How are we to use our unique intelligence? Just to be a little more
skilled at this and a little more knowing at that? Or is there more
still?

So, anyway, we set off, circumscribed and defined by our culture and
our creativity. Were we aware that we were a unique creature engaged
in a colonisation of the planet? I don't see it. At every point our
own range of human response - religious, artistic, political - seems
to have served our needs.

But not knowing anything of our evolution, of our connection to the
chain of life, of our global reach, of the genesis of the globe
itself, of the universe, of our essential individuality...we were
doomed to endless error. Such was the nature of our colonisation, shot
through with error and opprrssion.

Andf then - quite recently - we found a way through. We embraced
technology, permitted knowledge and established freedom in many
places. So now what? Do we still just respond to circumstances - as
we have always done - or do we take a deeper view of ourselves?

But maybe we are wired to respond to our own creations? Maybe we are
incapable of responding to the fact of our uniqueness in the chain of
being? Or will there come at some stage a shift in our response, a
gradual acceptance and valorisation of our potential - and destiny -
as a species? And if such a shift is to come will it be mediated by
Asperger-like people who fail to be awed by the flawed products of our
creativity and cling instead to a dogged truth?

Joseph Humming