SS

If you are among the millions (billions?) of people around the world that have a sense that although the 21^st 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.