Allmost Human

In one of my earlier blogs i made referance to B. Traven and his incredible
skills as a novelist,inspiring one fellow writer to make a strong case that "Traven's"
novel "The Death Ship" is the greatist novel ever written.The article appeared in
the New York Time's Book Review.However,i'd like to make some further points
concerning Traven's more well know work-"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
which first was a bestselling novel and then became a big hit Movie starring "Humphrey Bogart",Tim Holt,Walter Huston with Huston's son John Huston in the Director's chair.The aspects of the film that make it such a compelling story is the the fact that
Simply by putting gold in the equation-At least one of the charactors,who is normally
just simple honest man,goes insane,by contracting what miners call "Gold Fever".The
character that loses his mind is the one played by Humphrey Bogart who,both in the
novel and the film,is known as "Dobb's".When we first meet Dobb's at the begining
of the story-there's are no signs at all that he is or could ever become insane to the
the degree that he does latter in the film.It's only after the three miners hit a mother-
lode of gold that Dobb's starts to lose it completely.
He becomes so unraveled that he actually ends up murdering one of his friends
{the Tim Holt character}at least he believes he did-actually it turns out that the Holt
character was only wounded and survive's,but Dobb's thinks he's dead.
So in essence what we have here is a story or a legend that is relevent to every-
age-but seems epecially suited to the state we find the world in today.Greed seems to
have takin' hold of nearly every good man,woman and child on earth and it shows no signs
of letting loose.How on earth did the people of this fragile planet get to such a low point
of moralistic behavior.
Unfortunatly there are no singular or simple answers.However reading a book such
as "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" would definatly be a good place to start.At least
then we could have some context to examine why greed has become so rampent in
our modern world.Just because greed is at an all time high now;doesn't mean it allway's
must remain this way.We hold the fate of the whole world in our small hands and in our
in the 10% of our brain that we use.Perhaps someone-somewhere is finding the secret
To unlock the riddle of why we only use 10% of our brain capacity-in the average human.
It could even be that someone has discovered how to switch on the 90% we don't use,
And therefore the answer to why humans are so suseptabile to the power of greed.
Maybe it's just wishful thinking,But,Maybe it's not.

Written by Pete Holly-Copyright-2010-all rights reserved