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There is no doubt that technological development has transformed humanity. It has brought us closer together and made us more similar and more interconnected.
Gradually, an international culture has formed that is now accepted almost everywhere in the world. In America, Europe, and Asia we see the same tourist hotels, global chains have spread across the planet, and universities teach similar subjects. News channels report the same international stories. Organizations and companies have established branches across continents.
The world has become “round,” i.e., humanity has become one interconnected and integral society. In such a society, if a change occurs in one part of the world, the entire system is affected. For example, if a large international corporation collapses, its branches in different countries close, chain reactions are triggered, and many people around the world suffer. In this way we discover that we are all interconnected and dependent on one another.
Looking ahead, experts predict that as technology continues to develop, more and more people will be pushed out of the labor market. In addition, the ecological crisis will force us to reduce unnecessary industry and consumption.
Such a reality may leave billions of people unable to earn a living. This will require us to change the socio-economic model and ensure that every person and every family in the world has their basic needs met: housing, clothing, food, water, electricity, gas, and all other essentials required for a normal life. The main occupation of the twenty-first century will focus on building global systems and organizations capable of providing these necessities. “Service” will become the key concept.
Alongside providing basic living needs for every person, we will also need to invest great effort in reshaping education and culture. A positive global environment will need to be built, supported by upgraded communication systems. Their role will be to connect people rather than divide them and to create a social-educational atmosphere that encourages every individual to build good relationships with their surroundings.
As for employment, it is clear that if people sit at home without meaningful activity, serious problems will arise. Therefore institutions similar to universities will need to be established to provide every person with a path and framework for development. Participation in these frameworks during the day will be a necessary condition for receiving basic living support from the state. These different tracks will also include several hours of work in areas needed by society.
Learning will be experiential and conducted in small groups that function as miniature societies. The goal of study will be to develop a new worldview: integral, broad, and more advanced than the natural narrow egoistic outlook.
Gradually, and according to the integral method that offers a complete approach, each person will develop the feeling that they are part of one large system in which all individuals connect with one another in balance and mutual complementarity. The integral connection formed within each group will provide participants with a new horizon of development, with challenges, and a sense of a higher purpose and fulfillment. Together they will create projects that promote connection between people in fields close to their hearts: communication, media, art, culture, education, community, environment, and more.
Overall, this will be a collective effort to build a new humanity and a new type of person, an integral human being who finds fulfillment in deep connection with others instead of climbing over others on the way to the top. This will bring humanity to the next evolutionary stage as a connected system whose internal relationships match the integrality that exists throughout nature.
Everything described here will happen sooner or later, because evolutionary forces are pushing toward integration. The only question is how many blows we will need to endure, how much suffering we will experience, before we understand that by nature we are all one. After the industrial revolution and the digital revolution, the next revolution will be a revolution of perception: a social, integral revolution.
Based on “New Life 121 – The World of Work on the Time Axis” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.