the larger field of knowledge. Their energies may be well
channeled, but they display only a fraction of the creative
innocence and appetite for life and learning of a small child.
(Ardui and Wrycza, The Way of Unfolding)^3What of the future?
Viktor Schauberger realized that the human community had little
time to change its ways and begin to follow Nature's laws, before the
inevitable reckoning that Nature will require of humanity. He had a
rather touching faith in the ability of the younger generation to
overthrow the oligarchies of power. However, in the last fifty years,
the ability of a controlled media, especially television, to manipulate
and undermine cultural behaviour, and the apparent irreversibility
of the drug culture, have discouraged hope of initiatives coming
from the young.^4
The years since Schauberger's death have also seen the tentacles
of multinational corporations reaching into every country in the
world, capitalism at its worst. The capitalist system which has devel-
oped in the past 500 years or so, has brought unprecedented wealth
to millions across the world. This increase in people's individual
incomes (which admittedly expands their choices) has come at the
appalling cost of pulling humanity as a whole out of balance with
its environment; it is the enemy of biodiversity, and therefore of
Nature. Until our human society has more interest in moral and eth-
ical concerns than in making money, we are probably stuck with
capitalism, for state ownership of industry has not always proved
particularly workable.
The other structure with which we seem to be saddled is so-
called democracy, which despite its name, has proved to be nearly
as corrupt a way of centralizing power as any totalitarian system. If
we wish to participate in society, we are committed to some extent
to collude with these systems.
If more choices were made on moral and ethical grounds, rather
than self-interest, the capitalist system might be doomed. However,
if we can begin to see that the engine that drives Nature and its evo-
lutionary processes has its origin in the supreme spiritual centre
and source of all creativity (of which Nature is the mirror), then
our moral principles would have a more stable foundation. Nature
has no morality; but its laws seem to have been designed by theHIDDEN NATURE