The Venetians

Centuries ago, they brought back the window dressings from Persia.

Perhaps the world is now blind to Venice. The history washing away… A place richly noted for people and history.

Current events happen to fast to catalogue. The past forgotten in all the upgrades. Sustainability was never an issue a millennium ago. Mankind pressing through expressionism and expanding culture. Wonderful structures and doctrines clearly stating individual discipline. Assimilation is a suggestion in our time. Years past meant risking sacrificing one’s self to dissent.

The extra voices of today have been given irrevocable and boundless access. Drowning out the reason and hierarchy which brought peace. Though it would be challenged. Despite the fighting which proceeded the respite.

Formerly, cultures sought to protect their ideals and fought to conquer. The bloodshed and collateral damage left ecosystems and populations in balance. An overwhelming number of people have saturated the Earth. Heating up our planet. Overpacking a freezer will cause that environment to change. Even mechanized temperature controls have limits.

The diversity of the planet simply repositions everything. Formerly ice, now taking a different form. We forgot about these wonderful regions of the world in the rush to be heard. Elements which now overwhelm and threaten us. So many things for a cause, but nothing worth dying for. A tradition of war which lost its market share decades ago. An ironic curse of trying to live with one another in an environment which will not allow it.

Science doesn’t have an answer today, nor will it ever. The simplicity of elements, numbers, and ecology will destroy the quality of life. There’s arguments and uprisings about “elite” people. Rich folks. The “1%.” Consider that those figures would be the comfortable number of people inhabiting the Earth in previous times. Despite anything monetary or materialistic, climate dictates living conditions. Population has a breaking point. We crossed it.

Climate will always topple the people. Never will that change. The folks who helped revolutionize thought. Structures of timeless art and gold. Slowly being lost like Atlantis into the sea. A world they helped to craft, now victim to the voices for asylum and goodwill. Ecology speaking back at us. Moving chess pieces to counter the human onslaught.

Information pours in about damaging words and violence. The nature of human beings. This competitive species bound to our history. Despite the ignorance of letting history burn and erode, our instincts will bring conflict. Like Venice our tolerant nature will lose ground. Numbers will change.

Venice has been the place of fact and legend from the beginning. Today a world sadly ignores the collective punishment given to our forefathers. A world who watched the Cathedral of Notre Dame burn. Always seeking to find the Ark of Noah… Losing precious visible treasures in a sea of people who are shouting the other direction. Facts in the way of a good story.

Perhaps the city will be another lesson as the ocean rises. Storms surge and fires burn. Another piece of history, one last time, as a city is victim to the sea. Trivially, they are noted for blinds. El Dorado a myth of gold. Two cities remembered with a murky view of details. Blinds are from Persia… The gold was taken to El Dorado and traded for their salt. Our subjective values of gold blinded us in the excursion of fact.

A sensitive world willing to trade out the old for the new and rewrite the story. The abstract idea of truth manipulated for convenience. We will continue to find a new way and lose our way home. A point of no return we crossed a long time ago. This leaves me to mourn. For I would rather hold to the sanctity of what was, than what never will be.