Bloomsday for greater humanity

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Leaders from the great plurality of nations, meeting in Switzerland, may have seemed to voice platitudes in their communique, but ask yourself: What can ultimately cohere humanity “fruitful[ly], comprehensive[ly] and constructive[ly]” other than sanctified commitment to the United Nations Charter and fidelity to UN-congruent international law by collaborative global political leadership?

The Summit photo is almost enough: “We are here. ‘High-level’ dialogue will prevail.”

They didn’t say that the ultimacy of UN-oriented law is humanity’s care for and about its future generations on a “careless” Earth which can just as well “witness” the disappearance of humanity. But who can rationally dispute that only collaborative global political leadership can secure planet-scale sustainability, given “a comprehensive, just and lasting peace” everywhere?

“We reaffirm our commitment” as leading voices which appeal to their nations’ own capability for commitment, which implicitly calls for each person’s fidelity to the old adage “think globally, act locally,” but now in specific ways.

By the way, who wonders what exactly is the highness of “high-level”?

Can we each find the highness of humanity integral to our own sense
of being? That’s no abstraction: being alive, being a life, curious, venturous, practical, wanting legacy through one’s children, being remembered as a good ancestor.

I appeal to your highness: Let there be mani-level, manifoldly hori-
zoned, deep, and lasting blooms, this day of James Joyce’s Ulysses (which troped an odyssey of humanity as love of the day) and this Father’s Day in the U.S.—and this old Boomer’s birthday (happy coincidence).