It’s easy to imagine O’Hare cabbies betting on how long it will take their tourist fares to think their ride has already “reached the city.” No wonder, when just a few minutes out they witness a line of towering glass and steel office buildings, flashing hotels and thickening traffic. I know the feeling, for I moved here a short 50 years ago when most of this space was still only open fields and scattered houses.
We hear a lot about orbits of human energy: the West Wing, the recent women’s march, Silicon Valley. One walk through the energy throbbing inside this compact few square miles, and you are caught up into its orbit. Given the million-plus daily flights overhead, coupled with the thousands of office workers and hotel guests below, you quickly understand why hundreds of national conferences and seminars are held each year in its many convention spaces. Events that bring together some of the keenest minds and missions from both corporate and scientific America.
There are times when we all experience connections with the spaces in our lives. This international airport and its surrounding space together constitute a dynamic instrument for change. Not so much political change, but rather paradigm change. Pushing forward the discovery of our best cognitive and spiritual selves in time to meet an onrushing future.
In our young century, the old notions of territoriality and ownership, nationalism and patriotism, race and religion are inexorably dying. As Soren Kierkagaard wrote: “He who fights the future has a dangerous enemy.” If there are eyes that can see that future, they will be the eyes of youth. Youth which is always bound to be in conflict with the old authorities. Not unlike the youth of another time and space: The 16th C streets of Galileo.
Not unlike the youth who gather here year-round …
Jack Spatafora
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