With the USA economy cautiously reopening in the summer of 2021, even as worldwide deaths from coronavirus disease surpassed 4 million, it seemed worth sharing a shorter version of an essay titled “Seeker With the Inkhorn.” Why? Because our species learns some things, like the priceless value of peace or love, more slowly than others. Consider reports in the first week of July 2021 regarding the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise. Think about the controversies over whether to get vaccinated against COVID or not, and the painful necessity of pulling U.S. troops out of Afghanistan.
The need for a collective commitment to coexistence [now in 2025] has never been greater and yet somehow remains stubbornly elusive. Therefore, what follows is about making the best use of what life continues to teach us as we struggle to move forward with greater knowledge, wisdom, and hopefully, reinforced resilience.
When studying activities of human advancement as they take shape throughout history, we find a lot of attention given to the areas of military domination, economic schemes, scientific discoveries, political showmanship, and emerging patterns of social interaction.
The cultural arts, spiritual concerns, and developments in education often appear to be acknowledged less frequently. They are usually somewhere in the background of officially-recorded history functioning like unseen digital code that drives more ostensible programming. Individual lives can also be that way. They/we get lost or displaced in the dynamically-charged cross-currents of opposing priorities and agendas.
As a species, human beings may not be able to collectively shift from one history-shaping mindset to another in a single instant. But we can, collectively, take time to identify our best options for a sustainable shared future––be they ethical, political, economic, spiritual, or educational in nature––and make them our common goals…
Aberjhani
adapted from These Black and Blue Red Zone Days
and essaySeeker with the Inkhorn Number 1
“Angel of Freedom & Democracy Native American Edition”
From conceptual mixed digital art series by Aberjhani
created partially with OpenAi media tools
And, while educational developments are exploding in the 21st century, with distance learning like the Khan Academy, and the Socratic mentoring available for free with YouTube and step-by-step procedures educating the public at their own pace. We are rapidly leaving brick and mortar and traditional lectures for walless learning and hands on experience. All of this, rightly, does not gain much attention.
AI promises much that may revolutionize arts and science, yet our understanding of political process is mired in the past rather than the future as you suggest. What most people want but seem powerless to move toward.
Ron