higher standard of living.
Where research is undertaken with the best of intentions, results cannot be hidden. New technologies inevitably come
under the scrutiny of the power hungry, if only through being marketed or widely used. Most often technology is
patented, and thus comes under scrutiny early in the process. Money is used as the vehicle to gain control of new
technology, with the establishment offering lures, rather than threats. Frank takeovers are rarely attempted, as the same results can be achieved in ways that draw less attention. Talk to the inventor who refused to allow himself to be
bought, and a different picture is drawn. Competition may be structured such that the inventor finds himself without a
market, with the aim that he should capitulate. The invention may be stolen and used, as those without money can
scarcely object effectively in the courts.
If a new technology can be used to boost weapons, the military has means at their disposal which allow them to simply
confiscate the technology. If the technology simply offers a higher standard of living, then those in the establishment,
corporate giants, will use every means at their disposal to reap profits from mankind's eager adoption of the
technology. This is usually masked as a joint arrangement with the inventor, but should one scrutinize the record, most
often the inventor is barely rewarded and the takeover artists become wealthy. The price for any new invention is then
placed at what the market will bear, to maximize profits, so mankind in the end does not benefit as the inventor had
hoped.
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ZetaTalk: Hippocratic Oath
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ZetaTalk: Hippocratic Oath
Note: written by Jul 15, 1995
The medical needs of your country have been increasing, but this has been in response to the medical advances made.
As you learn how to keep the human body alive, when born younger as in prematurity or aging far past the point of no
return, the philosophy of the medical community has been that all life at all costs must be saved. Of course, the cost is to be born by someone else, and they are at least indirectly the recipient, so the philosophy is not without self interest.
The philosophy, Hippocratic Oath, is such that this will not change overnight. Legalizing suicide and making common
sense determinations on when to pull the plug on a comatose geriatric case and when to go to heroic efforts to save a
tiny premature baby who will in all likelihood be brain damaged will not be forthcoming anytime soon. The conflict
will continue.
The medical community will be caught, in our opinion, between opposing forces over the next decade. On the one
hand the trend we just described will continue, as medical advances are going to keep coming. On the other hand are
the tight budgets experienced on many levels. The tax payer finds himself increasingly out of a job and finding
employment only on the basis that he provide himself with benefits, which usually equates to no medical benefits. The
federal and state governments toss the issue of who is responsible back and forth, all the while letting the big boys who run the corporations off the hook. Socialized medicine will eventually arrive in the US, and common sense will
eventually prevail not as a changed philosophy but as procedures where delays are such that patients held from death
by a thread will die before treatment arrives.
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ZetaTalk: Career Choices
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ZetaTalk: Career Choices
Note: written on Jun 15, 1996
Lifelong endeavors, contrary to the usual assumption, are not typically career choices. Humankind, struggling to
survive in most places, is forced into activities by either their physical location, their sex, or their native abilities.
Primitive groups hunting and gathering left the females out of the hunting party so as not to distract the males.
Physical strength in farming communities presses the young men into service, using their bodies, not their minds.
Young women likely to become pregnant are pressed into activities that pregnant women can handle, in anticipation of
their future state. Leadership falls to tall, large men almost invariably, as tradition has established them as the winners in physical contests, precursors to the verbal politics of today. Thus, most humans do not choose their occupations, they make the best of what they are presented with.
However, where a leisure class has developed or industrialization has provided food without the constant necessity to
farm, choice is possible. Choice usually runs into tradition, with tradition winning, and this is much played out in the
media. Given that an individual is indeed free to make a choice, is not required to take the best paying possibility in
order to support dependents or is not threatened with loss of family or community support if they make an independent
choice, then another drama ensues. Depending on their orientation, Service-to-Self or Service-to-Other, they will
choose in the following manner.
If leaning toward Service-to-Self, the individual will seek a position that gives them power and control over
others. This may be disguised as serving others, as for instance joining the religious elite may be disguised as
saving souls, but in fact is an opportunity to dominate others while intruding into their personal lives, a power
trip. They will seek positions of power where few can resist, such as teaching the young in a military school, or
acting as warden over a prison colony. Power and the desire to control others will take precedence over wealth
and comfort, but this is the second priority.
If leaning toward Service-to-Others, the individual will ponder what the needs of those around them are, and
how their talents might best serve. Since those in the Service-to-Others are not without self interest, the
occupational choice will undoubtedly include those activities that the individual enjoys. This is not a conflict of
interest but a merging of interests, a win-win situation. Where there is a conflict, due to strong need in the
community, the budding Service-to-Others individual will sacrifice his comfort and enjoyment, becoming the
one to repair the sewer mains to prevent infection in the community if no one else is filling this need, for
instance. Meeting the needs of the community takes precedence, where a choice is to be made.
If of a mixed orientation, undecided, the spiritually immature individual will tend to focus on comforts and
status, seeking lucrative occupations with lots of leisure time and where one can be on center stage getting
applause. If the choice happens to give the individual control over others, they scarcely notice except that this
may allows them to foist work onto others and increase their leisure time. If the choice happens to allow the
individual to help the community, they are happy to take bows and applause, and may even seek such activity