where's our brain?

where is our leading?

I wonder about us as a species

and how much intelligence we can muster

to meet the challenges the world gives us

and that we throw at ourselves,

if we are as a body, then where is our brain?

politics?

Washington has seizure after seizure

as if to give oneself a stroke

will free up the rest of the body to prosper,

corporations?

we can get better legs but where to go with them?

better hands but what to do with them?

we can comfort ourselves with the delusion

that selfish actions by individuals

can somehow manifest as the guiding hand of the marketplace,

that “hand” does produce the better and better widget 

yet it cannot grasp a vision of our soul

and where we should go with our widgets,

now many are guided by the lowest common denominators,

the illusion of the senses that more is always better,

we waste the great gift of fossil fuels

in cars with more power and weight

than the future will understand,

we supersize ourselves and wonder why we’re sick,

I am intrigued by the Internet

and how a distributed intelligence might work like natural selection

to help us evolve into the better,

Wikipedia, as paradigm, intrigues me,

the plant kingdom somehow fills 

every available niche with purpose and beauty

with no great gardener supervising it all,

yet that of God is a whole within all of life,

we are the crown of creation only so far as we can be the eyes

that make conscious the whole,

we can be the eyes with which life can see itself 

and know it is good.

by Henry H. Walker

July 13, ’14