None so blind
as those who will not see
Irene Cooper
Irene Cooper
The invention of printing was remarkable in view of millennia of hoof prints outside and muddy foot prints indoors.
The blindingly obvious is all around us, yet there is something in the Nature of Mankind that prevents "normal" people from seeing the truly innovative
.Only the "mad scientist" is capable of penetrating the mental fog we live in, to see something different.
Perhaps it is that we are distracted by the myth of the moment.
We Live in a very strange world. We live our lives within the comforting cradle of mind-blanking electronic entertainment media. Some merely blank out, ears glued to downloads when travelling.
In a fully literate society most people read, while on public transport and so do not look at anyone any longer. I met a man reading, as he walked through a busy street. "I always do", he said.
Our entire being inwardly digesting, all manner of irrelevant trivia: we no longer observe and "ponder anew".
An Indian friend of mine asked why the Churches are empty. "Television!", I said.
Our mental landscapes are different to both rural India and historic England.
In the "Olden Days" our minds were full of Hymns, Psalms, Bible stories, the lives of the Saints and all the country lore of these Islands.
Our ears were assailed by street hawkers calling their wares, the sounds of iron rims and hooves on cobbles, the creak of leather harness and all those animal sounds, now vanished for ever.
Every creature under the sun in every land upon Earth, has its associated tale or fable.
Generations passed and the mental fog remained, until grinding poverty set fire to bloody revolution and thinkers only began to question the "Status Quo" at the very moment of its turmoil.
"Ex terra, lucem" from the earth came light.
From the pits :coal. From the coal steam and enormous power.
From the pits :coal. From the coal steam and enormous power.
Realise now that even the most modern of nuclear power stations is merely a steaming kettle, blowing a fan to spin a magnet inducing an electrical current in a wire.
So we are still in the mental climate of the era that beheaded the crowned heads of Europe.
There are glimmers of a change in the minds of men.
Evangelists claim that U.K is now entirely pagan hence the Right Reverend delight at the arrival of the Religious Poles.
Joe Public is so far removed from the thrall of his serfdom that he is quite baffled by any concept of aristocracy.
So Jesus is Lord now seems to lend itself to a bygone Era!
