Being a confirmed logical athiest I have never looked upon any arcane writings as being anything other than human generated history or speculation and certainly there have been many countdowns to an imagined apocalypse or judgement day put forward by delusional self-declared prophets over the past 2,000 years. BUT....
Being a confirmed logical athiest I have attempted to gather information and evidence which has supportive data and is testable and verifiable. Fourty years ago during a sojourn in San Francisco my reading of the library determined that the environment and population were fast becoming the crisis that would limit or decrease human well-being, but in the four decades since that personal awakening, the blind wandering of our species toward its own demise has accelerated. We have leaped over the precipice and are in free fall.
Virtually all family, friends and social contacts, in their most candid and thoughtful moments agree with this assessment and have speculated as to what event or set of circumstances will constitute the crash-landing. Is a crash-landing the End Days?....hmmm
Will it be a slow boiling of the frog-in-a-pot global warming? Will it be an economic meltdown brought about by debt defaults or hyper-inflation? Could it be a changing climate induced crop failure causing food shortages? Perhaps a military incursion by an emerging super-power or a threatened aging empire? Perhaps an accidental mutation of a contagious disease or even a planned release of a "population thinner". A nuclear excange, political extremism, food fishery disappearance, water shortage, species extinction...etc, etc.
I put the blame for this nightmare horror upon the system that demands unlimited growth...the throne of corporate capitalism.
What is common with all those possible scenarios is the resultant effect it or they could have upon the social cohesion of our society, our families, communities, nation and planet. Indeed, the most basic ethic of conservative economics, that sees competitive self-interest at the very root of behavior, may well come to pass and see us all at each others throats fighting for survival and the last BigMac. It is a ****ty scenario and it disgusts me that our stupidity, intentional blindness and greed has brought about this decaying corruption, but the question I want to ask members here is...To what extent can we here in Canada insulate ourselves from the gun-toting, racially charged mayhem that could arise south of the 49th? Depending on where you are in Canada and how cohesive the community is and how self sufficient in food production and equitable distribution will determine the level of violence. And here's the kicker for the conservative capitalists....The more you share the safer you'll be.
A pox upon them and all who vote for them.
Being a confirmed logical athiest I have attempted to gather information and evidence which has supportive data and is testable and verifiable. Fourty years ago during a sojourn in San Francisco my reading of the library determined that the environment and population were fast becoming the crisis that would limit or decrease human well-being, but in the four decades since that personal awakening, the blind wandering of our species toward its own demise has accelerated. We have leaped over the precipice and are in free fall.
Virtually all family, friends and social contacts, in their most candid and thoughtful moments agree with this assessment and have speculated as to what event or set of circumstances will constitute the crash-landing. Is a crash-landing the End Days?....hmmm
Will it be a slow boiling of the frog-in-a-pot global warming? Will it be an economic meltdown brought about by debt defaults or hyper-inflation? Could it be a changing climate induced crop failure causing food shortages? Perhaps a military incursion by an emerging super-power or a threatened aging empire? Perhaps an accidental mutation of a contagious disease or even a planned release of a "population thinner". A nuclear excange, political extremism, food fishery disappearance, water shortage, species extinction...etc, etc.
I put the blame for this nightmare horror upon the system that demands unlimited growth...the throne of corporate capitalism.
What is common with all those possible scenarios is the resultant effect it or they could have upon the social cohesion of our society, our families, communities, nation and planet. Indeed, the most basic ethic of conservative economics, that sees competitive self-interest at the very root of behavior, may well come to pass and see us all at each others throats fighting for survival and the last BigMac. It is a ****ty scenario and it disgusts me that our stupidity, intentional blindness and greed has brought about this decaying corruption, but the question I want to ask members here is...To what extent can we here in Canada insulate ourselves from the gun-toting, racially charged mayhem that could arise south of the 49th? Depending on where you are in Canada and how cohesive the community is and how self sufficient in food production and equitable distribution will determine the level of violence. And here's the kicker for the conservative capitalists....The more you share the safer you'll be.
A pox upon them and all who vote for them.
