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Death is the great leveller, the most certain thing for every human being.
The journey of life is littered with distractions. Ego, addictions, time wasters, expectations of others, society's control and falsities of trickery. When a human life expires, each of these disappear as if by magic - but it is not magic, but attachments that have somehow expired with the last breath of life.
To balance up things, it is only fair to remind myself of other matters that go with the end of life.
Memorable character, personal resilience, charming personality, generosity, a loving nature, patience, a broad based mindset and an understanding inner self - these are features we appreciate, admire and adore in any one impressive person we are fortunate to meet up with or come to know.
The passing of such a person leaves a hollow in our hearts when we miss them.
The contemporary world that we live in the 21st century continues to be amplified with negative vibes.
Self centredness of politicians are increasing. The penchant for emphatic argument and articulation of personal views and rights, without considering collective community feelings and togetherness, has significantly risen, eapecially in societies that have enjoyed increased materialistic wealth.
Individuals who come into access and control of huge corporate, financial and material reaources can dive into the most ugly of perceived Little Napoleon powerful behaviours of self entitlement and privilege.
The heightened demand for instant gratification and wanting more and more, than any human being truly requires, has impacted on a deadly growing spiral of greed, corruption and a conviction of being able to not get penalised.
Road rage is a illustrative example of bad tempered humans being able to bully others in public, with such people really believing that the machines they operate are an extension of their demented and deprived character.
The issue with software and AI operated processes in society, business and community matters is obvious - human beings reduce speaking to each other, get more influenced by hidden powers behind a screen and interact much less losing human social skills.
Each of us can spend more time tapping and viewing on screens than talking and facing human beings.
We can successfully undertake work, obtain our food, perform investment or expenditure transactions, chill out or exercise, more in the presence of machines than with human beings.
Regular transactional episodes increasingly involve us using machines more than interfacing with other human beings. Checking in to a flight, checking out our groceries, scanning a QR code to order our meal, doing an on line tutorial, making an appointment with our provider and so on - we are encouraged to not see or talk to any human being.
So the chances of each of us to deal with a problematic human being also gets less.
The annoying reality is now when a problem arises, the software we deal with pushes back the responsibiliity to us.
This brings my discussion here to my first point - whatever bad or good points each of us humans have, death removes all and suddenly provides a clean slate.
Death in software mechanisms and hardware devices also brings things to a stop. Has anyone not lost photos or documentation files in computers or smart phones?
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