BLOG OF ELOY ROY - EVERYBODY GOES TO HEAVEN

   This is something known, that consumption is the secret to economic growth. But when we reach a point when we live so as to consume instead of consuming so as to live, consumption transforms itself into a real cancer which brings society directly to its self-destruction.          Because by consuming like insatiable animals, we fatten up those who devour us: the Banks, the multinationals, the fiscal paradises (with their 32 trillion dollars slipped between the fingers of the income tax!) and all the powerful lobbyists who, to fill up the pockets of their stockholders, lead by the nose the economy, and so politics, of all the countries of the world. That is how our unbridled consumption goes on seeing records of obeseness among those who constitute the 1% of the human fauna and condemns the rest of the world to a dry diet.                The more we b...

Submitted to the law of growth, the living realizes oneself only by steps, in a progressive way, most of the time without any shock, but at times by starts or even by explosions. The adult is already present in the child, but the adult shows up only after a long series of transformations. From the womb of the mother up to the sepulchre, we become other while never stopping from being who we are. What is true for the individual is also true for the whole of mankind. Because mankind is alive, it is in the process of perpetual growth. Like each individual, it goes from childhood to maturity. Emerging from the deep night of the unconscious, it proceeds very slowly to full consciousness. Humanity is going through an « evolution ». When it will reach the height of that long process of transformation, mankind will begin to decline and finally die away. Still, it is possible that mankind would not die away, because somewhere at the heart of our being, throbs an in...