I'm trying to live a normal life in war time. Yeah the wars have come home. Actually they did that decades ago. It just wasn't in the faces of the white middle class,...so it wasn't happening. Like was said long ago by the 1970's Black Panthers while they we're being exterminated. "What they do to us now they'll be doing to you in 50 years."
They were just about on target.
The collapse of the American standard of living the change in the geo-political map the ethnic demographics changes of not just this nation, but around the world has set loose social chaos. If you know history this happens from time to time. Especially when Empires are in decline, and others are edging in to take their places.
This will be the story of the 21st century.
Add radical planetary climate changes profound technology advancements no one is ready for into the happy stew, and you have what we've got. So think globally, and the big picture starts to gain focus.
A person setting off a bomb tied to his chest in Iraq a child soldier fighting in any of a dozen different countries a former IRS/Postal worker shooting 500 people killing 59 of them in Vegas robots, and AI displacing livelihoods of whole populations,...yeah it starts to make a scary, but not unexpected sort of sense.
The ant hill has had yet another rather large culture shifting stick shoved into it. That, and we're all riding massive seriously fast continental drifts that won't quiet for another 100 years or so,...then another stick.
Till then we have each other.
The long term solution is to be kind as best we can to each other within our circles. Like pebbles in a pond they'll radiate outwards to the world. Annoying new age bullshit at it most typical, but it actually works. ...and it's all we have.
We must each of us in our own way learn to be Saints, and Prophets in Hell.
Amen.
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It's all true, even the new age stuff. There's one other big story that'll fill much of the 21st century: the death of capitalism. Its number is up. Climate disaster may dwarf this, but you gotta look on the bright side.
Z
"It's always been assumed that the evolutionary slope reaches forever upwards, but in fact the peak has already been reached, the pathway now leads downwards to the common biological grave. It's a despairing and at present unacceptable vision of the future, but it's the only one." -J. G. Ballard, "The Voices of Time", 1960
Mind near exhaustion still makes its final futile movement towards that "way out or round or through the impasse".
That is the utmost now that mind can do. And this, its last expiring thrust, is to demonstrate that the door closes upon us for evermore.
There is no way out, or round or through.
-H. G. Wells, "Mind at the End of Its Tether", 1945
sigh,....
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