An Invisible Chain of our Time
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and poultry, having nobody to ask for help or defense. This one is the recent wave of migration to cities and/or countries, of people who drag a mix of bad mood, a flood of bitter emotions, a watchful feeling of not to be nothing absolutely, than sometimes kills the person. Let's go ahead, let's go, and let's go see how becomes the life for all. The countryside now is being arranged, organized, drawn and gridded.
There is some doubt about the risks that we have created, against which we have removed? Is possible say it, after going through the Moscow metro or the Beijing one, with 10 million passengers daily?
Something was called exponential growth many years ago. This means that: the 7.000 billion already we are, adding each year roughly 70 million more of people willing to enjoy here in the world, all both are walking on the same floor, and this one is each year a bit more tiny, cramped, shabby and messy. In 40 years, by the way we are following, it will be unavoidable distribute the goods. Other solutions are not drastic but deplorable, though not unknown for all we know.
The following is an example, furthermore is a reference for other goods as energy, coal, wood or food. A common good is the water (again talking about the gold liquid). When we have a spring water for drinking the countrymen, the flow keeps, hardly changes; when the whole tribe wants to drink, the boss must bring order, one goes thirsty, another wastes water, others drink as they want. When we are thousand of thousands people for sharing it, we do not share: then we control the storage, the delivery, the withdrawal, the price, the power, and continue wasting waters, selling, buying and making business with. You could live without light: hard, is not? You could live with no trees, as the “blue veils” of the Sahara’s people: no livestock, not ... but never without water. In a ladder, the water is the first step, afterwards comes the health, food, learning, and growth.
We are not animals adapted to no water. And I will repeat this again: we are not animals adapted to no water! We need water. And is scarce years ago.
Where water likes to stay? Water likes stay where it has way to remain a time: hence water loves forests, water loves terrains covered with plants, water loves have time to go down to subsoil, and not hurry to run off downhill. All that the water needs is the opposite thing than we have proposed and realized. Today we already are paying the cost. And as water is the first step, the second and third and next steps depend all from it.
If the world population continues increasing steadily, to an average rate of 1-2%, with strong differences between watersheds, supposing all duties well done, we have 40 years to find where and how feed this plus of almost 2 billion inhabitants. It is no a small issue: an ensemble of business has already designed this road of course, and the Governments only are one tool in this market coming. World is not finishing, simply is running “in other range” for companies.
The closer we are, the more we are tightened, the more stressed and busy, the most we will leave in the hands of others the obtaining of basic goods, most will accept any loss of value, we will pay for it; and those who provide will make more business. The market of waters, lands, and the market of this struggle of folks for the well being, all those goods will be the new piece of a bigger cake. Wake up, open eyes, ears, and include also the heart. That is truly the future. You can understand that, any big company will make giant business with giant populations from towns, where will be the 70-80% of population, but never with the poorest settlers of field-factories.
Let’s put the eyes on this: the current neighborhood among China and India is only an unstable balance of forces, where the disputes for ancient borders follow on latency, they share the like for petroleum wells nearby Vietnam, also are sharing the waters that come down from the Himalayan massif, and both are arming year after year: furthermore, altogether have the third part of world population. Here are reasons for any conflict, which suddenly can burst or be skillfully provoked. This sort of events only brings a high pressure over the whole system, economy and resources. In only four years, both economies have slowed from growth rates of 10.3% to 7.8% and 5.5% respectively, and this lowering has been roughly the same for Germany, Japan, Brazil and Mexico: whilst, the US continues growing at least at 2% steadily. Now, does it difficult understand any little war that bursts from time to time in the weaker sites with less population?
Sioux children, image courtesy of the Library of Congress.
13. What we teach? I do not recognize my children! Do you wonder why?
No wonder!
This part of our lives I find it most appealing, probably because I know the importance has the way that we develop. According to what I see, it would be foolish to forget the skills that each child is about to develop, and just need to be encouraged, I am going to let a little digress, hoping you achieve intuit before understand what I am saying.
Something really valuable for everyone is the period of his childhood. And if you have been lucky enough to meet people like me with an open childhood around, you will have seen that the childhood they have had is even more valuable for the others: their attitude and way of deciding, before other values, generates around them a kind of wealth that cannot be measured or calculated, but enjoy. Nor is it a coincidence that what they carry inside the parents, is a land sown for what they can lead their children.
There are reasons to expect that along a period of 14 years, a child who needs learn to act and feel, will catch of his living environment everything necessary to feel at the end among others, is meant to others, which is integrated, which takes a place.
And the teaching that every day are catching silently children, is marked by adult rules coming less and less in the hands of parents: it is observable again in almost all cultures of Western-style, where the unspoken wish that a child runs as part of the "successful group" rules all that is taught. Pass the doors of schools and talking with children, let them to relax, breaking the initial ice, and they free what really learn to think, always listen to them, it is really educational. Furthermore, ten years living without heat, refuge, a known hand, a hot pot, a carpet, essential stuffs so this ones, makes children not confident, this makes them do not expect anything from life.
You can then discover what things they know, and what not. With what things have been in contact, and which are not. You can discover what distorted image slowly is being built in his mind of the real world around him, and of the world that they cannot see. This is even more educational, if you know different schools in different countries. An infinitesimal picture of them is able to show some of it: a photographer called Julian Germain caught it thus.
They will be there in less than thirty years.
Likely, you would like your children learn things like be a quick learner, a worthy worker for others, a kind of clever key for business, and things so. Good, this is right, that is what is on the air now: be on the ridge, and be stronger... in all fields of the life. And that is just what children start learning everyday if you are teaching them as such kind of things; they also learn what they are smelling on the air, what they are scanning and peering despite your efforts to hide some things. Are fields like the sex, the relationships, labor relations, honesty, races, religions, or the difference between that is crime and what not. Other things as be honest, to be sincere, be thoughtful, be thrifty, be respectful of animals or plants are not maintained because they do not produce a direct benefit.
Anyway, there is no need to emphasize what to learn, they recognize themselves in the lives of their parents, and adults, what is really interesting: you are who teach them, unconsciously, inevitably. They will be as a copy. Maybe you remember the poetry of Gibran Jalil Gibran: let me recall a short piece.
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You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and he bends you with his might
that his arrows may go swift and far.
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We are teaching not into schools: we
are teaching throughout what they can see in our streets, in our newspapers, in our TVs; all that they can hear in the other room; that they have listen there and here; what you said and I said; what you did and I did. Whatever you would deny, if it has been heard and seen, is a banned mystery, and a mark of the desired adulthood: everything that we wish and praise the adults, we yearn and seek, openly or covertly, are on view in cinemas, in magazines, on television, and ends being "at home and close”.
Children learn to love these things, these relations and adventures, the thrill they can get with these things, more exciting the more forbidden, as you do. Beside the excitement, mummified things are indigestible for them from the beginning, and learn to meet them and avoid them. Whilst the world changes so quickly, while your home and your marriage changes so speedily, they hear that must learn things written in black over white, thereby they learn to hear what to do, and listen what like do.
Underneath all we want to teach them, they learn to read under white: they learn all unwritten insatiably.
Like a sack of wishes, as a marine sponge absorbing everything around it needs, the less with you they can find, the more they will look elsewhere: it is a lot more than a logic reaction, it is animal and