Sunday, February 23, 2014

Outlook Twenty-Fourteen

Outlook Twenty-Fourteen

We all live
in quickly
aging cultures
where many
work-a-day
people have
a much better
eyeball on
what is
important in life
than the people
who are supposed
be running
the place.

That's because
as the ruling classes
have become
ever more intrenched
in the delusions
of amassing
money and power
they have also become
ever more detached
from compassion
for their fellow man.

Such problems
have long faced
human cultures
as they have grown
larger and older.
While several societies
around the globe
have lasted for
thousands of years,
the successive governments
that oversee those cultures,
grew so creaky with time,
that they underwent
major re-organizations
periodically.

No large scale
human government
has ever been able
to last more than around
four hundred years
without grinding to a halt
and requiring
major reorganization
and repair
in order to rid it
of excessive corruption
and unjust indifference
towards its own citizens.

Here in the early 21st century
societies all round the globe
are facing similar problems
with corrupt and unjust
governments
badly in need
of reorganization
and repair.
History tells us
the weight of their
own corruption
and indifference
will cause them to fail,
probably sooner
rather than later
considering
the damage
they and the corporations
they work for
have been wrecking
upon the environment
around us.

Humanity
is a very resilient
and adaptive species.
We will, in all likelihood,
survive the ineptness
of our existing governments,
but the institutions that
currently rule us
will all probably fail
sometime during
the next
one hundred and fifty
years.

The resourcefulness
of humanity
and the hope,
love, compassion,
and common sense
distributed widely
among mankind
will soon have
the opportunity
once again to build
better governments
for ourselves.
Help us Earth Mother
to succeed
in the work before us.

Dewey Dirks

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