April 18, 1999
I apologize for the delay in getting this weeks post up, been a busy weekend and I was pooped beyond anything I have done in a long while. Did work and the school's Pow-Wow and work again and I won't do that again.
Topic: what shall we talk about this week. I keep coming back to work because it is what I get the most material out of. And it is the part of life I feel needs to change most, the things I deal with, not the work.
This past weekend we got in a couple of kids who were dirty, scared, alone and under the age of 2. No parents around, no nothing around. Both looked as if they had been abused recently. I got to see it. What was hardest wasn't seeing it, wasn't realizing that the parents were probably the ones that did it. It was the idea that it was done. That after thousands of years of evolving we as a species have not learned how not to do something such as this.
Yes, I know there are those creatures on the planet that eat their young and those that are cannibles among our own species. But those who eat their young do so because of the evolutionary process that taught them to. The cannibles of our species are so because it is part of their religion. Sencelessly beating our children and teaching them that this is how things are done so that they can beat theirs when they have them, this is not part of Creator's plan.
Unless you have seen the end result you cannot imagine the pain. Unless you have been part of it you cannot imagine the anger and confusion. If you have done it you deserve to be taken away and taught.
Behaviour is learned and through a genetic set of predispositions it is acted upon. Nothing more and nothing less. I had the chance to see the movie "The Matrix" and in that movie there is a scene in which the idea of our species, humans, being compared to a virus is conveyed. I have to agree with the analogy, we are a virus on the face of planet earth. Indians were the one and only peoples who gave and took in a balanced way but with the intrusion of whites we became that which we despised. We became the plauge upon which rests the fate of our species.
A virus moves into an area and depleates the natural resources and then moves on to survive. The only other organism in the world that does this is man. And we are depleating the most basic of all our resouces, our children. When we abuse them we teach them that life is worth little or nothing. They imitate our example. The paluge spreads. Man becomes extinct.
Think about it the next time you decide to not pick up the trash on the ground or toss out that cigarette from your car. Or get ready to punish your children. I do not have all the answers, that is not my job in this life. I am to make people think and plant the seeds of change.
What is your calling in life.