While the Rest of You Are Spending Time with Kith and Kin
I am thinking about tomorrow. Not Christmas, which is a highly overrated holiday, which generally forces us to spend time with people we secretly or usually openly hate in the interest of family, but the upcoming years.
2008 is upon us and I cannot shake the feeling that soon we are facing one of those great moments in human history. We face political uncertainty in America with a variety of bland, flavorless candidates jockeying to place themselves at the head of the wagon into the abyss. And globally, we face an incredibly frightening future, filled with positive uncertainty and negative forces made worse by governmental failure and epic greed. And we haven't even touched upon the potential for social unrest and the terrible things we do to our world on a daily basis.
And honestly, I'm excited. I've come to accept there will never be a war of the scale past generations lived through. But perhaps through the complicity and failings of our "masters", we too can be part of a genuinely important time in history.
The true test of the human condition is extreme adversity. In our current states, we will not starve or suffer or any of those things. We will complain of petty injustices, nurse grudges which have no real meaning, think we have succeeded, when we have undoubtedly failed. All of this is meaningless. Once we watch politicians attempt to put a salve to our numerous wounds, it will become clear to all of us that the past is our link to the future and we can see if we are weak and the remnants of the past or if the indominatable American spirit courses through all of our veins and allow us to rebuild a new world, not necessarily a better world, but a world of our own, rather than the world of our past which encroaches upon us in ways beyond our ability to comprehend.
2008 is upon us and I cannot shake the feeling that soon we are facing one of those great moments in human history. We face political uncertainty in America with a variety of bland, flavorless candidates jockeying to place themselves at the head of the wagon into the abyss. And globally, we face an incredibly frightening future, filled with positive uncertainty and negative forces made worse by governmental failure and epic greed. And we haven't even touched upon the potential for social unrest and the terrible things we do to our world on a daily basis.
And honestly, I'm excited. I've come to accept there will never be a war of the scale past generations lived through. But perhaps through the complicity and failings of our "masters", we too can be part of a genuinely important time in history.
The true test of the human condition is extreme adversity. In our current states, we will not starve or suffer or any of those things. We will complain of petty injustices, nurse grudges which have no real meaning, think we have succeeded, when we have undoubtedly failed. All of this is meaningless. Once we watch politicians attempt to put a salve to our numerous wounds, it will become clear to all of us that the past is our link to the future and we can see if we are weak and the remnants of the past or if the indominatable American spirit courses through all of our veins and allow us to rebuild a new world, not necessarily a better world, but a world of our own, rather than the world of our past which encroaches upon us in ways beyond our ability to comprehend.