I sometimes marvel at the sheer brilliance of Humankind. Looking around I realise that every manufactured item, every space adventure, every life-saving operation has started as someone's ideas, has been built on the knowledge laid down through generations and has been brought into existence by imagination, enterprise, hard work and planning.
Why is it then (I ask myself often) that such incredible talent has taken us up the wrong road so that we have a world torn by conflict, misery and starvation? Why is it that happiness often evades even those who have it all? Why is it that there is so much inequality both within and between nations?
Why is it that our intellect and creativity have marched forward while psychologically and emotionally we remain in the Dark Ages?
I ponder these things in the hope that the answers will help me to find the way forward.
I'm a Russell Brand fan. He's brought into the headlines the awful future facing Humankind unless we find a quick and big change of direction. I'm not taken by his proposal for 'Revolution' because the word scares me with images of fighting and bloodshed and neighbour turning on neighbour. And doesn't revolution often (usually?) bring about a worse state of affairs.
I'm now going see if any light can be shone on all this by reading the interesting take on Russell Brand given by Media Lens (aren't they great!) on -
http://medialens.org/index.php?option=com_acymailing&ctrl=archive&task=view&mailid=316&key=57f99d0d5c64f2cc19df88e9d55a7888&subid=11421-82b09c0457bcda532741983a2a407623&tmpl=component
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