ap170623  Saving Earth’s human life sustainability 

Why write an autobiography? 

When I came into the world, the belief I met was that any little thing was a chance for growing conscious of humanity in a relationship with Nature. By the time I had lived twenty years, my belief encompassed all Natural things—stones, trees, animals, birds, fish—and I took my role to be that of an artist and a teacher. To be an artist, I had to teach. Survival of that element of humanity to see every little thing as a chance for growing conscious of humanity’s relation with Nature depended on me teaching cultural arts.
Mechanization was constantly growing, too; and often the demands of mechanization were counter to consciousness of Nature and our dependence on Natural forces. By the time I was forty, I had been adopted, it seemed, by a being showing me both Natural and mechanical forces and they are enemies.
By the time I was sixty—around the year 2001—I could see the balance of survival tipping to the mechanical. Now that I am seventy five, the victory in the contest between Nature and mechanization is almost won by the latter. Humanity no longer controls the forces of mechanization. It is a fact, as one of the authors said in a book I read when I was in my ‘thirties, that mechanization takes command.
Mechanization has disrupted even the simplest human reactions—such as one human making eye-contact with another human meeting on a sidewalk. Plugged in—either with ear buds or only mentally—most people I meet walking avoid showing any signs that they know I am there. I feel like a ghost; I can see them, but they cannot see me it seems.
People acknowledge a dog, yet do not acknowledge another human being. Humans put out extreme efforts to husband their vehicles above all else—devoting huge sums of money to buying and maintaining their cars while wasting and ignoring Natural things such as humans.
Is it only Americans who behave this way? Probably not. However, among the inventions of Americans is entertainment and the mediums to distribute the power of mechanization overwhelming Nature, so that billions of non-Americans fall under its power, too.
The endowment of cultural arts allows those who practice and teach them to see the others’ meaning, and to sense an understanding of the reasons that people hate Americans for having destroyed so much of Nature that was good.
Therefore, when I was in my ‘fifties and my thoughts encountered those of a few other Americans by way of the mechanical means of communications—TV and books, mostly—I believed that my teaching and artistic role had found a value that transcended my expectations as an ordinary, limited Natural human. The mechanics of goal-setting is a helpful method to keep one’s bearings when the forces of mechanization overwhelm me.
What is this writing - this blog - worth? Six months ago I made a commitment to write my autobiography. This project is conditional, however. If I wrote my autobiography within the same framework as autobiographies were written in the past, it would be like wasting Natural resources. It would be like a person facing a walk in a desert and pouring the contents of a water canteen into the sand as if this were the first step toward a successful journey.
It would be a waste of the most precious of all resources given to me: Time. Therefore, in the spirit of human creativity, creating an autobiography must have an artist and teacher’s touch. It must use the best of what mechanization has to offer to achieve the most human of goals—Earth’s human life sustainability.