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    Letter to Martin Hesp

    2nd September, 2005

    Dear Mr Hesp

    Too selfish for collective care

    You give a really wide ranging proof of your contention that real people like us, are so short sighted, as to risk the human race going down the tubes. One simple flaw in your assumption, is that you and I are equally selfish and uncaring. These huge generalities, always seem to apply to someone else and not to us.

    Therefore I must seek your agreement, that although your assumption appears to be true, there is a totally different explanation for our seemingly gormless behaviour. Let us start with the price of petrol and appreciate that over 70 per cent of the traffic on our roads, is for commercial purposes.

    Commerce demands an enormous consumption of fossil fuels, to the extent that most petrol is used as a dire necessity in order to survive. That is obviously a lie, because we can survive very well on very little. Probably survive very much better.

    But we are constantly reminded that our greed knows no bounds and is insatiable. But that is not true of you and it is not true of me.

    What is true, is that billions and billions of pounds or dollars, are spent on advertising and seducing us, so heavily, that we go ever deeper and deeper into debt, to buy what we are told we must have, under hypnotic command.

    The horrible truth is, that we live at a time of global commercial warfare. A war in which there is no respect for human life and no prospect of peace in this bit of Eternity.

    Genocide is now standard operating procedure for survival of the wealthiest.

    Build a great city below sea level, in a flood plain, in the path of known hurricanes, fill that city with unwanted blacks and wait for God to breach the levees.

    Then shuffle the nations feet, whilst we watch them die.

    Our collective guilt is refusing to see the truth of commercial warfare, and in refusing to see its cause and to continue to live our lives in a gridlock, instead of waking up.

    It is time for you to gradually use your enormous success as a journalist, to nudge us into wakefulness.


    Doctor Edward C Hamlyn MBChB