Are You Prepared for a Massive Change?
The legend of the 100th monkey is the silver lining.
What in the world is the legend of 100th monkey?
It’s a book written by Ken Keyes Jr. about social change.
He wrote the story based on scientific observation of monkeys on a Northern Japanese Island of Koshima. Rather than relaying the whole story, I’ll link to 100th monkey here. The book is not copyrighted.
Ken Keyes Jr. hypothesized from the interpretation of the data written by Rupert Sheldrake that when a certain number of individuals in a group start acting in a certain way, then the behavior becomes acceptable by the majority of members in society without anyone formally teaching or introducing the idea.
In other words, a new or innovative way of doing things or behavior is learned by individuals until it reaches a “critical mass.” The idea is then communicated to the rest via the morphogenetic field. You may say that the rest of society simply morphs into the new behavior.
Seth Godin calls it the tipping point.
We, as a society, have been moving towards a new way of doing things for some time now. The old industrial era paradigm of working hard to get ahead has lost its grip on the newer generation.
What started as the hippie movement in the 1960s has quietly grown into a massive discontent with the status quo and reached a critical mass. I believe it is the spiritual energy of this critical mass that has manifested itself into the current global “crisis,” where people are beginning to question the status quo.
They’re asking: What’s more important, saving people’s lives or the “economy,” aka the wealth of the elite?
We accuse the millennials of having an entitlement mentality. Still, truthfully, like me, they believe that hard work is for the donkeys, and delayed gratification is B.S., and there has to be a better way. Some of the hippies are now in leadership roles, and they’re leading the charge toward the upcoming wave of massive change.
Hang on to your hats, folks; the ride is about to get wild.
Another feather in Sherry McGuinn’s hat, who started the silver lining challenge. I already wrote one, but this ought to give me an excuse to tag a few more writers like Fiona Sommer, Priyanka Srivastava, Julia E Hubbel, Simona, NaNa'sworld, Dipti Pande, Ryan Breen, and Rosennab.
As always, thank you for reading and responding.
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Rasheed Hooda is a published author and a regular contributor to ILLUMINATION, a writers’ community on Medium where writers support each other.
He is a self-proclaimed weirdo who lives a Freedom Lifestyle and writes about related topics — Travel (a top writer), Personal Growth, Freedom, and entrepreneurship. (Get the Newsletter)
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