Dear Editor,
For 10,000 years the crux of the difficulty concerning human coordination with the liferealm has been centralized control.
Greedy humans have made up their own thought-pictures concerning what life is about. These prejudices demand all other humans to serve these prejudices.
The centralized “intelligence” in the national government or perhaps in the rumored “world government” cannot tell people how to coordinate with their localities. They cannot do this by sending out the representatives of their thought-pictures to places and peoples they know little of.
No thinking resident of Bighorn Sheep Canyon seems to be for the “over-the-river” project here in Colorado. I have wondered how any controller could be for it. It would be another blow – this time to the beautiful canyon, to the Arkansas River and to life in the ocean.
Perhaps someone wants another fiasco so that they can blame the local people for stupid handling of the environment. Then they can demand centralized control.
Beware of irrational ideas that could push centralized control onto local areas.
The Bighorn Sheep Canyon must not be made into a national park to be controlled by those who seek commercial or power gain for a fantasy way of life. There is only so much artificialization of nature that the Earth can take. Maybe controllers have passed that limit already.
For instance, all the negative probabilities of the over-the-river project have been causing unnecessary worry, perhaps even neurosis, in our canyon’s population. Outside controllers have not considered the psychological well-being of our canyon’s adults, nor especially of our children.
Judith E. Hicks
Howard, Colo.
