One possible consequence of these accelerated times might be the stubbornly undying need for religion. Any given religion is the fastest way for one to obtain an explanation of the world and tranquilize the restless human minds, while our top brains keep on enquiring what the heck this world is all about, dying with probably more doubts than when they first started their investigations.
The New Age religions seem to have found some ground, a niche, in these speedy times to progress, while also using crumbling older religions as fertilizer. The fields to be planted are wide, open and hungry, long rows of vegetables practising their divine given ability to vegetate. The need for reassurance about the purpose of life, or about the superiority in comparison to other living forms, or for a nurturing figure akin to a make-believe friend that can be carried on to adulthood, are some of the things a good religion knows how to explore.
Everything is much faster and now one, after a fast training, can send cosmic energy and instantly revive or cure someone who can even be one's antipode. No need to travel many miles and spend time taking care of that person anymore, thank God! And this is quite an unbelievable economy of time and resources.
I'm also in the profound belief that these new energy emitters are the ones truly responsible for global climate change after all, with their energy disturbing Earth's precarious balance, heating up the atmosphere, only that such evidence has been neglected by researchers. Maybe they're even the true reason behind a new change of the magnetic flux.
It seems to be much faster and easier to believe than to keep on doubting, according to the economics of the brain.
Another and darker consequence is the resort to drugs as an instant way of obtaining satisfaction and illumination. No wonder the number of these converts is 25 million nowadays, according to the UN cabinet against drugs and crime. Unfortunately this divine method is only available to those who have endless financial resources or endless financial victims. Thus five or six more times people have to rely on pink elephants to solve their existential problems. The rest of drug addicts are just like myself, and keep on waiting for a revelation during or after each cigarette, our incense sticks, ignoring our own Bible’s quotes on each pack of nails for our final cross, and true illumination coming only in the form of a lighter.
