Armageddon? Or I’m a gettin’ outta here?
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Whatever the origin, it seems in recent times there are more and more people starting to look at 2012 as some kind of special date. If the message of The Secret is true, it is quite possible we are all going to make it a special date, simply by focusing on it so much.
Some people are looking around the world and seeing the end of the world, not because of conditions matching prophecy of their personal beliefs, but because it seems so many facets of our world are riding the knife edge of disaster.
We have too many people. We have known this for some time but nobody (except the Chinese and the Swiss) is doing anything about it. We have almost seven billion people, breathing, eating, shitting and altering our environment, day by day.
We have a culture that allows 5% - 10% of the population to consume 85% of the resources, and worse, to consume them on a throwaway basis.
We have almost all our industries using and dumping poisons back, almost pure, into the environment where we have to grow our food. Our governments are putting other poisons in the water, purportedly to stop our teeth rotting (a vital concern obviously) and to overcome the fact that our fresh water is becoming toxic to us.
We run an economic system that allows people who produce nothing to drive up the prices of our goods and services to make themselves rich while those at either end of the chain remain constantly broke. We have allowed corporations and banks to determine the conditions in which they will operate, and naively expect them to do things that are good for us all, instead of just good for them.
And we have governments made up of people who will do anything, literally, to get into power – it’s like hiring pedophiles to mind our children. The one group of people who should never be given power are those who so desperately desire it.
So perhaps those who are looking to 2012 are simply seeing that soon, any one of these factors will pass a tipping point, a place where the system can no longer tolerate the condition and it breaks.
I wrote this some time ago but I think it applies now…
Standing in front of a fire place on a cold night is a comfort – we watch the flames leap and cavort, we hold out hands to get warm and we relish the time spent with loved ones in such a room.
Most people have by now heard of the fires in Victoria, Australia. The blazes swept across bush and town, moving at incredible speed and burning hot enough to melt metal on the cars it consumed. The body count is nearly two hundred and there are still large areas the searchers have yet to enter, raising the possibility of even higher numbers of dead.
In our world it seems everything is becoming more and more geared towards safety. The government passes laws almost daily to curtail injury, to allow them to fine people who might put themselves in harm’s way.