Sirens – part one (of two)

Would you like to come on a short journey, up? Up in the heavens, between four imaginary planets, each one representing different dimensions of human experience; as if we’ve at some time been familiar with travelling between the four planets mentioned below, and we are acquainted with each one.
On this quick interplanetary journey we’ll zing past two planets and start heading for the next one (up the track). We leave behind Planet E, Earth (the human dominated planet), past Planet O (where objects dominate) to the third planet, Planet M (where moral ideas dominate). These three planets we know well. Each one is attractive, each one lures us like sirens.
We’ve all travelled between these three planets, and hold nostalgia for each one. Take this last one – the morality planet – where we’ve learnt our moral imperatives. The main damage done by this planet is to confuse our role as guardians. And that damage has interfered dramatically with our relation to the other two planets.
Humans like looking after things, they’re good at it, and in many ways they do it brilliantly. So this is not something humans have a lot of trouble with. Except that this skill has been warped by the sirens on Planet M. These sirens seduce us into doublethinking and certain types of addiction which prevent us from clear thinking. On Planet M we learn practical things - how to survive, how to enjoy life morally … even when it’s obviously NOT moral. The doublethink of Planet M exerts a force on us and we have to grapple with it. We might feel attached to it, get nostalgic for it (when we’re elsewhere), and as we grow older we come to overlook its inconsistency and the nonsense of its doublethink.
When visiting the other planets we impose our damaged logic on innocent inhabitants. Objects, animals, environment all suffer from what we do. The way we behave fractures the fundamental laws of Nature. The damage humans do, especially when enslaving animals, contravenes such primary laws that it takes the very oxygen out of the atmosphere, making it almost impossible to breathe. That makes all the other damage we do seem relatively insignificant, but in total it all adds up to The Big Problem of Humanity.
To solve it we have to look behind it. (To be continued …)