A bit late to day, but then I was late last night, while I aim for my eight hours of sleep every night. My body needs that at its age of seventy eight (78), as I have experienced. So, I know whereof I speak! Now why do I spell speak with ea and speech with ee eh?

We also write speaker who has a speech! Maybe these are old forms relating to first and fourth cases? Only the etymologists know, but they may not say!

So, I know whereof I speak! Now why do I spell speak with ea and speech with ee eh?

I visited Juliet yesterday with shopped groceries and patisserie treats. We then settled down to some dictating and typing of her story, which was followed by her cooked dinner. I had to leave early as I expected a Shaw service call, which never came. But, I did take Juliet’s laptop which refuses to connect to the internet.

This evening I’m invited for dinner at Sarah and BJ’s family home, which is always a good get together, with Alec, Louie and now Sole. There will be talk about the Germanwings crash most likely; that act of human madness in our modern age.

Last night I tried to get my HP-scanner to work, to no avail. However, I then reminded myself of the scan capability of my ‘new’ printer. It did the job at first attempt, which was followed by two more scans of the Maya handout images. Two of these have now been added to my website and are operational with good quality. It made me late last night, but I went to sleep much impressed with myself!

Saturday coffee with Elisabeth and a visit to Future Shop with Juliet’s Dell computer. Coming up Palm Sunday weekend with Easter just one week away, which makes it early this year. But is could be two weeks earlier still!

Today I am combining some of my ideas relating to the Maya and the human capacity for experience. The Maya reference framework is an example of how humans are able to structure their experience world in a functioning way. At the same time does this same Maya culture confront us with a framework that is very different from what was known until the time of encounter.

It confronts us humans with the problem of our diversity, as there are quite a few different such reference frameworks around the globe. And, even though each is a construct much to be admired, it also presents us with the problem of mutual accommodation in our world today. This is difficult to do, as we are experiencing.

It may help if we can formulate a model for this situation’s development over time. Here follows my suggestion.

The human conscious capacity and capability is limited, which combines with differences in the experience world for each and every individual. Just think of siblings have differences in ages and genders in most cases.

Given a certain basic starting capacity and framework we add to that as we experience our lives. Though those new experiences may share common factors there are certain uncontrolled aspects to the new experience during our life. We adapt differently to this differing experiences, even though we try to make them fit into shared frameworks, since we are social as a species.

The frameworks are needed to simplify our experience world and deal with it efficiently. They also provided their members with a group and individual identity, which all have certain differences. This differences arise from the differences in our life histories, conditions and capabilities as mentioned earlier.

So having identities and frameworks is inescapable and equally so are the differences between them. As a tongue in cheek description I could say that we humans on our planet today are working on a puzzle with poorly fitting pieces which have many shapes, sizes, colours and smells even!

This is the last of the Maya lessons and I hope we can all graduate!

The problem is ours and we cannot get away from it any more than we can force a single solution on the many. We have to adapt to our own diversity, which is our formed heritage, as I argued in the above paragraphs. If we try to apply the ‘one fit all’ solution, we will destroy ourselves and loose all we have achieved.

The Maya survived five hundred years of suppression with all its aspects and are now engaged, reinvigorated with newly acquired skills and insights in their and our new age of diversity. Other aboriginal or indigenous or autochthonous human societies are offering us similar object lessons in human evolution for survival. We better learn from this, lest we moderns forget our roots with all our know-it-all, know-how and fail in the end.

This is the last of the Maya lessons and I hope we can all graduate!
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