Long have I dwelt on the cosmic irony of our Fossil Fuel Culture. Our plant ancestors once lay at peace in their immeasurably old burial grounds, the most sacred grounds of our greatest grandparents; the ancient sustainers of the atmosphere, prodigium of consciousness.
We drag them up, wake them from their long deserved rest, and drive them like an endless zombie army. Enslave the plants of old, drink greedily of their untold power, and make them do great and menial things for our “advancement”.
We borrow from the dead, awaken our fossil family, but in our arrogance and drive, we did not take the time to learn the art of Necromancy. We disturb the spirits, but do not speak to them, and cannot listen either. It seems they may have offered some warning, perhaps a few choice words to throw our hubris into relief. The old mystics knew that you cannot live with the dead, and go on living; eventually the world of the dead becomes your world.
You were not honored Plant People, Great Ancestors, and this hard-handed lesson, is no less than we deserve. But I do ask for forgiveness, so that the Council of Beings might not all pay for our single species foolishness, and so we might have a chance to open a new age of reverence and love beyond “progress”.
I suppose the great tragedy is when a powerful gift is misunderstood when viewed through the lens of greed and ego. Then, such a gift becomes entranced and misused to the point that, ironically, it destroys that which is was set to aid. I suppose this is the risk with any concentration of power, be it petrochemical or otherwise. The razors edge is inherent in the design of keystones - without careful balance the keystone becomes the greatest weakness. With great power comes great responsibility, so they say, and wisdom is usually the stitch that binds the two. So what to do when blessing becomes the burden, like Indiana Jones drinking the Blood of Kali and falling into the Black Sleep of Kali Ma? If Shorty teaches us anything, it might be changing paths requires changing paradigm and that some paradigms are only changed in a trial by fire.
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