Too Late?

2005:

Wasn’t it the shillyshallying White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland who was rushing against the clock, “too late”, and we find that funny even though we carry on in much the same way in this oh so serious world. It’s ridiculous the way we rush about looking as if we’re achieving things when in fact we aren’t.

In comedy and comics, the adventures of humans are ridiculed and we all laugh. But that teaches us less than we think, since we continue to perpetuate the same mistakes, over and over again. We won’t get serious, we must keep laughing to show we’re happy (when we’re not!). We won’t apply history’s lessons to help govern our society. What happened in the past doesn’t seem to relate to today’s problems. We ask, “what has history to teach us about today?”

We’re so dazzled by technology that we ignore any matters not interesting enough. But here we are in 2017, overwhelmed and feeling as though we’re standing on the brink of an abyss, without a hand to hold onto. We feel abandoned, so what do we do? Do we wait for things to change? Shouldn’t we be the ones initiating change?

It feels safer to stay as we are, with no change. We continue to believe that human-domination is the only way to go. We act just like the kids did in Lord of the Flies, giving-in to the savage in us. We refuse to let history shake us up. We are determinedly modern, and to prove it we destroy our relationship with Nature, and often with one another too. We are still determined to be the dominant ones (even in our human relationships) but the clock ticks on. Too late, too late, we fear. We face an up-coming challenge to our dominant attitudes. Most of us would like to think we could rise to that challenge when it comes. It’s never too late to stop being so dominant.