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I'm not sure that I want to be mindful of man at this point in time. I am grieving for the stupidity of men, and it is mainly men who seem to believe control and ownership constitutes life. Our combined bloodied histories are screaming at us, the earth itself is also screaming at us to wake up from this stupidity.
There is enough for everyone here on this planet, not more than enough. Greed is a bitter root. Commodifying everything and everyone, numbering, counting, comparing, it is all a dead end.
Grief is overwhelming us. I also feel ashamed that some reporters have said this war should not be happening in the civilised world, as though only the Northern hemisphere is populated by civilised humans! So much for civilisation.
It is not just humans that suffer when war over ownership of lands and borders lead to destruction. The land suffers, the flora, fauna, water and air suffers. The planet suffers.
When will we get it ? Life is brief, it is precious, wonderful, beautiful, and we live it with our more than human soulmates that are here for the living too. The brevity, and the sadness of life coming to an end early is something that is hard enough without men bringing it to a violent end sooner.
Wars and rumours of wars persist. But am I deluded in feeling that there is a groundswell of humans that have had enough of our stupidity ?
Paul.
No. The overriding response to all this is one of sadness and puzzlement. No one wants it, no one understands it and everyone wants it to stop. Everyone is sick of stupidity, you are right, everyone is scared of what stupidity can do. But will not be beaten by it. Stay strong. X
ReplyDeleteThank you Sara, you too x
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