Little Foxes

I was in London, in the West End theatre district, Elizabeth Taylor was in the play “Little Foxes”. This was Lillian Hellman's play, which in 1939, Tallulah Bankhead starred. It refers to the scripture found in Chapter 2, Verse 15 in the Song of Solomon in which we are taught it is the little foxes which spoil the vines. This causes us to think of the problems caused by little things. In the movie “Saigon”, starring Alan Ladd, it was a pin hole in a gas tank that caused a plane to put down in an unfamiliar airport thus resulting in the entire plot of the movie. The disease MSRA (flesh eating bacteria) is caused by the pathogen staphylococcus aureas, an extremely small microbe, which can eat away the flesh. It is difficult for a microbiologist to see this bacteria even with the most powerful microscope.

We have an entire science built around nano-technology. Our very lives are influenced by the microchip. Silicon Valley in California was built around this technology. Gigantic predictions forecast microchips in our flesh as we, like zombies or robots, perform like puppets at the behest of our government slave masters. Warfare has changed completely because of small things. All over the Indian Ocean, from the Seychelles to Madagascar, drones are photographing not only the pirates operating from Somalia but oil tankers influencing the geo-politics of the entire world. Politics are the art of the possible. It is the greed element in the very soul of mankind, so very small it is usually camouflaged, which governs the activity of this planet.

It is difficult to go into a living room, a hotel room, a restaurant, even a garage, without having the open sewage line of television operating. Our minds are so clouded with the deceit of today that we cannot think of the possibilities of tomorrow. Why did not someone in Brazil even consider the possibility of 60 million people going without electricity (19 million alone in the city of San Paulo, which is the largest city in South America) because of a small break in the transmission line from the Itaipu hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River. Intelligence would dictate alternative routes, intelligence would dictate the ease with which a terrorist could strike.

It is a small thing, unless you're on a crashed plane, but a United Airlines pilot was arrested in England for drunkenness. Just those who are killed on American highways everyday would be the equivalent of the crash of a 747 every week. Just a small bottle of liquor, perhaps a small barbiturate, perhaps some cocaine, but an irresponsible pilot and crew or vehicle driver, in what is considered a small work detail, can slaughter hundreds at one stroke. Think of the two pilots who completely bypassed their landing airport, such a small thing but a small hole in the fuselage would have necessitated their landing at the nearest airport. Would they, in their small brains, have been able to do the job?

Technology involves small things. Nano units, chemical milli-weights, gene striations. God, creator of everything, knew the ending as well of the beginning of all human experience. Technology has changed the world but human nature has not changed. The world, the flesh, the devil, are using the small creatures against the ultimate creation. Fight the good fight of faith and keep everything in proportion. Perception is not reality.