On not shedding a tear

Writing to my Wise and Generous Parents on creatures of the Blue Planet:
"greed: taking more than one needs"

hat in the human condition blinds you to stumbling weakened neighbors fading beneath an overladen dinner table?

Here Earth stands stubbornly enigmatic, its gluttony unattenuated in paucity's face.

And what passes for deep self-honesty on this glittering blue-green globe would earn derision in the cosmos' even lesser garrisons.

One can only gaze somberly at images folding human disparity ferninst.

What beasts are so unable and unwilling to accept a broad empathic view, or concede every simple action resounds through the planet's shimmering curve to leech sustenance from the disadvantaged.

Till my early observations sailed home to ghasted disbelief, such greed, avarice, and callous indifference stood inconceivable. An ugly possibility, but no more so than sun extinguishing spontaneously, or daughter birthing mother .. oh yes, that did happen, on Sigmus IV.

Our noosphericists stand dismayed and bemused.

Of civilizations discovered, created, or simulated, natural development invariably follows a pattern they term the "sentience funnel," deviation from which - apart from unknown - is societally fatal.

The funnel, analogous to a river, sees evolutionary phyla cease splitting, instead combining under the influence of intelligent "free will." Why sentient species no longer diverge is bound by both selective tendency and emergent precepts deep within anthropomorphic principle.

Rivers may split on flood plain or at delta, and in terminal phases, but their essence - a burn's bourn, if you will - is to gather, to combine, and grow in strength and unity. Earth's civilization is developing in reverse, dividing into rivulets as it flows, unraveling.

To fragment into discord and dispute where your world now teeters is symptomatic of pathologically-flawed DNA that will demand supreme, saint-like achievement to survive.

In this disquieting mix greed dominates your behavior, and you stand like beasts bereft of choice and self-awareness.

At the simplest personal level, with few praiseworthy exceptions, all shirk the simple act of sharing with others more destitute.

At organization level you embody greed as creed in missions governmental and corporate, then mysteriously sculpt these two primary arms of human progress as mindless masters, to which you equally and mindlessly acquiesce.

It is ancient knowledge that "intelligent" species possess brain capability well beyond operational needs, while equally, intelligence is a function of nurture. Even in your paltry paradise a rare few rebel educators and loving parents have demonstrated this by noble and ingenious experiment.

Yet decade after century of corrupt and craven creatures crawl from cess pits of social decay to perpetuate the stench that passes for civilization on Earth.

Weapons, armaments, superfluous luxury, and waste, starve their stunted idiot relative - Education.

Even should this gross deformity be fed funds to excess, its flawed directives would gain little for its fodder. Since its birth a century ago it has learned little of value to offer its charge - your children, your future's only hope.

Unless simple honesty applies, education will never drag your offspring from the muddy pen in which you gorge. Break the loop, or break your planet.

In a fashionable backhand, dear esteemed parents, I ask them "What part of gluttony do you not understand?"

With Respect and Love
Your Beloved Son