Where are we now?

With no pride in our selves,
Our forefathers
Our accomplishments

How can we grasp who we are?

Looking at a screen on a computer
Linked across the planet
Using physics and mathematics and engineering and logistics and negotiated agreements and electricity and etc

Our accomplishments look right back at us.

The whimsical and desperate
Continue clamouring for
The one true god

That singular portal to the after-life.

With no awareness of what we are now
Our skills
Our own human promise

We stay blind to our own brilliance.

Religion long since died
As a way to be moral.
Common law triumphed centuries since

This resurrected zombie of half-known hope.

Look at reality
Right in the face
Note each jagged edge and silken surface

Take your head out of your arse

And look at where we are now:
Floundering between unrealistic ideologies
Blundering into more bloody wars

Doomed: repeating history.

We have a choice:
Objective evidence, reason, accountability and
Least possible harm

Step back from vexations and umbrage
Dip your head beneath the surface
Look at the secular points which bind us:

Let reality guide us to yet more great achievements.