Hey,
Let's Just Play Like We Care
Just
for the purpose of a discussion let me suggest a game...basketball.
It
was invented by a Canadian up North to give students some practical
outlet
for physical exercise during winter months. Simple.
It
caught on across the country. Kids enjoy the game. It is healthy
play.
It
even has the added benefit of teaching teamwork and cooperation and
the
beauty of our bodies. Good things. Still, it is a game. That may be
an
important
thing to remember. Let us see.
Because
what happened next was that people have forgotten it is a game to
provide
play and promote the health of youngsters. They have come to
believe
it to be worthy of the dynamics of adults in the pursuit of
its...what?
Imagine
such a thing in the bee world. Bees decide to play basketball. What
if
spinach did that? Water? Air?
Politics
is a lot like basketball. It's a gamble too. Religions? They are
too.
Oh,
and for sure, corporations and money and the stock markets and the
real
estate game and banking and all the other gambling schemes for
becoming
rich...these
begin in the minds of men also... and lead to a world where people
cannot
feed one another. Don't even want to feed one another. Bobby Kennedy
found
this to be unbelievable and he asked, “why don't we...feed one
another?
We're
rich!
Oh,
well, we can always play games. But, is it not important at least to
consider
seriously
what is worthy of grown-up human endeavor? Should we not feed one
another?
Of course, food for the belly. What of adequate shelter and
clothing?
Opportunities
to learn? What of food for the heart? Nourishment for the instincts
to
be kind and generous and fair? Beauty? Enough beauty for everybody?
What
would
that be like? Love enough for everybody. What would a world like
that be
like?
What if all people spent time diligently working at the creation of
something
with
but the single purpose of expressing beauty? Are we really so
unworthy of such
a
world as that one?
