Nov. 2, 2002

Movement of Freedom from Agriculture to Internet

(by Karmayogi)

• The history of civilization is the history of enlarging Freedom.
• It is by losing its Freedom that the Absolute has created the universe.
• The conscious loss of freedom is at every stage marked by the forgetting of the Origin, cosmos, universe, Time, other worlds, the wholeness of the being and practical efficiency.
• The advent of agriculture released man from his dependence on Nature is a thought of original value when we conceive of civilization as increasing freedom.
• From this point of view, one can look at each development as an occasion for increasing freedom.
• The Internet, the latest advent of organisation, gives us several such freedoms.
• Chronologically traced, this freedom is graded. Documented thus, it will be a study of anthropology or one of organisation.
• No new collective capacity is devoid of this element of increasing freedom.
• At random, we can think of several such developments. Freedom from
• the priest that Martin Luther brought.
• the burden on the memory given by printing.
• cold through fire and shelter.
• foreign attack made possible by the army.
• the present by money.
• physical drudgery by innumerable technologies.
• pain given by anesthesia.
• diseases by medicine.
• superstition by science.
• insecurity by police.
• tyranny from democracy.
• slavery by law.
• hunger brought by advancement in agriculture.
• karma from spirituality.
• To prepare an exhaustive list of such freedoms given by the Internet is good.

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