Brief post for a brief possibility

We live in the most dangerous of times, when an aeon, with its eras and ages, is coming to an end. The macrocosm and the microcosm are in accord. Not coincidentally, the new God of science has put the means into the human hand to destroy itself and its environment. We are on a knife-edge to oblivion. Massive cosmic changes seem to be lined up for our solar system to pass through. The delicate balance of natural forces that enables Earth to sustain life, and human existence, may be in acute jeopardy. And in the day-to-day dilemmas of all of us, without exception, we act out the effects of those vast pressures through a collection of behaviours we pretend to be inspired by cock-ups inevitable to the human condition.

Slowly though, if painfully, we realise that if the macrocosm lays down its heavy patterns on the microcosm, the microcosm may, by the alteration of its day-to-day procedures, have some power to change the overwhelming template. We are scree in the foothills of the authoritarian (authority from above) mountain. Its only alternative is the egalitarian (authority-from-below) uprising. This is the simple, but immense proposition locked up in the shift from the symbolic proscenium to the symbolic round. We cannot deny the aeon or its eras their power; we cannot undo the ages our forebears have gone through, in consequence of these larger, untouchable structures, to bring us to this sorry (maybe) but crucial point in time. We can though, even if we are doomed through tardiness to fail, grasp the significance of those patterns working themselves through in our lifetimes, and attempt to rejig them at the point of possibility - now, and all the nows to follow if we are allowed them - if we allow ourselves that common-sensical privilege.

In order to understand it, I have reduced it, for my own benefit and limited ability to grasp, to the story of theatre structure. Of course, the problem is vaster, more awkward and frighteningly more complex than where and how plays are performed. But for a pin-head brain, maybe a pin-hole camera is a good way to begin to understand the changing nature of light.

This is a brief post - for a brief possibility. But, for all my obfuscation so far, I am now at the stage of this argument where something may become clear. I have to go on holiday for a week. I'll be back!