Dear Mr DiCaprio:
I am writing to you today from the dark side of the Doomsday
Clock.
Is it too late? Can all we do now is just mitigate the
inevitable upheaval we legitimately expect: this annihilation of innumerable species
and the irreversible damage – already underway – to our planet. Our place in
the universe is now tenuous at best.
I believe I have ideas which may go directly to resolving
this dilemma of global proportions.
As a professional writer and newspaper publisher since 1978,
I have witnessed with profound discontent the downward swing of civilization
and there it is having proceeded from my generation and now lurking at my
doorstep.
Yes, we can save this earth. There is one word which, with
the leadership of enlightened individuals, can awaken people to having hope
again. We can enjoy enthusiasm again; and even innocence if we could but
implement this word. If we can just drive this peg in.
This letter is not intended as a tease from some
hair-brained egomaniac but a query really as to whether you would enjoy a
dialogue with a man of conscience who is enduring daily the misfiring of the
media with distractions to which the
programmers are witheringly wed. Creating conflict and grief and relentlessly
exposing young minds to this crude display in their movies, TV shows and
throughout the print industry is precisely not what the doctor is ordering. We
are as a people being betrayed and action now needs to be taken.
The resolution(s) I have in mind involve big ideas and in
the working of them, courage. But those few righteous leaders among us may be
given a wider audience crammed with people hungry for information of a nature
which will make them feel useful and allow them to enjoy – with continuity –
participating with Creation. Let’s satisfy their beseeching; and enjoy the
thrill of that: meaningful action.
If interested, get back to me.