Caged humans and ravens.

Caged humans and ravens.

The little willows outside my window are beginning to sprout tiny buds and the dry grasses are allowing patches of green to show through. A doe with a fawn is busy clipping and sampling the delicious new growth hungrily. Spring in the mountains is a little late but much appreciated. I am sitting isolated at my window thinking that it has been about a month now since I have been with people. I am a hermit by nature yet I miss seeing faces that are real, not just on a flat-screen. I am spoiled you know. In my childhood, I was on a farm and often lived without seeing any new people for months at a time. It was a good time I say, and I am an old man now.   

Isolation and social distancing may go on for a long time yet, especially for me. The Coronavirus is punishing me not knowing that we are on the same side. Both of us are working towards a major social change. COVID is doing it indiscriminately like a parent who punishes all the kids for one who is being rowdy.

Is the virus a gift or a punishment? The big problem today is inequality in human society. It comes from selfishness which is at war with oneness. Humankind has achieved the capacity to overcome death but not the maturity to understand it. To survive we must stop economic growth. (Grow sideways not upwards.) Progress must be redefined. Under normal conditions, it would cause a political suicide but COVID may change it.

As I am writing these words in India millions of poor Muslim citizens are pushed to walk to their deaths. The picture repeats in some form or another in many parts of the world. Canadian food prices are rising since we restricted foreign workers from working on growing our food. Canadians are not willing to do the work for what it pays.

In a short time Pressure to “let us go back to work” will grow and a second more deadly wave of COVID will hit the western nations. The governments will try to shrug responsibility by blaming China and other countries forgetting that we are dealing with humans who have the capacity to hurt us back if they are cornered. We couldn’t defeat even poor Afghanistan and now we may be picking a war with three-quarters of the world.

The brainless COVID is doing that. If you go back three and a half thousand years you will find artifacts, including the pyramids, indicating that there was a human civilization as developed as ours on Earth. Egypt was the main empire and Moses defeated it. It was as highly unequal as our society, led by 1% elites and fuelled by slaves. War, famines, and plagues demolished it bringing a long dark age.

Humans have a hard time understanding that we are all one in a major way. Mankind is similar to a body of one man, or woman. Our body is made out of trillions of cells, each alive on its own, serving a purpose, namely being one organism. The cells are born, live their time and pass on to be replaced by newer cells. In two years all the cells that make my body and brain, are replaced. As long as they all work together we have a healthy body. When something gets out of line some cells attack each other as we see in cancer patients.

At this point, some countries including Canada are doing the right thing. People are isolating and the government is providing the necessities of life. When the danger has passed our people will be alive and have enough money to purchase needs. That money will restart the economy. We old mountain people know that you need tinder and kindling to start a fire.

Some other countries, who are led by far-right ideologies are not as cautious. Since they don’t care about the lives of the poor and are overly worried over lost revenues, they are restarting their economies too soon and they will pay a dear price.

The best salesperson in the world will fail when people’s loved ones are carried away in body bags. The same goes for people who become homeless or, God forbid, starve.

The 99% allowed the 1% to bring them into a state close to slavery over close to forty years. The abuse of producing without sharing in the bounty was inflicted over groups of people and nations at different times and places. Each time the majority allowed a few to suffer hoping that they will be spared.

COVID is leveling the suffering inflicting it on all at the same time. A few runaway slaves can’t change much. This time all those who are not privileged are threatened at the same time.  A major civil war to free slaves can change a nation. Brainless killer COVID may just cause that. I am more afraid of the reaction to the disease than the virus itself.

Some countries who are blessed to have leadership open to change will do well. Nations who understand that humanity no longer can provide jobs for all their people and yet must keep the people fed, housed, educated and in good health, will prosper. Others who still believe that they must force everyone to work and enrich their most affluent 1% may face deadly rebellions after they surface from the killer pandemic.

The Earth is guaranteed to survive and resurrect after the dominant species undergo a major change or two. The human species may perish or be set back to its prehistoric form in order to try again.

The deer outside are munching the spring growth uncaring. They adopted the main message of all human religions. Just take what you need and leave the rest knowing that there is always enough. The One who created you does not abandon you.

The humans warry that if they don’t hoard enough riches they may all kill each other. I am worried about the opposite. The cities and huge buildings will disintegrate in time and grow new delicious greens once again.

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