You certainly got me thinking. We certainly are isolated from our roots in our highly dependent societies, now situated firmly in unsustainable cities that continually seek higher and glorious achievements in pushing the realm of reality. This portends the fear that we have lost what it means to be at the source of our existence.

That fear may be unfounded if I compare my childhood education with what is available to young people today, I am amazed at how far we've come in understanding our roots. In my youth, we knew little of dinosaurs. Today's children at a very early age, learn all about them. Cavemen were caricatures in cartoons and Neanderthals were the only early man that we know of and they were considered brutish half human, akin to gorillas who we thought were also dangerous. Survival was taught in Boy Scouts but not encouraged with camping being supplemented with all the latest 20th-century gear. Today, survival reality shows abound, even helping a young boy survive after a plane crash recently. Biblical myths held everyone tightly in control in my youth. Young people today tend to be free from all those restrictive tenets joining the Global Village of the Internet.

I remain optimistic that, while societies grown old and useless, will be discarded, humankind will go on to as Arthur C. Clarke declared, "expand exponentially throughout the universe."

Ron

I hear it, too, Odin - louder as I get closer to my return to the cave and that riverman, or is it riverwoman?

A primal, instinctual begging as time passes. It is amazing how true these words, verses are...

Thanks,
Chris