From resourcefuel to resourceful

In this blog post, I’d like to zoom in on an understanding we, as modern day people, seem to have developed in the course of the last centuries of evolution, when it comes to ‘what fuels’ this process of developments.

In looking at the pattern of human evolution, since the industrial revolution  (see my previousblog post for a summary of human evolution), I notice something about how we deal with resources.

We regard oil to be (among) the most important fuel to keep our lives in motion and we treat all natural resources as we’ve come to treat fuel:

1)      We have evolved into believing that resources need to be burnt, in order to provide us with the high caloric energy we need to move forward, to create joyful comfortable satisfying experiences with.

2)      Having used at increasing speed in 300 years what needed millions of years to develop naturally, we know that those resources are becoming scarce now, putting us in an uncomfortable state of alert, since the shortage of this natural resource is perceived to threaten the comfortable life style we’ve grown to like so much.

We are (probably not consciously) applying what we have learned about the process of using some natural resources as fuel (oil, coal) in evolution, on all our natural resources.

You stick fuel in a machine. Burning that provides the energy boosts, that help us move forward.

·         We stick food in our bodies, that we’ve come to treat as machines. We burn the food to help us, individually move forward.

·         We stick people in bureaucratic machineries to fuel the work force (the rat race). We burn their/our humanity to help us individually and collectively move forward.

·         We stick responsible people in government to make good decisions for the whole, to move us forward. They do a good job in burning each other ( to help themselves move forward) and what is left after that is burnt by the media.

·         We even stick our social connections into machines: smart phones, computers, social media and are interacting with people ‘online’, ( burning off our brain cells for various reasons) thinking that helps us individually move forward.

·         We stick our knowledge in databases, burning our own memory, thinking that helps us individually and collectively move forward.

·         We stick our own response ability in the belief systems of others, burning our own capacity to think for ourselves, thinking that helps us collectively move forward.

Does this sound soap boxy, with a hint of passionate anger finding its origin in ‘ not understanding’ why we, as a collective, would do such a thing?
Good! And I am not finished yet.

We are burning our good resources on one side ( hoping for the best) and  we find it too expensive on the other side to invest in growing, developing in a sustainable way ‘new’ resources, applying principles of scarcity everywhere. 

And where there is abundance, we burn it again:
Fields of ‘ good food’  are few and far between ( scarce) and ‘ more expensive’ and hard to come by.

Fields of ‘ good people’ ( co-developers of sustainable high quality solutions: partners, children, workers, artisans, food producers, animals, inspirational writers, etc. etc.)  are considered to be few and far between (scarce). Although viewed as ‘ valuable’ or ‘ precious’ and hard to come by once you found them, we don’t pay them accordingly, we don’t fuel up their lives, nor in money, nor in appropriate attention. Instead, we burn them, squeeze as much as we can out of them, so we can individually move forward and drop the residue of those actions , at a low cost.

Low cost??!!!

Using  our ‘ burning’ resourcefuel mentality where we do things at this type of ‘ low cost’, we favour quantity and speed over quality and we grab and consume whatever is available that gives a quick boosts of feel good energy.

As a result, consequences have a tendency not to be fully ( in relation to all that matters)  assessed, before a field of resources is being processed.

If the consequences are :  destroying the high quality of your own personal health, social circle and environment PLUS  destroying the structural healthy integrity of the collective and its’ environment,  I would hesitate to call that ‘ at low cost’.

So far.... I had great fun ranting with indignation.
Great fun in every social gathering of intelligent engaged people.

Do I have a solution? What should we do??!!

I propose a solution that stems from the understanding you’ve got to BE first the change you want to see.

I see, that we, as a species ARE at the moment resourcefuel, burning ourselves up in the machinery that life has become.

I propose to us all, to energetically take the ‘ e’  ( resourcefuel) and invest that E-nergy in being resourceful.

It is a small step for man, but a giant leap for mandkind..... in doing so we stop burning ourselves, we apply ourselves, over and over again.

We ARE resources, we ARE energy and life is already fueled up by Energy in motion ( E-motion).
All we have to do is use it wisely.

Please, sleep a night on considering the possibility that resources don’t have to be put  in manmade machines and routines (or need to be found in using machines as a result), and that the joyful comfortable experiences of life ( 24/7!) can be created from the resources we have within ourselves,  in our natural ability to grow sustainably, because we ARE resourceful.

Knowing an living from an understanding:  I am resourceful, opens the channels  for better solutions to feed evolution..

Just play with  the idea, by investigating for yourself:.
Are you predominantly resourceful......or predominantly  resourcefuel?