> 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