MADNESS AND OUR REMOVAL

Our madness exists because of our desperate neglect of Mother Nature.  We no longer walk from place to place, with our feet imprinting the dust upon the narrow trails.  We no longer sleep on the ground under the stars, when it’s time to rest from the day’s journey.  We no longer sit astride the horse’s back, or bounce in the horse’s carriage to travel to distant places.

Instead, we sit with our butts planted on man-made materials, and roll on spinning wheels made of rubber that melt over asphalt.  We sleep in crowded apartment buildings and crowded neighborhoods, strange motels, hotels, or public campsites, surrounded by more asphalt and spinning wheels—where Who was there before?

We know where milk comes from, but few of us have ever seen or smelled a cow.  We know from where the eggs originate, but how many of us have ever been in the presence of a live chicken?  We eat vegetables and fruits all the time, but rarely do we dig the potato directly out of the ground, pull the berry off the vine, or pick the apple out of the tree.  Chances are we’ve never even seen a field or an orchard.

As long as the developers keep paving the Land, and the scientists keep defying Death, we will continue to remove ourselves from the planet, neglecting our origins and polluting our essentials.

Because the land and the animals have serenity*, our removal from the land and the animals is Madness.  For what happens when one leaves serenity, but madness?  

As long as we keep the population-explosion active, the developers will always have a reason to tear up the lands and smother them with asphalt and concrete.  As long as we keep encouraging the scientists to cure us of the curse of death—God’s diseases and deformities—we will need the developers to keep us safe (?) within their interlocking network of freeways, ramps, and multi-complex buildings.

Our addiction to imagined safety supports the inevitable disintegration of Mother Nature and Her serene ways, and keeps the Madness alive.       

*(excluding weather changes, feeding, and breeding)