CONNECTIONS

It's all a matter of inter-connectedness. I don't mean global or on the level of the EU, the British Empire or the USA. These are concepts and used to manipulate and control you. I don't mean democracy or collectivism. These “slogans” are used to make you act in a predictable way. Government literaly means “governe mente”, to “rule” over the way you think, feel and act. I don't mean inter-connectedness with nature. We have definitively decided to cut all the roots with the reality around us. We are polluting the earth, the sky, the rivers and oceans; with devastating effect on the eco-system. Experimental introduction of the nile-perch into Lake Victoria resulted in the destruction of a complete eco-system, so did the introduction, for fun (hunting), of foxes on Tasmania. No, I don't mean those kind of connections. Why, because they hardly exist anymore. The areas, where you can connect with nature are shrinking and most are destroyed. Deforrestation, growing desserts, urbanization, infrastructure, digging for gold, diamonds, minerals, oil or salt; all these, economically “necessary” activities eat away our natural world and replace it by dirt and plastic. The plastic, we so conveniently dispose of, is killing birds, fish and sea-mammals, because they mistake it for food. In the end they literally burst open and expose the waste we produce. Even where I live, the numbers of sea-birds are dwindling and the seals, because they are the end of a local food-chain, will be affected soon. Do we connect with our pats? I don't think so. Pats are bought for amusement and disposed of easily. Turtles and exotic fish are flushed through the toilet. Some survive, which leads to articles in local newspapers about turtles in a pond and piranha's in the river.

Even Australian wallabies have found aplace in our local, Dutch eco-system!

It's like the story of the lonely guardian of a lighthouse on a small island of the coast of New-Zealand, who introduced a cat, as a companion, to the island. In a year all the birds, species unique to the island, had disappeared, never to return.

Remains the question? Do we connect with our family and friends? The duty of educating, protecting and caring for sake of a livable future has gone and is replaced by distraction and entertainment. Forced by economy, implanted ambitions and manipulated consumerism, most grown-ups have to work and on all hours of the day. The harmony, warmth and care, synonymous with growing up in a family-unit, can only be bought. Children who experience a divorce, will have to deal with absent, while work, and money motivated parents and complex emotional and identification problems, when mother starts dating.

Ockay, except from all this “Entfremdung”, prophesied by Jesus, Karl Marx and Herbert Marcuse, the question must be asked “do we connect with our selves”. Do we?