Greed and materialism disgust me. I don't know if I'm indigo or violet and honestly it matters little because knowing either way would not help me on my way for actualizing a reality of my desires. Nor will it save this planet from its own demise.
What I do believe that follows along the lines of the dawn of a new age is the growth of humanity. We breed, grow, pollute and consume while doing little to replenish that which we ruin. Mathamatically humanities population will double every 39 years. That means if things continue the way they are by the end of my days the human population of this planet will be nearly four times greater than now. We could logically assume that if our consumtion rate is proportional to our growth than we will also consume 4 times what we do now. Something has got to give. Either humanity needs to grow up and learn to not only harness nature but sustain it and mannage our waste/pollution or kill itself off with world wide devistation and overpopulation. As reasources become rarer and rarer we will see humanity get more and more desperate to control them and keep them to themselves. With introduction of nuclear weapons enevitably humanity will become desperate enough to use them. And in an all or nothing contest I see billions in flames as the fires of greed and pollution sweep the land. Hell will reign. The new age will be one of fire and suffering as the remanents of humanity scwabble for what little will remain.
The new age is not an idealistic one of spiritual progression or radical change in our governments. I believe its the climax of the growth of "civilation". The end of our old consuming days where many life forms will be obliterated and humanity itself will no longer be able to sustain its own popullation. Because of our greed and desire for power and domination at the expense of others and our environment. Unless we change we can only logically assume we will consume ourselves and our world into near extinction and global suffering. It is not the end of humans. Not all the nuclear bombs in the world could kill off every single pocket of humanity on this planet. Only the astroids in space or the flames of the sun it self could do that. Even if humanity did die off life itself would not end. Life has lasted over 500 million years and I believe its not about to end by a species who has only walked for a mear fraction of a second on time scale of our worldly existance. I do believe, however, it will change.
This is an awefully grim picture. And as dramatic as I may have portrayed this apocolypic end I did not find this end through some trance or altered state of mind. I simply can see what is going in this world. The fog of our greed looms as pollution over every major city. The fires of rain forrests see from space, the rise of gas prices is evidence on the depleation of our reasources and our growing dependence upon what we are so gleefully feasting upon. Our willing to commit to warfare to secure an ever diminishing comodety. The growth of our world straining our ablity to feed. Something has got to give.
But this disasterous end doesn't have to come. We as humans have the capacity to adapt and grow. We do not have to be blind sheep. Consumers in a grand rat race for wealth and power. We can prevent this end. We do still have the reasoruces to band together as a world united under one cause. Though different ideologies will all ways be a part of our human nature we can work for the security of our planet and our humanly existance. We don't have to agree on politics or religion. Those don't even have to a part of the process for saving this planet. All we need is to educate people on the importance of growing beyond our greedy and consuming ways to find an alternitive life. All we need is people to work together and contribute. To harness a life where we are not dependant upon oil or natural gas. Where we can grow and produce enough food to feed an exponential population. Where everybody can recieve health care and proper insurance. Where everybody no matter what socio-ecconomic denomination can have an opertunity to work and find wealth. In life and spirit.
That is an idealist's concept. I fear by the time we realize change is needed it will already be too late. We will have scwundered and ruined too much of the world to effective prevent global suffering. Or even if such a dream were realized it would ultimately only set the foundation for humanity to just ruin what is built and established. So long as the few continue to desire power and wealth over everybody else there will always be the risk that humanity will kill it's self off. Or at least cause itself horrible suffering.
I believe that at our present we are the generations just before the eye of the storm. That We are the final humans before the great climax of civilization. The old souls of the last epoch who have the power to become active and prevent the end of civilization, do nothing and watch it all come crashing down at our death beds. Or attempt to horde as much as we can ourselves before the enevitable decline and die fighting to keep the hounds of hell, the rabble of the after math, from stealing what little wealth and power we cling to.
Sorry for such a dramatic tone. But I hope this has an impact on people to wake them up and get them ivolved in some kind of change. Weather they choose to fight for the idealist's world. Fight to grap as much wealth and power while they still can or do nothing except live their lives to death. I hope people will do something.
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