Re: flawed mindsets?

["Marasigan . Vicente" <vic@pusit.admu.edu.ph>]

On 16 Dec 1998, Roberto Verzola wrote:
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> Let me start with a simple example: the architectural wonder called an
> anthill. How do ants create an anthill? 
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Building on Roberto's analogy of the anthill, I extend it to this
fantasy: One anthill is levelled to the ground by a bulldozer.  A few
surviving ants decide to relocate to another mindset in which to build
another anthill, a mindset far away from dysfunctional organisms that
use bulldozers for their flawed operations.  The new mindset still
maximizes gain, but "gain" that is not exclusivist; this gain is for
the benefit of all organisms on the planet.

One bulldozer-using species, isolated in its planned and unplanned
exclusivity, is observed, through centuries of fluctuations between
progress and decline, to reduce itself into a slum and then into a
garbage dump, where the surviving ants now crawl around, scavenging
for recyclable DNA molecules to add to their behavioral programs for
building a new anthill that is more sustainable for long-term
survival.

They invent a new economy that circulates - not money -  but energy
certificates.  These work well for a while and the anthill becomes an
edenic garden.  But a few ants, having ingested dysfunctional DNA from
the garbage dump, now find a way of forging certificates, amassing
tremendous gain but keeping the gain exclusively for their
corporation's forging operations.  Ants not infected by the flawed DNA
are now examining these dysfunctions, learning from the mistakes of
ant history.

I submit this fantasy to suggest that corporate gain, even if
unplanned and blameless, has become dysfunctional if it continues to
ignore the function of stewardship for all organisms on our planet.

As I submit this post today, cable-TV is heating up with the Baghdad
fireworks, and I begin wondering whether the ant species will inherit
the earth as the dominant oil-hungry species continues in its flawed
thinking and living in dysfunctional exclusivism.

Vicente Marasigan