Remembering Our Humanity

A friend just sent me an interesting podcast reel of someone who has been tracking the evolution of Earth changes for some time, via an app.

Sure, it was intriguing but I found myself recoiling at some of the commentary... especially in regard to "benevolent extraterrestrials hanging out until we take back our power."

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If benevolent extraterrestrials exist, are aware of us, possess the ability to intervene, understand that we are edging toward ecological and military catastrophe, and are deliberately withholding help until humanity “reclaims its power,” then I would have some fairly pointed questions with regards to the benevolent part.

Because at a certain point, noninterference stops looking noble and starts looking like spectatorship.

Not to mention that I truly believe that a great deal of our current state of affairs has more to do with the interference of a very negative alien agenda, to begin with.

The usual spiritual answer centers around some version of free will: they cannot interfere because humanity must choose its own development.

I understand the philosophy behind that, but I have always thought the argument gets slippery when applied to collective suffering.

We don't ordinarily consider it a violation of free will to pull a drowning child from a river. We don't tell the child, “You must discover your sovereign aquatic potential.” We intervene because we can, and because it is right action..

And there's another problem. Humanity is not one person making one decision.

Eight billion people have wildly unequal power over nuclear weapons, fossil-fuel policy, warfare, food systems, technology and economics. A child born tomorrow has not “chosen” any of this. Neither has a farmer whose land becomes unlivable, nor a civilian caught in somebody else's crosshairs.

So when someone says, “They are waiting for humanity to take back its power,” my response is:

"Which humans? From whom? And what exactly are we supposed to do on Tuesday morning?"

Because otherwise it becomes one of those spiritual statements that sounds profound while quietly placing responsibility for enormous systems onto ordinary individuals.

Remember when Sting sang, “I hope the Russians love their children too”? It was powerful precisely because it was an "in your face" reality. Behind nations, ideologies, governments and nuclear arsenals were people who loved their children.

That may be much closer to the thing that could save us than some grand metaphysical awakening.

Not “humanity must reclaim its power.”

Maybe "Humanity must remember each other's humanity," and start treating each other decently.

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