The Digital Age: A Critical View from a Wisdom Perspective
By OM C. Parkin
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The Digital Age - OM C. Parkin
OM C. Parkin
The Digital Age from the Viewpoint of the Wisdom Teachings
Question: We are undergoing the so-called Digital Revolution,
which was triggered by the invention of the computer, and there is a term that is associated with this, namely the Second Modernity.
The First Modernity
was about muscle power being replaced by steam engines, and now in the Second Modernity,
it is important that the brain power of the people is replaced by artificial intelligence.
Where are we?
OM: I do not know. From the point of view of the eternal wisdom teachings, the Digital Age
is not a revolution, it is not even a point of reference. The digital revolution will change the external world very much, in a good way, but also in a bad way, that is for sure. And it also marks a step in human evolution. But the eternal wisdom teachings and their laws will remain entirely unimpressed. This revolution is led by idealistic self-proclaimed benefactors of humanity from the Silicon Valley in California, who share a big misunderstanding. They are all subject to a serious internal/external levels confusion.
This is a rather unwieldy term that you have used frequently. Does it mean that they become unable to distinguish between the internal and the external world?
In the minds of these digital conquistadores, there is the belief in a doctrine of salvation for the whole human race through technological progress, which is supposed to substitute for religion. In other words: They confuse the seemingly infinite creative possibilities of the digital revolution and the life-enhancing conditions for many people in the world that they may be able to create with an awakening path for humanity. An awakening path is an inner path, and the leading heads of this revolution will probably not even know what an inner path is. Do you know why I find Apple© so unsympathetic?
Why do you find Apple so unsympathetic?
Not that their products are bad. On the contrary. It is the spirit. Apple is a good example for what I called the descent of the sacred into the dullness of the material world
in the book Intelligence of Awakening¹. They consciously drive a mystification, a quasi-religious excitement about a product that ultimately nobody needs. A good example was their advertising for their iPhone: If you don’t have an iPhone, well, you don’t have an iPhone.
This is pure megalomania. Following that, an artist arranged an installation at the Altona train station in Hamburg, with a giant iPhone showing a different advertising message: If you don’t have a soul, at least you have an iPhone.
From the viewpoint of reality² it is completely immaterial whether there is an iPhone, or not. I could not care less about it. It is a testimony to the poverty of the soul and extreme naivety, when people, who are eager to purchase the next device, spend the entire night in front of the Apple Store, just to be the first ones who are able to walk out of the store with the device in their hands. The consequence of this mystification is that many owners of an Apple product, who suffer from a lack of self-worth, believe they hold a precious totem in their hands, which is charged with a force that is able to increase the value and meaning of