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Finally, look to your leaders
December 20, 2009 | 05:50 PM

Finally, the failure of the opposition to the telescope could be a teachable moment for Maui's spiritualists. I invite you to reflect on how you set the conditions for your voices to carry no weight. The records are all there on-line, in cultural impact assessment hearings, and in clips such as youtube's (search, for example, "Maui telescope clip0100).

The way I see it, by insisting that spirituality cannot be mitigated, and that there could be no middle ground, your leaders lead you down a path to failure. The scientists and academics who want to build this thing don't need to be called rapists and colonizers; invalidating them was not necessariy or beneficial for anyone--anyone but them. By crying and finger-pointing, and postuing as the self-righteous, your self-styled spiritual leaders (such as the ever-present Lei'ohu Ryder) made themselves look ignorant and childish. So, I invite Maui to reconsider who is asking to be revered, who claims to be the more sacred and holy, and to take this set-back of the telescope as an opportunity for true spiritual growth and greater maturity, so that society on Maui as a whole can be more adult and set a better example for the keiki.

ex-Maui