Obama, all politicians have prairie-sized holes in their world views

The oil companies fight like ravening ogres for every inch of the earth they can destroy for oil. The government kowtows to ranchers who want to kill wolves, coyotes and other life on adjacent lands to their lands, which now exist as despot-ruled nations within our larger nation. "Environmentalists" and others who see the need for different goals, for a different world -- they are voices in the wilderness. In fact there is a new kind of wilderness made up of massed and growing intertwined channellings of moneys and other resources for the rich and powerful and decreasing life -- indeed decreasing chance for survival -- of those who do not belong to the rarefied and degraded world of the new emperors. Today another appeal to "personalize" the Arctic drilling protest letters to the president. I wrote the following precede. "An enormous empty space in the president's world view has to do with his lack of consciousness about the web of life and the necessity of guardianship rather than destruction of the earth, with all its participants, including those humans ignorantly label as "other ... wild ... unnecessary ... disposable ... inconvenient" and so on. When we were younger in evolution one of our primary goals was killing for protection and for food. THINGS HAVE CHANGED. The human population-- billions of us; the human technical ability -- mass destruction and killing made effortless; the earth's status -- a living entity under continual gargantuan assault. These factors illustrate the need for a new perspective, a new consciousness. Our thrashing around in the web of life is atavistic,out of date, redounding to the threatening of life itself for our descendants. The questions are: Who or what will awaken us? How can we move to the position of guardians rather than destroyers? The babies born now, the grandchildren now growing up -- they will no doubt be living when the waters rise. This matter is not far away, it is as close as anything has ever been. And oh, yes, that empty mental and moral space exists in the views of almost all politicians -- but we expected more from this unquestionably brilliant president. Though we do know the brilliant can be blind -- worse, they can be ruled by pragmatism that, when continually appeased, grows continually to narrow the boundaries of thought."