Enlightenment

 We have learned how to illuminate our city but we have not learned how to illuminate ourself.  We have not learned how to become enlightened.  We now have far more light time to get things done, be busier, but not yet any more fulfilled by all this activity.  Before all this artificial light came along, we were encouraged by mystics to enter into the darkness.  That darkness was quite plentiful back then.  The challenge was to just make use of what is there to become enlightened.  It was less about getting things done, our prolonged agenda, and more about being done to by whatever power was to be found in this darkness.  The only darkness I want to escape is the insanity of self-will run riot in my life.  The abundance of light now simply gives me more time to do the unnecessary though I fool myself into thinking it is necessary.  We think we are happier than the pioneer people or who those who live in a desert.  Check the suicide rate and see if this is so.