The Two-in-One problem

we are all interconnected.
We are the cause and we are also the effect. As I said before we are both but not at the same time. We create progress and does it not run on the ruins of what went before? The first man who was footloose and fancy free called himself a nomad and did he not thumb noses at his ancestors who were content to their arboreal existence? A nomadic life came unfashionable as soon as man invented agriculture. Progress is a kind of monster that eats its own kind.
Progress at any given point of time and space is only as good as what is yet to come.
We all arrived the moment we cultivated crops and owned a piece of land. That joy was short lived as soon as some discovered they were too late to claim lands for themselves and instead must work on the lands of others and be bonded to serve. Well progress sounds good on paper and in working it is only designated to undo all that advantages some tout as fruits of progress. The landed gentry who were called to pay up for the right to own lands to the nobles must have soon realized progress is merely a catch- all for both good and bad. We are connected to both good and evil. We are important enough to lay down rules for who are below us in station but not worth sitting down with those who are above us.
So those who escaped servitude and slow death in the monotony of agriculture went over to cities. Of course progress they called in their ability to choose their own trade or make a living. How good was it anyway?
From the above it is clear we create conditions for escape while we shut out ourselves in some manner or other.
You and I are equally responsible for this whether we took sides in any part of the problem.
The two in one problem explains the basic dilemma of being material being with an abstract dimension attached to every element that makes a man.
benny

Change of Uses

The dream of flight is fueled by our observation of the birds, and is illustrated in myths across the world (e.g. Daedalus and Icarus in Greek mythology, or the Pushpaka Vimana of the Ramayana). The first attempts to fly also often drew on the idea of imitating birds, as in Daedalus' building his wings out of feathers and wax. Attempts to build wings of various materials and jump off high towers continued well until the seventeenth century. ( aviation history-ack:wikipedia). Thus man in trying to imitate truth of experience does so after his fashion: from nature- a pushpak vimana; or a composite type- wings made of wax in imitation of birds’ wings. Man adds something of his own invention to what is already existing. No wonder, inventive mind of man shall not rest with a single success. If he would learn to be airborne he would put it to refine to such degree that shall keep with his ever changing requirements. Hot air balloons shall be replaced with gliding, biplanes and so on.

In course of time we find airplanes are not merely for flying but for military purposes. Planes that could destroy towns, cities thoroughly are natural extensions of man’s striving for excellence. In short man who raises himself ever a notch higher into higher realms finds a drag that makes his angel, a monster. Can there be evil in the very perfection that we strive for?
Devil is in the details, sir. In the very essence of Good resides resident Evil like the serpent in the Garden of Eden. This is inevitable: since every progress of man is necessarily a cooperative effort. Each man in trying to be relevant according to his time and place changes the original intent ever so little that mankind will never catch on till the whole enterprise turns thoroughly irredeemable.
Benny