interlinkings

There are forces at work in the transformation of life on this planet that make the efforts and travesties of governments, nations, countries and their panoply of bureaucrats, politicians, power brokers, archists and anarchists, great women, great men, the smug, arrogant, and greedy, develers and developers, entrepreneurs, shuckers and jivers, philanthopists, religious groups, terrorists, terra-ists, neo-hippies, the sleek, the slick, and the workers of legerdemain seem blustery, naive, self-serving, and of little consequence. We can't even feed the hungry, for earth's sake!

I am not advocating that this turmoil of action and inaction cease. We will keep on doing and not doing in both admirable and despicable ways.

I simply point to the understanding that as relative newcomers to this Grand Adventure (4000 or 15 billion years or so, depending on your metaphorical frame, either one being a mere bubble on the surface of the boundless ocean of being), we have no idea of what is going on, no program agenda, except that catastrophe always seems to follow resurrection (or is that the other way around?), but do seem to have settled on one agreement, which so far I have yet to see on a bumper sticker: SAVE OUR BUTTS! We are finding out the hard way that our butts are interlinked (now there's some graphic imagery) and with all the other butts of the visible and invisible universe.

I don't know that our system of shrivel-ization based on money, private property, the divine rights of landed gentry, and the accelerated threat of force and violence is going to be able to handle all this.Something new has to be born.