Who is holding?
Who is being held?
Who stands their post?
Who forms links in the chain?
Where are the borders?
Where is the front?
Who fights for justice?
Who defends love?
How many links of beauty
to make a chain of truth?
How much mercy
to right the wrong questions?
“The questions that we don’t ask block the path to correct answers.”
Dartwill Aquila
Our blood can feel its kinship with the river.
Can we feel our kinship with each other?
Can we learn to flow together under the sun
and feel the power of our depth
when storms rage in the darkness?
Drops of humanity can cause troublesome puddles
and patches of slippery mud.
A sea of humanity can carry the fleet of life.
“Eyes are lenses producing images to fuel the engines of thought.
Stay focused!”
Dartwill Aquila
He’s very proud of his high position and eloquent vision.
The leaves can see that he has paid with his heart and has lost his roots.
“When money is valued more than life, life loses its value.
Priceless becomes worthless.”
Dartwill Aquila
“Humans can’t see the dance of life.
It moves too slowly for them
as they quickstep
to nowhere.
The dance of life has conquered the earth
in a mere 800 million years.
It has barely begun.
Humans will soon arrive
to nowhere.”
Dartwill Aquila
“We mourn the fallen
because of the pain
from a stab of awareness
that we’ve lost a part of ourselves.”
Dartwill Aquila
“Mechanical repetition forms stable structures.
Biological unity generates the progress of life.”
Dartwill Aquila
(from the book From DNA to ABC by Joel Miller)
Because of the power of digital language, the elegance of programming and the friendliness of the interfaces, we can reach a very high level of interactivity with our machines. So high in fact that we can engage in cybernetic intercourse such as when we interact with an ATM.
You: Let me slip my hard little card into your slot.
ATM: That’s a good one. Do you know which of my buttons to press?
You: This one, this one, this one and this one. Let’s get down to business.
ATM: OK! I’m ready. How much do you want?
You: 400.
ATM: One moment, please. Rhaarr. Pull your card out.
You: Thank you.*
ATM: Zipzipzipzip. Here’s your cash.
You: Thank you.*
ATM: Don’t forget your receipt. I’ve noted your latest transactions and the balance of your account on it.
You: Thank you.*
ATM. Next customer, please.
*Your “Thank you”s are actions telling the machine that you’re doing your part in the cybernetic intercourse. The ATM is more efficient than a biological teller and it doesn’t look down at you when it sees how little you have in your account. Intelligent? Would it help if it wore earrings?
**(Cybernetics deals with communication between machines and individuals. Intercourse formally means: social interaction between individuals.)
“Wouldn’t it be nice if there were AEMs; Automatic Empathy Machines.”
Dartwill Aquila
Tens of millions of years from now a new species will probably dig up the remains of human existence. What will they think uncovering a display of artificial nails? I don’t imagine that they’ll be amused.
“Lack of self-esteem attracts superficial extremes.”
Dartwill Aquila
Governments, like rivers, are constantly changing and always the same.
They constantly claim to be an obedient puppy and always bite with a poisonous tail.
Constantly. Always.
“Successful societies, whether bees, ants or termites, function without a government.”
Dartwill Aquila
Today John Dunn who have corrected his language and said, “No one is an island.”
and perhaps would have added, “Even islands are part of the whole.”
“Recognizing that other people are doing wrong does not make what you are doing right.”
Dartwill Aquila
System Humanity 