Reading harold_maude's journal

Night before last I was thinking about the ant I killed and what that did to me, and then other things began to stir.
It occured to me that we, here and now are the hope and trust of the future.

What we do now will be the inheritance we leave our children's children.
It occured to me and made me wonder if what is going on in the world is going to make the world an unlivable place for them or if wisdom is possible so that there will be a livable place for them to exist in.

I considered the rate of consumption of natural resources, and the rate that things in almost new condition are thrown away.
I considered the third world as it's refered to by the affluent one and wondered if all the things that come under the heading of aid, including, by some, what has happened in Iraq.
I put the war in that catagory for this reason, the reason given for us going to war was to free the people from tyrany and oppression.
That would be condsidered aid from the stand point that aid is designed to help people who are in a desperate situation or destute situation that can't help themselves.

Now from my perspective, the war wasn't about helping thoes people to get free from tyrany, but rather to gain control of more of the world's oil, which would be aid to the very wealthy.
Kind of a sick twist on the idea of aid.

Anyway, as I was thinking and pondering all of this, it occured to me that no one with the power and money to change what is being done here and now that is so distructive is wanting to do anything about the status quo.
No greedy rich corporate executive or no power hungry goverment leader is going to go without or less just to make things better for the future.
The only concern is the here and now.

It reminds me of a line from Juassic Park where Malcom says about the sienctists who stood on the shoulders of thoes who did the genetic research on the diasaurs, "They knew they could but did they ever thing whether or not they should"

What an intense sentament. The same could be said of the place in our history where the technology out ran the wisdom needed to keep people from doing distructive things.
We, at this point in history, are like children holding bazookas and know how to shoot them but don't understand that when we do we distroy so much.

There is no wisdom in what is being developed in so many things.
Take a look at all the drugs that are now being released to the public. The end result isn't completely known. And some of thoes drugs carry worse side effects than the problem their designed to bandaid.

The real problem is that we have become such a microwave society that there is no thinking things through to the possible end conclusion and then deciding if going through with it is really worth what it will do.

I wonder if the Right Brothers had realized the ultimate end of what their work on flying would bring, the atom bomb being able to be dropped from a plane, if they would have proceeded with their persute of conquoring the air.

I wonder if when Alber Enstine was a patton clerk, he could have seen into the future and know that he would be in part responsible for millions of death by makeing the atom bomb possible, if he would have chose to stay a patton clerk or not.

We are at a place where it's very possible to know what the future will be. We understand how fast the technology is growing and that so many things are possible.
But we forget that it is our nature to be warring creatures.
And so we keep making more things that take us further and further away from reason and wisdom.

And we are paying for it. Much of the food we eat is dead. It's been so geneticly altered and processed that any value is gone.
There are no vaible seeds comming from this "food" as it's grown.
The seed that is viable is nearning the time when it will be no longer useful.
There are people out there working to preserve species of plants and foodstuffs, and that is hopeful for the future.
But it will only remain so until the corporate farms completely wipe away the individual farmer, and the organic farmer.

Right now getting organic food is a very in thing to do.
I call that the yuppism of health food.
There is no real push to change. It's far to easy to just buy the food from some health food store and do nothing else.

It's too easy to let that food go to waste. It's too easy to shop for the latest fashion and disgard things we tire too easily from.
There is no thought for what we are really doing.
Our children are learning that having a credit card answers the impulse wants too easily.
There is no responsiblity.
And a whole generation of children are growing up believing that the only place to buy food is at a store, and that they just have to have that splashy sparkly thing a ma jig now.
In a little while they will weary of it, and then demand the latest and newest thing.

Our future. Our childrens children. They are in need of us using wisdom in how we treat the earth. We are only the caretakers of it and not the owners.
We are the temporary inhabitants of what they will inherit.
My question is this, will what they inherit kill them or give them an example of how to take care of this fragil place we call home.

It only looks that way because your standing on your head.