“Lend us a hand, friend, as we pick through this rubble here. As we find the pieces so we can put them in some semblance of order so as we might fix them together again.
“What happened? Time, friend. And man. Or his actions over time I should say. Not nature this catastrophe but minds and hands that think and thump and lead us here to this scene. This world in pieces.
“How can we reassemble it? Well that, friend, is the question. That is the heart of the problem. That is why we are here, why we do what we do. Because we don’t know how, our ideas so far have not given fruit, or nothing that doesn’t soon rot anew. Onward ever the struggle!”
“Perhaps you are looking at the problem from the wrong angle, mate. Perhaps it is not these pieces that are broken- not the world physically- perhaps it is the people you need to look at. Maybe that’s what it all means.
“I mean, mate, you say man did this yet you are here with the pieces, at the end product rather than at the root. Perhaps that’s your problem. You’re looking only at a fraction of the picture rather than the whole piece. Or the whole gallery of pieces, perhaps.
“Maybe you need to unite all of the peoples, like the UN but better, rather than focussing on this community that only beats itself up. Or something along those lines. Something with more scope.”
“What happened? Time, friend. And man. Or his actions over time I should say. Not nature this catastrophe but minds and hands that think and thump and lead us here to this scene. This world in pieces.
“How can we reassemble it? Well that, friend, is the question. That is the heart of the problem. That is why we are here, why we do what we do. Because we don’t know how, our ideas so far have not given fruit, or nothing that doesn’t soon rot anew. Onward ever the struggle!”
“Perhaps you are looking at the problem from the wrong angle, mate. Perhaps it is not these pieces that are broken- not the world physically- perhaps it is the people you need to look at. Maybe that’s what it all means.
“I mean, mate, you say man did this yet you are here with the pieces, at the end product rather than at the root. Perhaps that’s your problem. You’re looking only at a fraction of the picture rather than the whole piece. Or the whole gallery of pieces, perhaps.
“Maybe you need to unite all of the peoples, like the UN but better, rather than focussing on this community that only beats itself up. Or something along those lines. Something with more scope.”
Note: I wrote this after watching the film, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist during which Norah talks about the Hebrew phrase, Tikkun olam, meaning "repairing the world."
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