A Quick Thought on the End of the World
The more I read, the more I hear, the more I discuss this "end of the world" we're supposedly within a half decade of, I have come to the following conclusion: if our days as a growing, thriving species are numbered, then I see the "end of the world" are rather the point of no return where numerous evens have occurred to take us towards depletion or extinction. It won't be a single event and I feel that we, like with Y2K, will wait in anticipation of something that will not come, while that which has will go unobserved, and by then it will be too late to turn back.
Cancer. AIDS. Global warming. Super bugs. WMD's. These are the potential threats we face today, and a disturbingly large assortment of options to choose from. We're due for major civil unrest somewhere in the world. We're due for a major conflict (WW3 is supposed to be one of the ways we're supposed to do ourselves in). We've been due for a stock market crash that, and it acutally worries people that it hasn't hapened; China could make this happen if they felt pressured enough, and everyone knows it now. At what point will any one of these going to break loose and touch off a chain reaction from which we escape with only few survivors?
I'm genuinely curious to see what we face in December 2012, as I know that, as a species, we're simply too small-minded to be able to see the wave coming to stave off disaster before then. *smirks* maybe we'll tip the barrel over if nothing happens anyway, simply out of frustration and spite. I'd want to survive and be considered useful in such heady times, and hope to be able to reach enough of the right people before its too late to get me to where that can happen. This post isn't about spreading panic, only awareness that we find ourselves in the most troubled times in our history and that if a dark time is to befall us soon that I hope that we each can see its coming and make ready for it.
That is all.
Cancer. AIDS. Global warming. Super bugs. WMD's. These are the potential threats we face today, and a disturbingly large assortment of options to choose from. We're due for major civil unrest somewhere in the world. We're due for a major conflict (WW3 is supposed to be one of the ways we're supposed to do ourselves in). We've been due for a stock market crash that, and it acutally worries people that it hasn't hapened; China could make this happen if they felt pressured enough, and everyone knows it now. At what point will any one of these going to break loose and touch off a chain reaction from which we escape with only few survivors?
I'm genuinely curious to see what we face in December 2012, as I know that, as a species, we're simply too small-minded to be able to see the wave coming to stave off disaster before then. *smirks* maybe we'll tip the barrel over if nothing happens anyway, simply out of frustration and spite. I'd want to survive and be considered useful in such heady times, and hope to be able to reach enough of the right people before its too late to get me to where that can happen. This post isn't about spreading panic, only awareness that we find ourselves in the most troubled times in our history and that if a dark time is to befall us soon that I hope that we each can see its coming and make ready for it.
That is all.