Look around you!
Is the world stable? Is nature kind?
How can you possibly think
that if you just change this or that…
if people would just reject ownership or money;
or just stop believing in…
… God, or nations, or desire for power…
if just that, or even if all of that…
do you really think
the world would then, somehow, be kind,
and peaceful and just and tolerant?
Look around you!!
Nature is violent… from exploding stars
to predator viruses;
from single cells attacking other cells
to black holes swallowing galaxies;
and we humans are merely grains of dust
blown in a hurricane of nature,
not knowing up from down.
The human mind itself is a dense webwork…
… of violence, conflict, contradiction,
hatred-loves and pecking-order violence,
overlaid emotions all intertwined,
suppressed motives furiously denied,
utter unknowing and deep confusions…
… that cannot be controlled
and can rarely be managed,
even by the wisest, most temperate of us
and those most psychologically informed.
Look around you!
You demand equality and justice.
Where in nature can you find them?
They are not inherent rights!
They are new and tenuous threads
slowly emerging in consciousness,
out of the utter tohu and vohu of nature.
Now, where are those new and tenuous threads coming from?!