Sometimes is difficult to tame those daemons that have something to do with our more primal instincts: sex, rage or survival. These days I´ve been recalling a book I read many years ago, where the author described a society based on a closed-circuit life, this is, birth, life and dead inside a huge building, without ever going outdoors. People there were heavily divided by their abilities. The most successful ones lived higher, the others, lower. But, all of them had one thing in common, aside the fact of living in the same place: they could have sex with all women in the building, but hidden social rules dictated that the “lower ones” should stay there.
What if we could do the same now? Have sex or share wealth with everyone? What could change? How our lives will be? Different? the same? better? worse? It´s very difficult to control our most basic instincts just to comply with rules created by a group of people that is not here anymore. Violence and poverty are the results of this kind of ideas, envy and hatred are also side-effects. Perhaps our mindsets need to be changed now. The old rules don´t seem to apply anymore. People need different perspectives, because our society is completely different and is evolving fast. We cannot rely on old power schemes anymore. But, inertia and control of the masses by a few are almost impossible hurdles to take. Nonetheless, I believe a big change is approaching, and we´d better be prepared for it, since the world as we know it, is going to chance forever…