POSTSCRIPT
Only after the last tree has been cut
down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find money cannot be eaten.
.............Cree Prophecy
I had stated in the preface2004 that this work was
along the lines of " Reverse Engineering
of the Human Mind", something along the lines of what Voltaire was trying to do, and
although he was successful in taking apart the "religious human mind ", he could
not
fathom the pitfalls of the "scientific human mind".
And with great sadness I take note of the negative clash between the rational Voltaire
and the romantic Rousseau. If these two great contemporaries could have put their
talents together, maybe, just maybe things could have been very different today. But
that was not to be, and they bitterly opposed each other. The result was that the slight
chance of the fusion of two extremely contrary but yet equally vital aspects of human
nature, was quashed in its possibility. The possibility of the development of a bridge
of understanding between the last remains of highly developed tribal culture : the
Native American with the spearhead of civilizations : the Western Civilization.
There lies the net answer to a million questions
about human history and what we as
human beings are currently up to, as well as the future of mankind, since almost all of
us are driven by the past, reflected in our current social and cultural values, that most
of us are taught to hold as sacred, without knowing that by these values we continue
to be trapped in the past. Unfortunately, to drop the past would mean huge social
upheaval whereby a majority would have to become iconoclasts. But the resultant
vacuum would also be frightening and unsettling, and that can only be filled by
creative imagination and stories that take us out of the malaise into an imagination
driven future society. But first of all, the past has to be analysed correctly in order to
be
rid of, or else it would keep coming back to haunt us. Perhaps the burden and weight
of the past is too much for the present human condition to handle. And since this to me
at least very much seems to be the case, it then means a huge churning and even a
catastrophe awaiting us. If some of the humans survive that, will the conditions left be
worthwhile for life to continue on this planet ? Some people believe that under such
extreme conditions humans would mutate into a more physically evolved species.
But that to me only reflects childish thinking with an attempt to seek evasion from the
present mess. To those in power and plenty or to those in a state of nirvana, the
present is just a perfect time in an all encompassing evolution of the universe.
( I guess they will never know what sadness is and what is its value for a human
being ). From my own experiences and understanding, we ( mankind ) have gone
past the point where we could have prevented our own destruction. What is worse
is that no institutions of either religion or science even acknowledges this. Just a blind
acceptance of things as they are will only confirm the future as an extension of our
past, killing all possibilities of creating our own future. This applies to each one of us
individually as well as the humanity as a whole.
Unless we humans take personal as well as collective responsibility for making the
world as it is today and the direction towards it is headed, there can be no chance
of making a better world.
"Traditional people of Indian nations
have interpreted the two roads that face
the light-skinned race as the road to technology and the road to spirituality.
We feel that the road to technology.... has led modern society to a damaged
and seared earth. Could it be that the road to technology represents a rush
to destruction, and that the road to spirituality represents the slower path
that the traditional native people have traveled and are now seeking again?
The earth is not scorched on this trail. The grass is still growing there."
..............William Commanda, Mamiwinini, Canada, 1991
"The salvation of this human world
lies nowhere else than in the human heart,
in the human power to reflect, in human meekness, and in human responsibility.
Without a global revolution in... human consciousness, nothing will change for
the better, and the catastrophe toward which this world is headed ... will be
unavoidable." -..................Vaclav Havel