Yes vote is a vote for our future

Whence comes the real danger to our freedom, religion and cause? From ourselves, our unwillingness to see the bigger picture, to hear John Donne’s threatening bell tolling for us — and refusal to grasp the nettle.

Our first lesson very slowly learnt, has been that our species’ mismanagement of this planet has made an environmental doomsday scenario possible, if not probable. Some of us have learnt from the Iraq adventure that old-style big power and unilateralism has endangered us all and not just those sad images from ‘other’ countries we see on television.

What kind of world, what way of life, are we bequeathing to our children and grandchildren? Are we helpless in the face of an historical process hopelessly out of control? Two thousand years ago, because they could not defend their common heritage, the myriad squabbling city states of ancient Greece were overrun by a Roman empire which had its merits but was totalitarian.