Coming to a Theater in You
I have a fairly simple philosophy about life. I believe that there is a larger reality that encompasses god and the cosmos, and is just a shade over the horizon of our perception and understanding. But we are getting close, and soon will be revealed the very meaning of life.
But first, we are entering a compost era, when we will make mulch out of much of our past and thinking...culling most of the inanity and insanity, and charting some intelligent directions for the benefit of our future. And not just our future. It is in our roots to think further and wiser. Let us remember our native forebears.
The Iroquois nation was a confederation of tribes living in what is now northern and western New York. Issues that effected more than one tribe were decided by a council of chiefs, each appointed by the matriarch of the individual tribes. These chiefs would consider issues in a very different way from the trading of special interests that dominates politics today. It wasn't about you can hunt in my forest if I can fish in your stream. Instead, they decided all issues on the basis of a single criterion. What ever action they took had to benefit the sixth succeeding generation.
And see, I think that we need to all be thinking that way, that is, clearly about what we are going. For instance, it doesn’t make sense to build on landfill that’s polluted and will have to be excavated. It doesn’t make sense to spend gazillions of dollars on packaging that will merely wind up looking for land to fill. It doesn’t make sense that we are greedily seeking to acquire things that we don’t even need. The cost is human decency.
So one of the things that’s got to go is the capitalism-outta-control notion that the person who dies with the most toys wins. We’re bigger than that. We’re on this planet for a purpose that beyond measure exceeds Mercedes and BMW. People have far greater potential than building and filling garages, after all.
We are extraordinary creatures with untapped minds. What could we create if we took off the blinders? Imagine what would happen if we discarded the presumptive hallmarks of success, and truly considered what is possible. I think it would blow your mind. Well, at least expand it.
The essence of the transformation in which we find ourselves on the cusp is that we will change our social structure to reflect an updated view of what it means to be a human being. We are operating well beneath our capacity, like living life moving around on all fours. Okay, we learned how to walk. What do you suppose is next?
And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.
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