Greetings good citizen, Happy Friday to you! Time keeps on slipping into the future...just as 'the world as we know it' keeps slipping into the past. With this in mind the 'twawki' part of the puzzle is constantly changing...and disappearing down the memory hole on an almost daily basis.
But that's not what they mean when they invoke 'the end of the world'...when pundits go there what they're really talking about is 'life after people'. A curious phenomenon but there seriously won't be anyone around that gives a crap...save the relatively few species that prospered alongside mankind.
It is hoped that whatever takes us out will take them out too, making the difficult transition from domesticated back to wild unnecessary.
[Yeah, I'm a sap that way.]
I watched an Aussie 'End of the World' flick last night and al la Alfred Hitchcock, Australia was the 'last place to go' as the film captured the 'final hours' of humanity's reign...with the protagonist learning, only at the last moment, what was 'important'.
Through out the whole film the 'narrator' (cleverly disguised as a radio DJ) doesn't tell us what, specifically, is wiping humanity from the face of the planet but in the end you are left to deduce that it is some kind of 'solar flare' that scorched the surface of the earth to a cinder.
There are several things 'wrong' with this scenario but I'm not here to critique the film or the science behind it.
I bring up the subject for a more obscure reason. A reason so subtle that I doubt many appreciate what is happening. Nikita Kruschev warned us about 'gradualism' back in the late 50's and the Reagan Revolution has been all about 'gradualism'.
In this case the world doesn't just go poof in a radioactive cloud, it dies the death of a thousand cuts, losing a different piece each and every day.
While this 'shouldn't' culminate in an extinction level event, those overseeing the dismantling of thousands of years of civil protections risk a collapse of epic proportions...and some of them, the none too bright, thinking that this would be a good thing.
In this respect good citizen, 'time travel' is possible...because it is not people returning to a previous time period, it is merely the 'rolling back' of the hands on the clock of social development.
Quiz time, good citizen. What are the 'pillars of civilization'? I don't recall seeing such 'truths' being taught in school...just as nobody, beyond a certain few, are educated about the legal construct we call 'money'.
Do you know what the pillars of civilization are? Are you tempted to guess, 'Truth, Beauty & Justice?' or would you substitute 'Freedom' for Beauty and 'Knowledge' for Truth?
The three pillars are, in this order: Equality, Justice and Peace.
More succinctly, it all hinges on equality, without equality there can be no justice and without justice there can be no peace.
Why do I ask this, good citizen?
In YOUR 'humble opinion', do you think our current civilization is working towards the goal of equality or moving in the opposite direction?
Why even ask this question?
Because 'ignorance' is a dangerous thing. If you remain ignorant of how things should be, who will fight for the 'right things' in life? [Who and more importantly, what will protect your children...]
I enjoy a little following, a decidedly good thing and I am sincere in thanking you all for letting me inside your head but what 'WE' (the both of us) need is more eyeballs. Can you think of anyone with enough intellectual curiosity that they might enjoy my musings?
If you LOVE civilization and the 'civil society' it is intended to produce, please educate as many as you can!
And thanks once again for letting me intrude inside your head!
Gegner
But that's not what they mean when they invoke 'the end of the world'...when pundits go there what they're really talking about is 'life after people'. A curious phenomenon but there seriously won't be anyone around that gives a crap...save the relatively few species that prospered alongside mankind.
It is hoped that whatever takes us out will take them out too, making the difficult transition from domesticated back to wild unnecessary.
[Yeah, I'm a sap that way.]
I watched an Aussie 'End of the World' flick last night and al la Alfred Hitchcock, Australia was the 'last place to go' as the film captured the 'final hours' of humanity's reign...with the protagonist learning, only at the last moment, what was 'important'.
Through out the whole film the 'narrator' (cleverly disguised as a radio DJ) doesn't tell us what, specifically, is wiping humanity from the face of the planet but in the end you are left to deduce that it is some kind of 'solar flare' that scorched the surface of the earth to a cinder.
There are several things 'wrong' with this scenario but I'm not here to critique the film or the science behind it.
I bring up the subject for a more obscure reason. A reason so subtle that I doubt many appreciate what is happening. Nikita Kruschev warned us about 'gradualism' back in the late 50's and the Reagan Revolution has been all about 'gradualism'.
In this case the world doesn't just go poof in a radioactive cloud, it dies the death of a thousand cuts, losing a different piece each and every day.
While this 'shouldn't' culminate in an extinction level event, those overseeing the dismantling of thousands of years of civil protections risk a collapse of epic proportions...and some of them, the none too bright, thinking that this would be a good thing.
In this respect good citizen, 'time travel' is possible...because it is not people returning to a previous time period, it is merely the 'rolling back' of the hands on the clock of social development.
Quiz time, good citizen. What are the 'pillars of civilization'? I don't recall seeing such 'truths' being taught in school...just as nobody, beyond a certain few, are educated about the legal construct we call 'money'.
Do you know what the pillars of civilization are? Are you tempted to guess, 'Truth, Beauty & Justice?' or would you substitute 'Freedom' for Beauty and 'Knowledge' for Truth?
The three pillars are, in this order: Equality, Justice and Peace.
More succinctly, it all hinges on equality, without equality there can be no justice and without justice there can be no peace.
Why do I ask this, good citizen?
In YOUR 'humble opinion', do you think our current civilization is working towards the goal of equality or moving in the opposite direction?
Why even ask this question?
Because 'ignorance' is a dangerous thing. If you remain ignorant of how things should be, who will fight for the 'right things' in life? [Who and more importantly, what will protect your children...]
I enjoy a little following, a decidedly good thing and I am sincere in thanking you all for letting me inside your head but what 'WE' (the both of us) need is more eyeballs. Can you think of anyone with enough intellectual curiosity that they might enjoy my musings?
If you LOVE civilization and the 'civil society' it is intended to produce, please educate as many as you can!
And thanks once again for letting me intrude inside your head!
Gegner
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