DISSENT If it appeared that we were about to start arguing about the manner in which Mankind has handled his affairs since the time of Creation, I would, I'm sure, choose to side with Mankind and argue that he has done an exceptionally good job of improve his social order - despite a veritable catalog of obvious wrongs he is doing, has always done and will, there seems to an eight-tracked miss-guidance system, he will continue to follow his own methods of improving his social environment.
And, the records of the projects he undertakes, because he has not yet come to term concerning "who" and "what" his place was meant to be in this complex world of ours. Hand a man a blank sheet of paper and a sharp pencil - maybe a short ruler and a simple compass for creating circles we can run around in - and he can give you a picture of what he wants our world to come. Give him a computer and he will give you a spittin'-image model of what his way-out ideas jell into something which just might be economically chewable.
Creative advances cannot be hurried.
We have been at it for some time, but we have never been ready to admit, we have been so strangely blessed. When all this which we call "the Universe" was a made The Power causing it all decreed his work to be "good". At some point along that line, authority decreed that, henceforth, this World would be under the "dominion" of Mankind.
You know the terms of the agreement. Man was given... dominion over life in the far-flung seas... the endless sky above... dominion over the natural resources of the the salt, gas, oil, coal, diamond, silver, gold!
We have been slow in undertaken our share of the blessed burden of our ownership. We must work toward such a goal by exercising our right to rule, and by basic acts of care and maintainenace required to maintain the great wealth we hold in trust with the Creator.
A.L.M. October 15, 2005 [c 358wds]
