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  • Gabriel Guedj

    Member
    November 19, 2024 at 6:38 pm

    Hi Lillian,

    At the moment, I think many people would agree that most cities are far too hazardous for healthy human development. The reasons for this are endless. I think one thing of great importance is that our children are not born into and spend early life in a world that is essentially dead as all the scenes and soulless activity condition their minds to a new “normal”. I can tell you there is nothing more dangerous than someone who believes that any form of sickness, whether it be mental or environmental, is “normal” or acceptable as a standard of living. This thought scares me beyond all measure as we forget what true beauty and health are and instead give ourselves up to something in every way inferior to God’s original design. This process is very much connected to the phenomenon of Shifting Baseline Syndrome. I wish you the best with whatever choice you make although I just want to reiterate that I do not think it’s very plausible at this point to turn things around en masse in the cities – nowhere near enough people are on the same page to initiate something of this magnitude. Maybe one day we will create new cities conducive to well-being with animals and nature throughout. For now, though, we must protect ourselves as much as possible from the death throws of a disease-ridden era by moving towards a completely different setting where the memory of the old technocratic world is mostly absent or has been neutralized with positive, life-affirming energy. Of course, we can only do this one step at a time.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by  Gabriel Guedj.
    • This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by  Gabriel Guedj.