Dust to Dust
Through Hardship and Grandeur’s Plight

In the words of Joseph Campbell, the greatest of Historians and Mythologists, as well as a wise and beautiful person: To Quote:  “In the End – Nothing Matters”.

Dust to Dust, you must realize is our Physics Truth, beyond that is unknown. But any such denial only perpetuates evil and ignorance, not good or knowledge.

“The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance…”
– Socrates

When we accept this premise of our inevitable and total demise and live solely in the moment then we work for goodness, otherwise only the opposite to a good or a god-like state of being will ever exist…

This is not a message of despair, but I see it as a message of glory and fortitude, to move the knowledge of our humanity forward, most likely through some vehicle of science our technology will prosper in the now and later – in our own ways and in own times and in multitudes of all times expanding futures…  But that is my Hope, not a known reality.  I would hope it need not be only our future, as Physics today describes: the changing of the guard and the inevitable erosion of life as we know of it, in Billions of years to come.
This is our home and our reality.  Not a candy-coated fable…

Change is all that is constant… Without Change we would be forever trapped in an infinite jail; therefore Life and Death of all things is essential for growth and freedom.

And despite the reality that our world and all its Majestic Glories, Landscapes and Values will someday pass away. Perhaps with our endeavors to do right and improve on knowledge, we may pass on to the next “Birth of Creation”, our knowledge, our hopefully ever improving humanity, and save the future from many of our current hardships and failures, as we hopefully advance as a more balanced and decent set of living race(s), and species. Inevitably, I hope and anticipate such a manifestation…

It is obvious, that we as Planet Earth, have evolved with great imbalance and likewise balance, through hardship and fortune. And our future is truly unwritten, but we have, beyond our disgraces to humanity, with the “Holocaust, and our past and even current Cultural Rituals that have disgraced this life of ours, which showed “Not to do Harm”, our Hippocratic Oath, is I believe through Leadership and Science moving forward, but regrettably far to slow…

With Great and Engaged Leaders, we will someday prevail, coupled with the grace of the bright side of Science. However, it is a Shame on us however, that World, Religious and Secular Leaders have taken more efforts and time to protect themselves than, engage with solidarity – for the masses – in this most essential of all human battles…

One of the worlds greatest enemies is that of “Group-Think” or equally the same “Political Correctness” of organizations that deny True Freedom of Thought, and wield their paltry intellectual powers for ignorance that results in evil, slothfulness of true honesty, and sadness, that creates ego’s dispositions as sacrosanct, manifesting wars – in the end, rather than understanding and unity… 

I cherish those that disavow this perversion of knowledge…

Russ Otter 2/2018