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Let me pontificate for awhile.....IMHO the age we are living through right now is one that previous civilizations have all lived through before. I suspect that it spelled the beginning of the end for many of them. I have an ominous feeling that things are going to begin heading downhill at a faster and faster pace. There seems to be just too much chaos in the world, and too many who would worsen that state for their own designs, than hero's who would strive to repair it for everyone's benefit. It feels , at least to me, like the global balance is slipping into an ever narrowing chasm from which we would have to experience extraordinary grace to escape. It feels like the chances are diminishing more and more rapidly.
As an example of what I mean lets look at the recent past where seminal events have occurred.
Events like WW1 & WW2, the explosion of gains in medicine and technology, the polar shifts in pop culture and societal norms. I addition I would include seemingly ordinary human events that represented turning points on the path to where we now find ourselves. Events like the dawn of nuclear weapons, the rise of the minorities, the dawn of AI and robotics. The abilities, no matter how crude, to enter into space by so many means, and the global race to dominate in the crucial areas of tech, space, medicine, and politics. Religion, and the growing distain for it, is part and parcel to the problems of disintegrating family unity at all levels. War trumps peace.
All of this when taken together represent seemingly insurmountable odds for the survival of all that is universally deemed to be good and just.
Societal norms that we have all come to expect over the last 7-10 decades are falling like dominoes and are being replaced with hatred and divisiveness all along the spectrum.
This is not just America, or the "WEST" that I speak of, but the globe as a whole. All countries seem to be spiraling out of control and staggering under the weight of the collective bad decisions that have become a stone about their necks. If you don't look too closely, things can be seen as just okay, or simply tolerable, on the way to good or just fair. Humans are nothing if not ever hopeful individuals.
However, if you look closely at the " Bigger Picture" all about you, then you can begin to see the cracks in our egg.
Going from a few billion to 9 or even 10 billion in population in just a decade or two is a very, very big problem. Our civilization is racing towards something, I cant see what, but something.....and I don't feel like it's going to be good.
What remains to be seen is just what the results will be, of these paths we are all on, that seem to be converging on the way to a watershed event. I pray that what ever that event(s) turns out to be, that human kind will survive it.
As an example of what I mean lets look at the recent past where seminal events have occurred.
Events like WW1 & WW2, the explosion of gains in medicine and technology, the polar shifts in pop culture and societal norms. I addition I would include seemingly ordinary human events that represented turning points on the path to where we now find ourselves. Events like the dawn of nuclear weapons, the rise of the minorities, the dawn of AI and robotics. The abilities, no matter how crude, to enter into space by so many means, and the global race to dominate in the crucial areas of tech, space, medicine, and politics. Religion, and the growing distain for it, is part and parcel to the problems of disintegrating family unity at all levels. War trumps peace.
All of this when taken together represent seemingly insurmountable odds for the survival of all that is universally deemed to be good and just.
Societal norms that we have all come to expect over the last 7-10 decades are falling like dominoes and are being replaced with hatred and divisiveness all along the spectrum.
This is not just America, or the "WEST" that I speak of, but the globe as a whole. All countries seem to be spiraling out of control and staggering under the weight of the collective bad decisions that have become a stone about their necks. If you don't look too closely, things can be seen as just okay, or simply tolerable, on the way to good or just fair. Humans are nothing if not ever hopeful individuals.
However, if you look closely at the " Bigger Picture" all about you, then you can begin to see the cracks in our egg.
Going from a few billion to 9 or even 10 billion in population in just a decade or two is a very, very big problem. Our civilization is racing towards something, I cant see what, but something.....and I don't feel like it's going to be good.
What remains to be seen is just what the results will be, of these paths we are all on, that seem to be converging on the way to a watershed event. I pray that what ever that event(s) turns out to be, that human kind will survive it.
