A next step

Who are we?

Are we today the fruit of these uncounted millennia of civilizing effort and tension to realize a society of accomplished human beings? Our fields of garbage, our toxic furrows, our venomous rivers, our air become lethal and our edifices scratching the skies and our rockets dirtying it till the stars and our machines to crush trees and our billions of obese bodies, is it for this that the thousands of generations which preceded us have gradually and against all odds, despite all obstacles and predicaments, disciplined, enlightened, cultivated, developed, emancipated, refined and organized themselves? Have we reached the end of the venture, a venture which turns out to be regrettable? Or else, when everything we ever built and touched seems to be about to self-destroy – and even though some will keep bragging and perorating on their technological triumphs “that will fix it all” -, are we nearing another kind of respiration, a letting go that will allow for a mutation, unintelligible yet full and certain at last, into another world of relations that is founded upon unity and balance, here itself?

Is there a possible choice and can we, are we capable of choosing it?

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