The Joke Is on Us

Humongous, exquisite processes have been going on behind our backs, or, rather, under our feet and over our heads as you will see in a moment. The joke is on us unless we awaken and pursue our interconnectedness with each other and nature around us, and calmly stay awake during our uncharted world cruise this decade.

We can no longer snooze once we awaken to our links to nature, and gawk at how nature affects our enterprises. What has my curiosity about Earth’s natural happenings got to do with business? A better question might be, ‘What has business not got to do with Earth’s natural happenings?’

Here are some thoughts of elements in Earth’s unending transition about which I had not even a clue, but, I have become extremely curious if not down right thoughtfully excited.

The National Geographic documentary shows, with very little scripted sensationalism, how an interloper, for example, a certain type of termite has purportedly traveled unticketed continent to continent on board humans’ ships and airplanes.

Consequently, those interlopers have been attending their business for decades by munching in woods underneath and inside homes and buildings in the southern United States. Some of those structures are falling; landslides are likely to occur after sponge-like underground structures collapse from the gnawing appetites of innocent wee critters.

Most termite colonies are family oriented, helpful, groom each other, and sophisticated in their communications with one another – even termites can be endearing.

Would you believe plants war with each other for resources and space? Plants are conscious. I have believed that for years, but little did I know as a kiddo that the ivy mom kept on the coffee table had actually schemed to take over the house.

Plants, migrated into labs of research scientists, have found ways to nose around, forage, and multiply in common water ways of their new homes in foreign lands. Those overly grown, undaunted green leafies interrupt the flow of water through channels native residents had engineered for irrigating crops.

Dust travels intercontinentally. Vast, circular weather systems rotating above Earth gather dusts containing elements compromising the health of the destinations’ residents. We could be breathing last year’s air born skin cells from who knows where.

Do you see how nature has been continually using humans’ attributes, just as we are, distracted by tethers to illusions and technology, as a collective alliance for an inconceivable, magnificent evolutionary purpose?

You might think natural processes have happened all along, and assume such attention to detail unnecessary. I would agree, but it’s likely Earthlings have not had such a dazzling opportunity to observe these elegant processes on a grand scale with as many peoples or economies in the balance.

We Earthlings are only a single, collective participant in embedded processes discovered in nature; we are observant of our extraordinary selves inside of the processes, too.

What are we citizens, entrepreneurs, professionals, and business owners supposed to do before something disrupts the sustainability of technological and financial shrines? The joke is on us until we stay awake to the idea that choices, focuses, and resulting behaviors are only one part of an ongoing, unimaginably exquisite universal design including other earthly businesses of interloping insects and plants.

Our constant curiosity is key
to watching what’s being created.
~ David Moorhead