Just a few days off and I come back to over 2,000 new e-mails on my office PC. I'm sure it's the same for everyone working in a large organization. If it takes an average of 3 minutes to respond to each one... and then there are the endless meetings, it IS like being on a hamster wheel, with no time to look in other directions.
Imagination, fresh ideas, spirit is squeezed out. Rudolf Steiner warned that increasing mechanization would lead more and more to the forces of materialization invading human physiology. With one's head pushed up against the screen for hours on end one might as well be plugged in directly.
"...the forces of materialization invading human physiology."
No doubt, just look at all the people sporting the cellphone ear piece clips.
I read The Secret History Of The World earlier this year and found it informative as well as engrossing. In this day and age is it possible for an individual to seek admittance into a Secret Society, or will the Secret Society always seek out individuals?
Posted by: Al | June 04, 2008 at 08:49 PM
Greetings Al, I suppose Booth would know of more than me but the most visable to me would seem the Freemasons (lodge in Covent Garden) and the Rosicrucian society -
http://www.ugle.org.uk/ - Freemasonry
http://www.rosicrucian-order.com/index.html - Rosicrucian Order
Posted by: Nick | June 04, 2008 at 10:11 PM
Salutations Nick, and thanks for the links. I'll give the sites a visit, but still wonder what Booth might have to say about my question.
Posted by: Al | June 04, 2008 at 11:10 PM
Having said that, was reading the paper earlier and one of the "candidates" on big brother let slip (the first guy in I think) let slip he was Freemason, before indulging in a wife swap.
If you listened really carefully; you could hear the collective groan from the Grand Lodge
Posted by: Nick | June 06, 2008 at 02:33 PM