TAKE THE MORAL OF THE `NARCISSUS' STORY

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, February 17, 1992                   TAG: 9202170231
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-8   EDITION: METRO 
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TAKE THE MORAL OF THE `NARCISSUS' STORY
BIN THINKIN' 'bout the e-con-o-mee & plotishuns fixin' up the recesshun.
Develope, develop, devil-op! Push out wildlife habitats, destroy the food chain. Spray to kill the bugs; kill the bugs that feed the birds that eat the bugs and die from the spray. Let all become extinct but me.
Used to be somethin' we called "Balance of Nature." We understood and revered it. We taught it in our schools and read stories that had a moral in them. (Shh - that word is unmentionable today. It means truth.) But today, man has become so bigheaded that he sees nothin' but his system.
One favorite story was "Narcissus." A beautiful Greek youth saw his own reflection in the water of a fountain and fell in love with it. (Read the rest of the story for yourself.) In psychiatry and psychology today, the term narcissism means excessiv love and admiration for oneself - vanity in Old Testament term; ego problem in today's world. Seems like this is a common sickness of our societee.
So forget Nature, forget our grandchildren, save our sick e-con-o-mee. Let Earth die.
But Nature will win before she dies; before Earth becomes a cinder. GERTRUDE H. SIGMON FERRUM

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB