Civilised?

This is last weeks newsletter if that makes sense! Sorry for the delay but my father-in -law's partner died this weekend and so I found myself temporarily dropped into an environment and experience which is largely alien to me these days!

I count myself fortunate that I have spent very little time in hospital and only ever as a visitor, but having spent a lot of time over the past week visiting a massive NHS hospital in Cardiff I became even more aware of how remote from "normal" life I have become.

If my aspiration has been to be in the world but not of it then by and large I have to be satisfied. I am finding engagement with the necessities (you know the ones, taxes, death, earning a living) less compelling every day. 

If my experience of the past week was a demonstration of a technologically advanced civilised society then I am not so impressed. It seems that those systems and ideologies have taken us so far from who we really are that to be immersed in it left me totally numb. The passing of the current paradigm or my eviction from it seems as inevitable as it is welcome.

The hinterland between the old and the new may feel disorienting and at times uncomfortable, but to re-enter the state of hypnosis necessary to navigate the old is too high a price to pay.

Go easy, tread lightly, stay free 

Bill