Sleepwalking Through History

Obama says a second economic stimulus isn’t necessary. What else can he say?

Keeping the current flowing to the Frankenstein monster of global finance has sapped the capacity of the system to respond in any meaningful way to all the other problems we face and still won’t fix anything, because the people in charge are scared and have no vision. (We could call them corrupt, assign foul motives, but what good would that do?) Nothing will ever be the way it was, despite all forced “hope” to make it so. Failure is a feature of the system, not a bug. With each day that passes, we lose more flexibility. Meanwhile, the imbalances build. Despite incremental improvements here and there, like the rising green consciousness, there’s no “fix” on the horizon for just about any issue one could name. It’s more a question of evolution instead of logic.

We may in fact be on the cusp of something new, although we won’t recognize it until well after the fact. Even in the “green” world, no one is envisioning a seriously altered lifestyle, just a saner version of the old insanity. We still imagine that our security consists of things, only smaller ones, perhaps, or made of better stuff. All this is ripples on the surface, however. We mistake the patterns for the sea. But what if a new (to us) kind of intelligence came into the mix? Could we in our present state even recognize it?

Case in point:

I urge you to visit this page. Set aside for a moment your prejudices about other items covered at the site and just focus on this amazing “crop circle” which appeared in Wiltshire County, England on the summer solstice over three consecutive nights. This thing is enormous, intricate, and wholly inexplicable. Human pranksters can’t possibly be responsible. What’s more, it makes a kind of sense to certain people who have tried to mathematically interpret the symbols you see here. What they came up with was a prediction of a massive solar flare on July 7th, which has in fact occurred, although with no apparent consequences. No one can predict the onset of a coronal mass ejection, least of all a gang of art students on a lark, and yet it seems like something did. Does this not make an impression?

The patterns seem to point to something with the sun, at any rate. Perhaps the 7th isn’t important by itself but indicates the onset of a dramatically significant solar cycle: we think we know everything, but what if we’re only insects in the larger context? If the crop circle diagrams are indicating something — never mind how in the hell they got there in the first place — our minds would likely miss the point! And that is what I’m getting at: we can’t “fix” anything because we don’t understand. We only hear our own thoughts, not the music of the spheres. We feel so old and beaten up, and yet perhaps we’re only waiting to be born.

There’s nothing “wrong” with species-limited ignorance: it’s certainty that’s in the way.

[Photo Credit: Lucy Pringle, 2009.]

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