We can only succeed if we are one
It seems to me South Africa will fall. And so will the once-great West. And so will most of the world as we know it.
I t ’ s h a p p e n i n g a l r e a d y . We humans, as a species, are just too many. We have gone too far into complex systems of oppression, suppression, hatred, categorisation and mental and financial slavery.
I sometimes wonder if there is a social algorithm that favours the cruel and the stupid.
We have pushed the karmic and resource boundaries of our planet too far. We believe we are better than other people. We have lost the magical connection with our fellow humans and our fellow nonhuman earthlings.
This quagmire i ncludes many things. Fees must fall. Jacob Zuma. Almost every other leader in almost every country. Black lives (not) matter(ing). Brexit. Syria. Russia. The Muslim world. The Western world. Invented terrorism. Real terrorism. India and Pakistan on their way to a war over water. Palestine and its occupier. The industrial meat industry. Trade agreements that destroy producers to make purchases dirt-cheap elsewhere.
And it’s all because we will not accept a truth other than what we see from our own standpoint. We can’t conceive that, though I may be right from my world view, the other may also be right from their world view.
I can only pray that from the ashes a new world will be born. I hope for the end of religious division, but even without religion we would divide ourselves by race and gender and our likes and dislikes. We are not as smart as we imagine. We must fall.
Unless of course an event moves us to change — collectively. It would have to be something that moves us to see truly who and what is around us. It’s not a matter of us and them: it’s just us. —