Dear Miri,
Thank you for the ‘virtual embryo’ which I received, a ‘baby in waiting’ I will call it. A future baby for humankind, who is waiting to wake up in a healthy city of the future.
There the birth is natural, the light is not blinding, and the first touch is not that of rubber gloves. There breastfeeding is encouraged, all the time and as much as possible.
There children never sleep alone. They are touched frequently and are not forced to eat anything.
The schools in the city of the future are suited to all kind of children, even those who do not like to play a lot, who love to build things with their own two hands, schools where there is no place for suffering. Children should never be made to suffer by angry adults who are always in a bad mood.
In the school one can learn Tai Chi, grow vegetables and the parents help to decide the learning material.
They dance a lot, in that far away city, the atmosphere is relaxing, there is more freedom in the air and sexual relationships are permitted long before the age of twenty.
There is less violence on TV and more programs about nature. On the radio, you will hear relaxing world music and parts of lectures given by wise people on all subjects.
After ten thousand years of human civilization, not a single city like that has been built.
Until it does this embryo will be kept protected in his square basket.
Protected and kept until all the days of war and suffering will be over, and humanity will mature and think about what our future children will really need, the children who are now ‘in waiting’.
Nissim Amon
