Revolutions

Looking at our history, several times we had reached a point in one or another topic, where we had to make a fundamental shift. The old, traditional way had reached it's limit – to go beyond it a completely new approach was needed. Usually what happened, though, was that the folks believing or having a vested interest in and following the “old way” didn't want the change. The fought tooth and nail to continue the tradition. However, there was too much pressure built up to force the change through anyhow. Such a dramatic change, or the struggle to implement it, we call a “Revolution”.
One such revolution happened about five six centuries ago in Europe. Until then, the monks were the conveyors of information. Their mystical explanations of our material world, however, did not meet the observations of some educated non-clergy. The result of that revolution was the birth of the sciences.
Another type of revolution started to happen in the 1700s and continued until the early 1900s. The masses of the population was suppressed and unable to life a fulfilled life, due to the form of government. When the need for being able to make something of their lives became to big in the people, the political revolutions were fought. In many parts of Europe these revolutions replaced monarchy with democracy. In then European colonies, these struggles brought independence and self-government.
In the late 1800s the industrial revolution started. Manual production was too costly, in terms of how much human-resource was needed. The discovery of how to employ natural energy to help in the process of creating goods, allowed the dramatic shift in standard of living, that occurred in the last 100 years.
And the late 1900s brought the computer and the Internet. The old way of communicating and of storing and making information available had reached it's limits. Today, anybody in the world, who has Internet access has access to more information right in their living-room, than is stored in the library of congress!
Albert Einstein once sad something like: to find a solution for a problem it takes a smarter mind than the one that created it. Looking at all the problems we have currently in our world, we have the knowhow and ability to fix every single one of them! The only thing that is missing is the will to do so. A fundamental shift in our priorities is needed, our goals, and our definitions of successful, fulfilled have to change dramatically. We need a Spiritual Revolution.