Symptoms of a Flawed Value System

During the dawn of modern man when survival was a day to day ritual, perhaps humans found no need for commerce and trade. Food was from hunt, as was warmth and clothing-- and shelter, provided by nature. But somehow, perhaps about 45,000 years ago or so--something changed. We 'evolved' into a new state of self-realization. We began to discover ourselves, to compare, to store supplies after gathering and organized our 'wolf-pack' demeanors into a different hierarchal society structure. When faced with the first thoughts of coveting, we discovered envy. Not the justifiable envy of survival-- when a hungry beta pack animal salivates as the alpha enjoys the first draw after the hunt--- but rather--- one in which we found an insatiable desire for things we might determine as extraordinary.

Ah-- but how to communicate such a description? How does one compare perceived value?

Then on another day in another century-- human-kind invented a scoring system we now call math. Numbers to assign value. Numbers that would categorically add, subtract, multiply and divide, even project, extrapolate and predict, with 'derivatives', a future system of values. Humans began to self-judge, and then judge others, based on this assigned value system, as invented by humans.

Yes--- it was necessary to create communications and order, to be able to communicate what was observed to a stranger. Numbers had no emotion and was easily non-intimidating as it became a black and white system without colours. After all, most humans have five digits on each hand and foot, then, symmetry in two, and are often 'paired' by two. Yin and yang, black and white, male and female, day and night all made 'sense' in an orderly fashion with the use of numbers.

Then suddenly, as the pride of humans grew while entering the journey of unraveling some of the mysteries of nature and the universe-- the desire of man to become immortal through an invention to create an even greater self-worth became a paramount drive. Somehow still, these same men grounded themselves with an undeniable spirituality (whether fraught with human assigned value errors or not) --- that God (or a universal Great Spirit) had ordained them with a destined pre-existing self-worth that could not be denied by any other man. Their grounded faith found them a unique confidence to interpret a new vision of invention to become glorious within their place in the universe.

Then there is today.

After world wars and globalization of economies, as the hierarchy status of each individual has become diminished and removed from the grounding each once enjoyed--- it seems, we have created a new numerical based value system within our spiritual core, forgetting the pre-existence of our individual value. Many governing systems seemed to find this 'necessary' to maintain social order, as the populations exploded beyond their control. Thus, we no longer seem to exist to fulfill our destiny; instead, our confidence is crushed if we do not 'covet' enough or possess enough. We are no longer valued for ourselves, but rather, for the amassing of alternatively valued items that hold nothing more than a temporary decor of our physical bodies in our short lifetimes.

Perhaps--- if we try to realize an alternate perception of ourselves and our surroundings--- we might recall how we 'invented' this value system that came after the beauty of the creation that existed before us?