If you are among the millions (billions?) of people around
the world that have a sense that although the 21st Century Limited
has jumped its tracks and is heading into the abyss; and that although you feel
betrayed, confused, anxious, somewhat sickened, you are not without hope of your continued relative success; and that you and yours, somehow, will survive
a global cataclysm the foreshadowing of which is obvious to anyone capable and desirous of
submitting themselves to being honest.
Surely, it’s a good thing that even without any evidence to
support your unflappable faith in your future that you yet have a gut feeling that you
will somehow slip past this historical period of uncontrollable climatic
change and natural despoliation, of globally destructive, regressive and divisive political insanity, of
unrelenting greed, of rampant selfishness, of incessant hatred, fear, and
jealousy of each other: a universal disorder.
I certainly hope that you’re right to remain stoically uninvolved. I also hope that this does not cause the coming catastrophe to
arrive even sooner than it would have otherwise. I wish I could count on you to
do what needs to be done, that is, to get truly involved in your one and only lives, truly in touch with yourselves, but without any evidence to the contrary, my gut feeling is that most of you will do
what you have always done.
So sad.
