IS THERE HOPE?

Damyanti wrote a fascinating post on her DAILY WRITE:
https://damyantiwrites.wordpress.com/

It was on Man's fragmented identities and dueling world-views

that inevitably ended in blood being spilled and innocent lives being mangled.

In such an inter-connected world as ours has become, she asked is there any hope for humanity?

On the world stage, I believe there is none.  

Our technology has grown beyond our maturity to use it wisely.

On the individual level, there is some if we strive to be the change we wish to see as Gandhi urged.


But hope for the world?


People rightly denounce Hitler, but Stalin murdered millions more and ruled for a much longer time. 

Putin has risen to power on the heaped bodies of his rivals.

Hope for the world?

Is there any?  As Sci Fi and Scary wrote on Damyanti's blog --

there is hope for this planet since it has endured ice ages and comets/asteroids ending most life on it.  

 For Man?  Not so much.

In the septic tank of politics, the biggest chunks always seem to rise to the top.  Yet, think on what Gandhi wrote:

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won.

There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”

Still in the meantime, millions have perished in terrible ways.  

And the headlines, written in innocent blood, tell us it is still going on.

Do you know the largest concentration camp still operating in the world today? 

The Rosebud Reservation --

which includes the Wounded Knee massacre site. 

No barbed wire is needed for it is surrounded by miles of harsh desert. 

I remember my half-Lakota mother stopping at a gas station and seeing the sign: "No Dogs or Indians Allowed."

Mother cried silent tears, for she had wanted to shield me from the bigotry of whites for a bit longer. 

I just laughed: I found the company of most dogs better than that of most humans.

Most of you that read this the Lakota would call  Wasi’chu.

 Wasi’chu is a Lakota word that means “Non Indian” but another version of this word means “Takes the best part of the meat.”  

That is what will doom Man,  “The one who takes the best part of the meat.”  

It means Greedy. Greed will kill us all if we do not fight it.

I agree with Alex on Damyanti's blog:

With God there is always hope.  I can imagine the rolling eyes of some who just read that. 

The Lakota call God the Great Mystery,

and though only part Lakota, I often call him that, too, since what He is up to is usually a great mystery to me -- one such mystery is why He made us at all.

Two-leggeds. 

They insist on being oblivious to the obvious. 

In a world where they comfort their memories of being shabby by making of this wondrous world a maelstrom of meaninglessness. 

And in such chaos, how could there be God or His rules to live by? 

Yet their own scientists show the fallacy of this thinking with their Chaos Theory.  

 We must sometimes give the Great Mystery indigestion.

Great Mystery.  What is that name really?

Only a sound for what cannot be named or spoken or expressed in any correct way in human language

for He who sang us into being.

May each of us choose to identify ourselves as champions of the Great Mystery --

and be agents of healing in a diseased world.