Until We Do

We don’t yet know what we do not know until we do. I scratched my head when I first heard that idea in an educational course some years ago. Pretend for a moment that Earthlings will not know all there is to know and understand—until we do.

We’ve been primarily educated and trained from books with themes of industrialization to keep Earthlings muted and led by the nose. Thematic religious and sociological experiments upon the human imagination are liken to twenty to fifty centuries old; honed during the last five; and seemingly perfected in Western cultures since WORLD WAR ONE.

Consider entry into deluded human consciousness the quantum physics presumptions that focus on one big “Surprise!” after another. Wouldn’t you think we Earthlings are in need of updated metaphors and new stories for better comprehension of ourselves, our life on Earth, and the workings in our Universe?

I like to ponder the idea that, for humans to glimpse the secrets unconcealed by our Universe to cosmologists, it’s as likely as any other theory that Universe over millennia escorts humans’ brains and physical hearts to an acknowledgement of our planet’s natural beauty and fragile environments, until we do so.

From the moment I heard it, I’ve loved this idea: we Earthlings are observing ourselves watching ourselves. With Internet, we’re observing ourselves quicker than ever watching all that’s been held secret; no longer secret are the happenings to subjugated citizenries and indigenous peoples on the other side of our planet.

We’re watching, paying attention, staying awake to our collective enigmatic selves becoming more informed. But, what would we Earthlings do without secrets in duplicitous multinational corporations that gradually but surely with greed guide populations this way and that?

I cannot believe for a second Earthlings would know what to do with ourselves being entirely void of secrets—until we do. I don’t know that we know what real fear is until we experience the fear many women and children already feel—until we do.

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