Recently I was on a cliff run, stopped at the turning point, sat on a bench and had a satsuma whilst looking out to sea. I put the peel down on the ground while I had a rest and stretch. After which I looked down and there was a minute insect feeding off the pith. I don’t know its name but I’m sure it had its individual characteristics. But anyway, the likelihood is that a bird will eat this insect or else birds will eat members of the insect’s subsequent generations. And the bird droppings will fertilise the ground and in so doing produce food for other creatures, including you and I.
Does humanity really need AI, the internet or a money system? The rest of creation seems to carry on without these. And so did humanity, once.
It could be reasonably argued that there is no reason why the human race, and the future freedoms or even existence thereof should be less exposed to predators than any other life form. How much it should fight for that future is up to humans.
With letters like this you can tell I’m getting old! Between cliff runs I’m in pipe, slippers and glass of cognac mode. And I can see the finish line shimmering above the horizon. But a fact which seems to be being persuaded out of the public eye is that with age comes experience and wisdom. There are many young people who are more switched on to politics and world events, wiser even, than I was at their age. But however switched on they are, they will be distinctly switched on and wiser in 40 years’ time. I’d hate them to enter into politics today and suffering ‘political burn out’ before their political prime. And let’s not forget Hitler’s successful exploitation of the ideology of youth.
MATT WATERMAN
Flat 2, 3 Burnt Lane, St Peter Port
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