Whirled in action.

I was feeling a little out of sorts so trawled round what other people were blogging to get some sort of inspiration. I read this post over here and it got me thinking. As ever that got me blogging again. Funny how that works.

Anyway, back to the post itself.

With all that's going on at the moment (war, bombings, tsunami, Katrina, bird flu, etc, etc) I find myself more and more thinking that it's simply the ecosystem finding ways to balance itself out.

You know all those "foxes and chickens" simulations that have been around since the 70's ? That's the sort of thing. Whenever one single thing becomes too big nature finds a way to scale it back. Sometimes it's controlled from within and sometimes from an external force. Always controlled though.

It's all at different scales too. Mould on a surface, families in a street, empires on one or more continents, species.....all subject to the same thing.

As much as we think we're superior enough to have full control over our world we're still animals on the planet. Yeah, we have bikes and cushions and tanks and jello but we're still part of the system and not above it.

With the rising population is it no real wonder that something gives ?

I'm not absolving us from blame though. We're obviously doing all we can to accelerate things happening to us - that is where our stupidly blind human superiority complex comes in. Still though I wonder if even that, our actions, are part of the system in place.

I guess I'm in the sort of period in my life where I'm already looking for pointers towards the what's, where's and how's and all these things - all automatically given the "disaster" tag by lazy media without even checking a thesaurus - focus my view outside my own situation.

Only natural I guess.....like everything else.........