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Journal: December 22, 2011
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Government                              Human Nature                              Idea of "Other"

Juggernaut of Humanity: There is a lot of inertia to this thing we call humanity, particularly since the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Darwin’s “empire of the people”, a rebirth of science and learning, but now in service of all humanity. We shall spread joy and truth, well at least truth throughout the world, and if some of us get rich beyond dreams, so much the better. Actually most of us in the US are much richer at least materially but some of the richest of the rich, richer than even the Phaorohs .... WOW!.

This juggernaut is hard to steer; and even if we could we don’t know where to point it except toward “more”: more things, more love, more peace, more compassion, more security, more safety, more sex, more health, etc. etc. And it seems most of my friends fret no end about how some pebble in the pavement will derail the “more” train. Yet the train cuts through the pavement on wings of steel while we babble about the shapes and colors of the pebbles embedded in the road. Each of us pauses, in our time, and watch the juggernaut whiz by.