your comments for feedback or if you wish to convey a message to others who read this blog.