“To predict is difficult, particularly about the future”. So the poets tell us. But our dilemma today is more poignant in these days of shallow faith. As the future spreads before us its exponential opportunities and promise; we humans, who are victims of our heart’s desires, find ourselves trapped in the pains of our past.
9 people out of 10 that I meet today bear, in the words of William Blake, the ‘…marks of weakness, marks of woe’. We live in a nation where the majority of people are traumatized by the abuse of their childhood. The statistics in America bear this out with 1-3 individuals nationwide, acknowledging some form of parental or societal dysfunction in their youth. More to the point the real or imagined abuse and neurotic behavior of people has become such a part of social intercourse that TV executives have found it a limitless supply of ‘entertainment’ that perpetuates the neurosis and rewards the media industry with billions of dollars.
In the natural course of capitalism’s supply and demand needs, indeed, the natural selection process of the selfish gene highlighting the golden rule of envy and malice, the social engineers of our world would acknowledge this behavior as a good thing. Particularly as ‘the people’ are content to be cannon fodder for consumer wars and fight each other over the crumbs of corporate neglect. Who but a ‘creative designer’ could have come up with such a plan?
But this is all predicated on obsessing over our lives that have past us by. Quite literally we are looking through our rear view windows while moving backwards into the future. Yet, we all crave the moments of transformation which only the present can bring. We understand that our present dictates the future, and we know from our history that our actions or lack of actions have resulted in our present dilemmas. Why then don’t we just forget the past, enjoy the present and welcome the future?
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