Deep Simplicity

Talking about this stuff makes me think of the Tower of Babel, Horses and the Amish.

Let me explain...

The flood happened a while back and Noah and all his gang left the boat, set out across what is Mesopotamia and multiplied like a bunch of middle eastern bunnies.

Slowly they move east and come to "the plane of shinara". forget the industrial revolution, this is where the first technology boom happens. They figure out how to make bricks, then morter then real buildings and a city. In this city they decided to make a building that can reach to the heavens so that they can "make a name for themselves."

It's human nature to do this. To build, to create, to advance more and more. We count this as success and a sign that we are better then once were. Think about it, the most "developed" societies are the ones with the most tech.

But God takes issue with this view.

Gen 11 says;
But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them." So he changes the language and scatters them all around.


Growing up I learned this story as a working against doing something before asking God if I should. But i think what it really is is a view into God's thinking on progression and technology.

"nothing they plan will be impossible for them"

we would say this is great. We want to be limitless, especially in our ability to create. But maby what were really trying to be is our own Gods. Limitless, in need of nothing and no one. All powerful.

Since the beginning of the industrial revolution in 1800 our ability has been growing at an exponential rate. We live longer, go further, make faster. But the question maybe is not what can we do but what do we do with it all.

-in the last 100 years more people have been killed in war and genocide then in the previous 4000 years combined.





- Each day over 80'000 ares of forest are destroyed







-there is most slavery today then at any other time in history








- there is more economic inequality now then at any other time in history (20% own 80% of the wealth and 30% own 94%)

Maby God had something better planned for his people then advancement. And mabey focusing on that makes us loose site of what that is.