Give me a sandwich board, bell and a soapbox
The world is a fantastically beautiful and wondrous place (watch one episode of Planet Earth and you’ll see).
The world also is a place of great pain, hurt and dire ugliness (witness the massacre at Virginia Tech).
If you’re looking for wisdom to explain the latter, I’ve got no clue. As a journalist, I have been witness to all sorts of cruelty humans have managed to heap on one another.
Like the time I followed a county coroner for a story and we discovered the homeless guy who had rotted through a mattress is a hot Arkansas abandoned warehouse – and his killer, another homeless guy who didn’t bother to flee.
They had argued over a $1.50 bottle of fortified wine and the killer bashed the guy’s head in with a cinder block after he passed out. To get to the wine.
Remember, we’re the species that brought to the world Hitler, Ted Bundy and a whole host of other spectacularly frightening killers and nutjobs.
The world is ill. It’s got the cancer and it is not getting any better.
I’ve had conversations with people that focus on the “Hell in a Hand Basket Theory” that there’s a conspiracy out there to break U.S. citizens down with high gas prices, historic levels of home forclosures just so the government can better compete with China's labor force.
That there’s a conspiracy for the U.S. to join Mexico and Canada in a new Super Nation.
That there will be ruling families, a new world order, and we’ll all be living in some Orwellian society of control, propaganda and misinformation.
I just don’t think our government - or any other government or faction - has it in them.
Systems all tend to fray the further out you go; total control is impossible to achieve. Humans are poor secret keepers; we all like to talk.
I do believe that we’re getting closer to a time where the world will reset itself.
And it is not going to be good.
If you think about it, the last time the world has seen a huge reset was World War II. We’ve been percolating along for 62 years, growing more ill as each year has gone by.
Maybe that’s a simplistic way to look at things. Maybe not.
I just feel like the world can’t go spinning along as it has.
There’s a reset coming.
And it’s not going to be pleasant or pretty.
The world also is a place of great pain, hurt and dire ugliness (witness the massacre at Virginia Tech).
If you’re looking for wisdom to explain the latter, I’ve got no clue. As a journalist, I have been witness to all sorts of cruelty humans have managed to heap on one another.
Like the time I followed a county coroner for a story and we discovered the homeless guy who had rotted through a mattress is a hot Arkansas abandoned warehouse – and his killer, another homeless guy who didn’t bother to flee.
They had argued over a $1.50 bottle of fortified wine and the killer bashed the guy’s head in with a cinder block after he passed out. To get to the wine.
Remember, we’re the species that brought to the world Hitler, Ted Bundy and a whole host of other spectacularly frightening killers and nutjobs.
The world is ill. It’s got the cancer and it is not getting any better.
I’ve had conversations with people that focus on the “Hell in a Hand Basket Theory” that there’s a conspiracy out there to break U.S. citizens down with high gas prices, historic levels of home forclosures just so the government can better compete with China's labor force.
That there’s a conspiracy for the U.S. to join Mexico and Canada in a new Super Nation.
That there will be ruling families, a new world order, and we’ll all be living in some Orwellian society of control, propaganda and misinformation.
I just don’t think our government - or any other government or faction - has it in them.
Systems all tend to fray the further out you go; total control is impossible to achieve. Humans are poor secret keepers; we all like to talk.
I do believe that we’re getting closer to a time where the world will reset itself.
And it is not going to be good.
If you think about it, the last time the world has seen a huge reset was World War II. We’ve been percolating along for 62 years, growing more ill as each year has gone by.
Maybe that’s a simplistic way to look at things. Maybe not.
I just feel like the world can’t go spinning along as it has.
There’s a reset coming.
And it’s not going to be pleasant or pretty.
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