Looking Up

Ahhhh! (deep sigh!) Ever since I was pre-teen, that question has haunted me and shaped my life, for better or worse. Unless someone is grossly psychologically abnormal, no one likes to be hurt, or to hurt others. I would take that as a given. And yet, from childhood on up to today, at 70 years, most of my reading, history and observation has dealt with the problem of pain – pain inflicted and pain received – the one constant throughout our history and one’s life. We live in a pain inducing environment whose mindset is primarily that of the predator and prey. Even the most intelligent and aware individuals I’ve met accept this as normal. Religion explains it as the work of Satan. Darwinism as the “food chain” in the evolutionary process. Most see the flattened squirrel on the street, consume their burger and watch their news about another bombing and dozens dead without ever thinking about the cause of this. Every problem – if we just could admit it was a problem – has a source cause. Before we can ever move forward as an intelligent, sentient and self-aware species we need to come to grips with the problem of predation: an evil imposition or a natural process? Clue: if it was natural we would not be discussing it, and no one would be opposed to death and destruction. It would be the predator seeking and capturing its prey, nothing more. No emotions around it, it’s how it is. But we vacillate around it, meaning we’re not totally comfortable with it. The problem, I perceive, lies in our acceptance of the predatory mindset. Somewhere in the infinite cosmos, there are minds analyzing lesser minds, watching us, waiting for us to choose on this primal thing: the rejection of predation and the choice to become empathetic beings.

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I had watched the Stanley Milgram experiment documentary already – didn’t know about the other ones. So, “somebody” designed these micro experiments. Who designed the macro experiment involving all of earth? Who’s the authority controlling the authoritarians who in turn inflict their will upon a subdued majority world-wide, and since civilization began? What is going on here? Are we actually dealing with a Matrix whose survival depends upon the subjection and torture of entire races of sentient beings? What if? My Teachers called them the “Time Lords” and claimed they mind-controlled most of this universe. How evil are they I asked? “Think Morgoth Bauglir, or Sauron” they replied, knowing I’d make the connection being a fan of J. R. R. Tolkien writings. How do we defeat these Powers, I asked? “Evil can only be defeated through acceptance of compassion as a way of life, such leading to the re-connection of the lost sense of empathy. It is a personal choice, one that can never be successfully implemented collectively. To become compassion one must also choose self-empowerment as her or his own life’s path.” To deliberately choose to walk alone is never a popular choice among a species as gregarious as are the earth type humans, thus explaining why they have never been able to break free of their tendency to choose, and submit to, sociopathic leaders for themselves. Whatever the inducements or possibilities in self empowerment, who chooses to walk alone? As the Scots would jokingly say, “Damn few and they’re all daid!”

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