Do we know more
and more about less and less? St. Paul knew less and less about more and more;
he liked it that way. Disaster equation: all knowledge plus all wisdom minus
all love equals tragedy. We live in tragic times.
I recall Brautigan’s poem on
‘cybernetic ecology’ All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. They’re here,
not as foreseen. They know more and more and especially ever more about us.
They know the truth and the false and dish out either impartially.
We need real mothers, not machine
mothers. Absent real mothers, we have the Mother of God, the Lady of Grace. To
have real mothers, we need real lovers, not machine lovers. I recall Aquinas
who knew everything in the 13th century. After a vision at the end
of his life, he wrote nothing more: ‘After what has been revealed to me, all I
have written seems to me as straw’. Yet Jesus also spoke to Thomas, saying “You
have written well of me.’ This is the straw spun into gold by the lady in the
tower who escaped by climbing down a rope made of her own golden hair. Seeing,
sensing, hearing, knowing.
