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Sheep Think
Copyright © Grant Lawrence (2004)
Our natural system seeks homeostasis or some sort of balance. There is no particular caring or feeling for any of its interactive systems, rather varying plant and animal species will evolve based on their relationship with the rest of the environment.
Humans are a part of this system and we can consciously learn to live and adapt to the system by choosing to live in greater harmony with the rest of life. Or, we can continue to act with a limited awareness and conduct our present pattern which is not to see that our overwhelming growth (population and technological success) minus an awareness of the importance of our ecological relatedness will bring about a great deal of unnecessary mass suffering or possibly extinction.
The problem is that our awareness is clouded by so much make believe and fantasy offered by simplistic religious, economic, nationalistic, and societal (sheep think) doctrines which have little relationship to reality. It is easy enough to see that a part of any system that becomes too successful at the expense of the rest of the system will encounter a rebalancing effect that will bring that part into line or it will destroy the system. We experience this in our own bodies and so does every system or structure that goes into making up what we know of material life. This is no great mystery but we live in a false paradigm of humanity as not being interconnected and interdependent and our illusions or ignorance is having tremendous consequences on our sustainability and quality of human life.
Our consciousness either expands with our technology or we will follow a natural pattern of rebalancing that has no care or concern for the tremendous suffering that will follow. Yet, we can see our relationship with the rest of life and compassionately and consciously choose actions that will bring a greater quality of life and help assure a place for humanity far into the future.
No one will save us from making wise or foolish choices. That responsibility is ours and it is facing us dead in the face.
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