(Fifteen-minute read)
THIS IS A DIFFICULT SUBJECT:
In today`s tormented world, we trade off meeting one value over another.
To know your value today you need “kaleidoscope thinking,” the ability to see alternative angles and perspectives and to create new patterns of thinking that propel innovation.
However, we think of this it is what we need to do with our lives – create a value.
For better or worse we’re all habitual self-evaluators.
I’m only as good as my last achievement or success.
In a recent Beady Eye post we look at what it is to be human which with technology is going to become more and more complicated.
The value of human life is the same as it’s always been…priceless.
All down throughout history, we see that it has an arbitrary value.
Genghis Khan in his day killed 10% of the existing world population. The “Fat Man” bomb dropped on Nagasaki the end of 1945 killed from 39,000 to 80,000. Hiroshima death toll at around anything from 140000 to 90,000.
Climate change has the potential to kill us all within seven years so perhaps it is not a good time to be thinking we have a value.
Anyway vastly increased access to transportable information it makes it both easier and more difficult to define value.
Technology will not only shape the way they live and work but also created a whole new set of beliefs, fears and aspirations. These values, in turn, will affect our approach to the global challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
But it’s more than just the way we use technology.
Our value will be invested in “psychological self-determination.” self-acceptance.
Our desire in regard to participation, expression, identity, and quality of life—all values which are espoused by organizations, but largely ignored in practice as organizations continue to focus on reducing fixed labour costs and increasing profits.
Your fate is now inextricably bound to the collective success of global giants like Microsoft, Apple, Amazon all the way down to the bottom line.
Technology is creating a new gender gap as young men and women value their role differently in their lives.
This is a total disaster, all our fault willing allowing our private data to be harvest every moment of our living lives.
The next generation will be the first generation to be worse off than their parents, yet they are still expected to pick up the tab for the planet’s problems, including an ageing population, global debt and climate change.
So let’s look at a few of the things we might use to find a value today.
How should we set a value upon each other?
FROM A RELIGIOUS POINT OF VIEW:
If one takes a dispassionate look at religion it is mostly concerned with texts, scriptures, dogma, and trying to validate events within the history of that religion.
All of this is already reinforced by the law of the land right?
No Geographical Boundaries.
FROM A SOCIAL MEDIA POINT OF VIEW:
Figures of daily traffic pulled by these sites are enough, for anyone to realize the power and influence that social media commands over inhabitants of our world, both virtual and physical. Power and importance of social media in today’s world are such that it has been included in the curriculum of almost any kind of school all over the globe.
No Geographical Boundaries.
FROM A MONETARY VIEW.
You don’t have to look far: Inequality
FROM A GOVERNMENT VIEW.
A lot of the world is make-believe. We’re only aware of a fraction of what’s going on.
GDP before looking after its people.
FROM A HEURISTIC BELIEF.
I’m worthwhile merely because “I am I, I exist, and I am alive”
(A heuristic is a mental shortcut that allows an individual to make a decision, pass judgment, or solve a problem quickly and with the least amount of mental effort. As humans move throughout the world, they must process large amounts of information and make many choices within limited amounts of time. When information is missing, or an immediate decision is necessary, heuristics act as “rules of thumb” that guide behaviour down the most efficient pathway.)
Thoroughly rejects the belief that my worth has anything to do with my performances, achievements or successes in life! It asserts “a bad act is not a bad me, nor is a good act a good me.” It implies that there are no bad people, no evil people; only bad behaviours or evil behaviours.
This belief is not without boundaries.
FROM A SOCIAL CONTRACT VIEW THAT BINDS US:
Means society must reserve the right of forced hospitalization, incarceration, even capital punishment for those with markedly diminished levels of rational autonomy, which is the essence of sanity in a world where evolution and consensus dictate that life is better than death, sanity is better than insanity, health is better than disease, love is better than hate, good is better than evil, and so forth!
FROM A CAPITALISTIC/ SOCIALIST/COMMUNIST VIEW:
Their work is worthwhile and that their efforts are being recognised, and value similar things in an employer brand to a consumer brand.
FROM A MORAL VIEW:
Beware of transgressing the other person’s morals, as this is particularly how they will value you.
FROM A NEBULOUS QUANTUM FUTURE VIEW:
Two states at the one time. Where is the value that?
If we truly saw the value of people.
I am worthwhile because I exist, I am I, and I am alive.”
I will repeat this powerful new mantra to live by in hope of it finding an audience willing to adopt it as a mantra capable of creating a healthy transformation by coming alive within us.
So valuating yourself will be only an intrinsic value that climate
change will expose.
Perhaps most telling, try Googling it. What is my value?
You probably get an answer from an Algorithm.
Mouse over the value to see the full definition. Worthless.
Don’t take your values to heart as Facebook wants to develop brain-reading technology. The consequences of which will be serious for all our values with our interiors becoming a thing of the past, rubbing out the distinction between mind and machine.
Sometimes values can be complementary and sometimes they can compete with each other.
You have to value your life for someone else to value it and need to value others for them to value yours.
There is only one overall value for all humans or forthcoming robots to pursue.
To create a clean and sustainable world for the generations that follow us.
All human comments appreciated. All like clicking and abuse chucked in the bin.
Should the value of life be variable depending on age? UTILITARIANISM.
