Think about our Earth, the one we mostly know about.
There are so many problems, lifestyles, paths.
You can incarnate as a rich person, or a middle class person with all the conveniences afforded to only royalty in previous ages. Or you can incarnate in so many poor lifetimes. Poor in food, poor in social connection, poor in society.
All of these are existing right now in this world.
Every little group of living arrangements is important to our journey and growth as a species.
However, they are no longer necessary and we are about to enter a more fair world. Which has a lot of scary ramifications.
The most scary that i see is that the two main paths are:
- Living in 15 minute
citiesopen air prisons. - Living in a small community, like modern tribes.
First world problems?
We, in the first world, think that we are better than 3rd world inhabitants. We have pizza parlors and movies and giant supermarkets. But, they have a peace of mind, much more real interactions with people, actual caring of families, and much healthier food.
We all have problems. We all have issues. And we all have paths of growth.
It is actually quite hard in most "modern" countries to be a shaman. There is no place in society for you. You pretty much have to curtail your being, and hold back, and act normal. In places where tribes still exist, there is the medicine man, the shaman, the guru. And these persons are often treated in high regard, although they may have to live outside of town.
In India, it very easy to get into spirituality. You can literally stumble into Buddhism. Although, you have to live in a society that doesn't take care of its rivers, and other build ups of garbage.
In America, especially in small towns, there is few people to relate to if your life path is increasing your spirituality.
In India, people just accept reincarnation as real and the way things work.
In America, people think your are woo woo if you talk about reincarnation. Even if every, other, person has a story about their grandma saying, you are just like how your grandpa was (or some such).
All of these locations around the world and their sets of problems are by design, and people working their life lessons have choices on how they wish to try.
The Great Migration
The differences in the future are going to be greater, but smaller.
Everyone, everywhere in the world will have access to electricity. Most everyone will have access to the same level of technology.
However, everyone will be a part time farmer. If you wanted to work as a scientists, and have another person grow your food for you, you would have to talk someone into doing that for you. However, it will not be done for money, like many do today. Further, you may not want anyone growing your food. You will want to know exactly where your food has been. Also, it will only take about 10 hours a week for you to take care of your plants and livestock.
We will migrate to be with our "family". The people we are most connected with. Those who think like us.
And after we get together in our groups, we will start making new customs. There will be like a million tribes all over the world, and each one will be different. Because we won't have a television-programming culture anymore, shaping our minds to all be cogs for the machine.
So many of our problems caused by currency and promotion of lack will be gone. And we will start working on much greater problems.
The two futures
In the short term we are going to see two major groups (especially in America) those who want the safety of 15 minute cities, and those that want the freedom to be with their kind of people.
Yes, the 15 minute city support structure breaks down pretty quickly, and those in it have to strive to work together with the group the find themselves in, or perish. A lot of people are going to perish.
In the beginning, going out a starting a small community will be the harder path, as people work out how to support their community before the continuous-green-energy devices are everywhere, and while roads are decaying but flying cars are not quite yet a thing.
The flipside, the 15 minute cities will be very inviting. The pamphlet looks great. Everything will seem to be already done for whomever wants to move in. The control grid will not rankle too much at first. And, in fact, many people might love that kind of environment. The trouble is that you will be a slave to a system. A system that is breaking down. You will be forced to eat ze bugz, because that is all that is available. Everyone forced to become farmers, and there is still not enough food.
And like i said earlier, money will not buy food. That entire system breaks down. So, the 15 minute cities will continue to try to get food from the tribes, but most won't give anything to the multi-national-corporations who run the 15 minute cities. The corporate farms fail badly as the soil is mined out. And the new tribes who are practising permaculture are finding themselves almost completely self sufficient, are not interested in pseudo-slavery farming of the old system. So, the new tribes just say no to providing food, unless the cities actually give them something of value. (and gold won't be valuable)
I am unsure if knowing that there are two futures will help most people.
At this point people are pretty much destined to end up in one or the other. Yes, at any time you could decide to go east instead of west, but if you are already close to that ocean (Pacific or Atlantic), it is fairly hard to turn back and go all the way the other way. In other words, your life choices have been pretty much made by this point. Those who want to live in the 15 minute cities are already pretty much set on that lifestyle. And the ones looking for their tribes are already thinking of moving to small communities away from the cities.
So, i am not really writing this for those who are sitting on the fence, although, if you are sitting on the fence, you HAVE to make a choice. No choice means you will be one of those who doesn't make it. Well, there are those men who can go out and live in the wild. And you could choose to be one of those.
I am writing this for those who have chosen one path or the other. And to tell you about what awaits on that path.
The small community tribes will be harder at first, but that actually helps them become a solid group who are looking out for eachothers interests and well being. And things get much better for these groups as they become MUCH more self sufficient. Distributed manufacturing and sharing of technological upgrades to things becomes common place.
Look forward to the future you have chosen.