Time Travellers from the 1960's Pt. 04

Louise talked to Ted one evening, "Healers are the musicians and the artists, and the writers, who make us feel, the men or women who are prepared to be our lovers, the people who are real and make us want to live. The killers are the greedy, the ambitious, the ones who want to devote our lives to barren wastelands of repetitive non life.

"Why is it that Americans, and I suppose all the capitalist world have allowed the healers to be overrun by the oppressors of life? Why can't we be brought into sunlight to enjoy and cherish our gifts instead of wasting so much of our lives for the petty benefit of those who seem not to value our lives as they should?"

He wondered why the world's imperatives, business and success were so removed from the thoughts and priorities which affected or motivated him. So much of business and bureaucracy seemed unnecessary, irrelevant, uninteresting. The real factors in life were ignored. People went to work for years, struggling to succeed or to stay in the race, bored by their lives. The solutions should have been to hand. They wanted meaning, self fulfilment, purpose, sexual or social intimacy. Few found enough of these to satisfy. Instead much of their lives were spent indulging someone else's plan, not attaining their own. What a waste; his own included.

(end of Ch.10)