Back to the Garden
As Einstein said you can’t solve the problem with the same thinking that created the problem.
Our institutions began with good intentions. Eventually they outgrew the goodness of their mission statements. Then problems began. You can look at most large institutions or businesses – banks, the health care industry, our energy systems, educational institutions, political systems, or religious organizations and see that this is so.
Most begin with the good intention to help mankind. The reason the entity was created served an ideal needed by the masses; or at least it was marketed in such a fashion that the public largely accepted the premise of foundation pouring their money and interweaving their very core of life into these entities, adding to their strength.
All goes well for a time. A balance is reached. But like the teeter-totter, what goes up must come down. On the rise upward, power and greed make them lose sight of their original purpose.
Absolute power corrupts, and corruption equals eventual destruction. The entities have to maintain their selves at the cost of those they originally were formed to serve. The institutions that once solved the problems become the problems. They took on a life of their own, like the computer on “2001 Space Odyssey.” The original mission statement became secondary. It was feed the entity at all costs.
The tentacles are now in deep sucking dry the life force that once sustained. Fear in the entity rises, as the tentacles are no longer being fed. Removal is a painful process. A new way must emerge from a new way of thinking. But what way? Perhaps the original plan – back to the garden?
