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Basic Needs
NMB, Florida October 11, 2001 A.H. Schectman
THINKING ALLOWED
Essays on Issues, Ideas and Reflections on the Times. Published Now and
Then. Opinions Pro or Con Are Welcome.
BASIC NEEDS
I got to thinking about the dashed hopes of many of us about those buried a
month ago in the Twin Towers collapse. People buried in a pocket of space
in compressed debris have only a couple of basic needs - aside from care for
their wounds. They need air and knowledge.
Throughout the history of our human kind men have been digging in the earth
for its treasures. Frequent loss of life to cave-ins and explosions under
the surface have never kept brave or desperate men from going back down. We
all fear that helplessness that comes when deprived of air to breathe and
knowledge of how close salvation might be. Smelling fresh air and hearing
voices of people trying to help are what we need most.
Basic needs for miners are a metaphor for the basic needs of all of us
above ground. We need air to breathe and the sound of rescue. Both bring us
knowledge that we have not been abandoned or ignored and give us hope we
will be freed. We sometimes are in a prison of sad circumstance our fears
make worse.
Throughout the world thinking people have been thrust into small pockets of
safety with the collapse of mighty buildings. Fear is the strongest emotion
left to us. We stop thinking. We are in a deep hole where we find that we
need to have freedoms and all the information we can get in order to feel
and be free. Our opponents who have placed us here have, it seems, more
knowledge than we do. They know that if they set off a bomb we will flee in
a direction where they set a trap to finish us off. We do not think this
way.
We have to get above ground and look at the sky, sun, moon and stars and
feel that no subversion of our Democracy will ever be successful in the long
run. We have been locked in a hole deep under ground and our air is getting
thin and we don't know if we are near to being rescued. What we need is to
get used to breathing on our own and avoid the traps set for us by the
terrorists and people of ill will who think in terms of a Satan, devils and
hell. Carol's Evaluation: 10 out of 10.
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