Quicksilver

Sludge Bucketeers

One thing that causes me physical shivers is when someone refers to anything Past as if it shall always reflect our Truth. This would mean that our pool has gone stagnate. This would mean our days of learning and creation are over. It would mean that we will always do things the way we have always done them. How droll.

Yesterday's news... is yesterday. There is NO hard correlation between yesterday and tomorrow. As long as we accept Yesterday's mode as TRUTH in stone, then yes, Tomorrow will be more of the same. But, WE can change it. We can use what we learned Yesterday to shape, build, transform, mutate, magnify, simplify, beautify, Tomorrow. Why is this such a difficult concept to grasp?

When we say, "This is how we are." We are lying. We only know how we have been. We decide how we shall be. How we 'are' changes continuously, unless we lock ourselves into how we have been. This would be a monumental error, especially considering some of the consequences we're living (and dying) with. ('We' in this case is humans, animals, the planet...)

Statistics, reports, percentages, odds... These are all used to shadow our future but they are not OF the Future. They describe only the Past. They indicate nothing about the Future. The Future is always waiting for us to build it, one day at a time. Reusing the same crap from the Past and letting it just sludge over into becoming our Future seems like the lazy way to do it. Furthermore, the folks who gripe the most about how the world is... are precisely the ones who are hauling the sludge into Tomorrow.

The sludge bucket brigade says "See. See?! See what we DID?" and then passes it along and sure enough, we do more of it. If the brigade would just drop their damned buckets and look away from the Past, they'd see that the way of the Future is clear, empty. ALL of that free open space... an infinite canvas on which to paint whatever we wish. But no, the brigade wants to sling a bucket of old sludge onto Tomorrow. They are perpetually saying, "Let's start with this again."

Let's not.

06.09.2001

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