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The human world is going to hell and it is taking the rest of the natural world with it.  We’ve poisoned everything in sight for our own selfish “progress.”  We’ve even poisoned ourselves.  Try finding tap water without chlorine and fluoride in it.  Things seem to keep getting worse, too.  We are nearing the collapse of at least the USA, and possibly the global economy as we know it.  America will no doubt become a third world country.  This is, of course, due to our behavior as a species.  The United States makes up 5% of the population and uses over 25% of the world’s resources.  If that isn’t unsustainable, I don’t know what is.  Americans don’t even produce hardly anything anymore, yet another sign we are headed down the road of becoming the other, the nondominant nation.  And it is entirely our own faults.

When the settlers first arrived here in America, the landbase was pristine, a paradise.  Now it has become the United Malls of America.  We have destroyed this entire continent and called it progress.  We have drained the land of every natural resource we could think of and had a misguided assumption that they would last forever.  God forbid we would think ahead.  I have the most dreadful feeling that in the next 50 years, this whole planet will become nothing more than a stinking ball of garbage and radioactive materials.  And we’ll have 15 billion people if some plague or virus doesn’t wipe out half the population.  I already feel overcrowded with just almost 7 billion people on this little rock.  Imagine how fucked up this world will be if double the people live on it.

Lucky for us, the current way of life is unsustainable, so we probably will never see 15 billion people.  And if we do, it will be a tipping point that will lead to the complete destruction of civilization.  There will be some kind of crash this century and I would argue that we are already in it.  The economy is destroyed.  Most of our food supply is created in a lab.  People either have no job or a job that doesn’t allow them to cover their expenses.  There are millions of rivers of money going from the poor to the rich and the Federal Reserve has our country by the balls, quite literally.  The future looks bleak, and there is little we can do about it but pull up a chair to watch everything crash and burn.  I’m sure the television news will put on quite a show.  And we’ve all got a front-row seat.  Sure, it will be a biased report, but you can’t argue with the facts of what is going on.

People are suffering today worse than ever before due to our psychotic and domineering society and culture.  We are told there is only one way to live and we either live that way (the exact way that is getting us into so much trouble in the first place) or be phased out with violence or simple assimilation.  Just ask the Native Americans about how compassionate civilized humans are.  We are all victims of this culture.  We didn’t ask to be born into a world where 1% of the people control something like 50% of the wealth.  The game is rigged, the scales are tilted and we are all in the dark–intentionally.  Nobody at the top will tell you that you’re getting fucked and have been getting fucked since you started your first day of school.  We are only taught what we are meant to be taught to keep us docile, compliant, and subordinate.  We are taught to never question authority and to accept that rules are rules and laws are laws no matter how ridiculous some of them may be.

So here we have a population of people who are completely devoid of critical thinking.  Sure, there are some people who are resilient enough to break out of the propaganda, but for the most part people just take what they see and hear at face value and believe it, especially if it comes from a trusted media outlet.  The news is the main tool of propaganda, and this is exactly why there are 24-hour news channels.  The powers that be want us to be exposed to their manifestos at all hours of the day and night to keep us thinking the way they want us to think. Here’s a link to Bill Hicks’s JFK assassination joke that shows how the totalitarian media tells you what to think and distracts you with meaningless entertainment.  Even shows that are supposedly entertainment express these same views through the characters’ values and ways of life.  Their main messages are that buying things will make you happy, your government always knows what is best, and that we as a people are entitled to whatever we want, no matter the cost (financial or ecological).  We are told that to challenge authority is a big no-no and to think for yourself makes you a radical.  To propose ideas that are not widely accepted by the brainwashed masses and those who are doing the brainwashing is grounds to get you assassinated (at least some of the time).

It is a mad, mad world out there and a self-destructive one at that.  We are literally biting off the hand that feeds us and it is only going to end one way and at this point I do not believe there is any way to stop the crash.  We are already in it.  Things will get a lot worse before they get better and people will die.  When we run out of the fuel that sustains us, what will we have left to keep up this standard of living and to support this many people?  Hell, even our own crops are grown with fertilizer derived from oil.  Us humans may have been smart enough to control the world, but to do it in a way that will allow us to do it forever is beyond our reach.  We extend our power beyond our understanding and beyond our empathy to the point where we even hurt ourselves in the process.  Can we ever recover from this type of behavior?

I think time will tell whether or not we can overcome this pathological death cycle we are caught in right now.  Of course, after we have a major crash, there will be someone next in line to assume power and control, but only it will be much harder to control an entire population without all those natural resources.  I hope that one day we can start living from the land, not exploiting it, but I very much doubt I will see this in my lifetime because people are so resistant to change, especially one of this order of magnitude.  And if we do form a society without guns and exploitation, what is to stop another neighboring tribe from doing the opposite and overtaking us, much like every culture that exists today once did?  Perhaps the Earth is better off without humans altogether, but try pushing that idea on people.  Not going to happen.

I have faith that one day perhaps we will realize the folly of our ways and revert back to our hunter-gatherer real selves.  How we get there is unknown to me, but once we realize that it is more intelligent to live in balance as a whole species and retain that species consciousness without being seduced by fancy new tools that increase our power at a hidden cost, then it will be a possibility.  I’m just hoping that eventually we can live the way we are supposed to once again, the way nature intended.

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