Hear Our Song

Hear Our Song

We all live in an astounding moment in time.

Never before in the history of our species

have so many people been so connected to each other.

Never before have we all been as able

to tell one another about our lives, our hopes,

aspirations, worries, and our dreams for humanity.

Never before have we all been so able

to pass on knowledge and wisdom among ourselves.

Never before in the history of our species

have the governments and companies

we've created been handed such a powerful means

of surveillance and monitoring of all aspects of our lives.

Never before in the history of our species

has our technological prowess

been expanding at such a astounding rate.

Never before has our species had such a profound

impact upon the entire biosphere of Mother Earth.

Never before in the history of our species

has the question of our continued existence

been so unsettled by the consequences

of our own behavior.

Never before has as the potential for finding solutions

to the problems facing humanity been given so completely

into the hands of each and everyone of us.

Sometime in the next one-hundred and fifty years

we will have passed a crucial crossroads in human evolution.

Depending upon which path we have chosen,

our civilization will either utterly fail

and we will have to start over from scratch,

or we will have learned to peacefully co-exist

here on Mother Earth with all our brother and sister lifeforms;

We will have learned to use our existence

as benefactors and custodians of our grand biosphere.

Everyone alive today

is living at an absolutely crucial time for our species.

It is upon us and the next few generations

to determine the question of whether our civilization

will continue on or perish in the sands of time.

In order to give the best chances to the hard work

the next few generations will face,

it is essential that the generation living right now

give the very best advice,

knowledge and wisdom that we can

to those who come after us.

The say, my friends, that desperate times

require furious dancing---

Anyone and everyone who is creative

in any fashion whatsoever

must let the songs of their creativity now be heard.

Now is the time to bring our voices together.

Now is the time to reach far into the diversity of our cultures

and far into the wisdom of our heritage.

Now is the time for the grand sum of human ingenuity,

technological genius, and artistic creativity

to sing so strongly that the most distant stars

deep, deep in the silver dusted night sky

hear our luminous song.

Dewey Dirks