Does mick have time?
I am told about climate change and how serious it is, and how big changes are coming. I am told that we are moving into unchartered territory as a species, that this time is unique, and that big changes are happening and bigger changes are about to happen.
I am in a classroom. The teacher in the class asks us all a question -
"Which Countries in the world need the most help?"
Some people make some heartless comments like "oh spains economy is in a bit of a mess," and such like.
I am aware that all people need help - I keep trying to make comment which keeps getting interrupted - this old lady keeps talking over the top of me.
Finally I get to speak -
"all people in all countries need help, yes, some seemingly more than others, the Zimbabwean people , the people in the middle east, the far east, all the Siberian peoples, the Tibetan peoples, but all people really"...
I an thinking of how the developed nations need help with empathy.... Tears are in my eyes, I feel ashamed for my emotional state, I hide my tears from the rest of the class, but I know that they know I'm crying, and think low of it. I on the other hand can't think of the sufferings in the world without getting emotional, and most of all, I am sad and crying not because of the sufferings in the world but
because of the lack of soul- the lack of the ability that these people in this class have to empathise with what is going on, this is the main source of my tears.
Teacher of the class is wearing interesting robe. Asks if people like Yeats poetry. I know a few poems...
He writes a cryptic poem on the blackboard
'Inside and down or outside and up and downside or in and upside or out'
He then rewrites it in a new form and shows us the secret meanings in it.
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