spectatorship * 1/10/14

For humans as a species, 

spectatorship is an indulgent form 

of old school entitlement.

Although it appears to be a cornerstone for entertainment, 

it represents a passive form

of doing as a means of omission and avoidance.

Bees don’t spectate.

You won’t see ants or bird spectating.

Even herds, flocks, droves or packs 

don’t actually spectate in their migratory runs.

But we do.

We reserve the right 

to ignore a greater sense of needs planetaraly, 

so to speak, to myopically invest 

in our culturally endowed spectator sports by observation.

For all the ways and means at our disposal

to care for the planet hands on,

to care for each other directly,

to care for other species and the interactional environment 

we are only players in,

we, in the grandest sense of species participation, 

baulk at the chance, deny the need, claim overwhelm, 

or lack towards the shortsighted benefits from doing at all. 

Can you imagine yourself, living on a planet

in which every one gives and receives bodywork 

on a weekly basis?

A planet where the notion for humans about free time, 

is an opportunity to go out somewhere 

and somehow share and contribute to a greater cause 

on planet recovery?

We are lulled into believing it is larger than

our daily life can participate in directly.

Unless it is for direct financial gain,

why would we bother(?)

is a top 3 priority,

highly but privately cultivated as self defined.                             We have contrite motives as a whole.

Yes, there are individuals who grandly take up the cause          

in spite of what surrounds them.

In general, entertainment is a perversity 

that humans agree to as titillation or drama or  

restimulations of traumas to pass the time.

Being in character and acting out 

are assumptions learned as we are televised. 

Service to others, caring for another species, 

helping the planet directly in promoted 

or avoidance ways seems remote or too vague 

to take as a serious influence affecting the whole.

To personalize a world view

and then live into it as a way of life

is a necessity calling.

Every next person you meet

is essentially, part of that worldview in action.