We're facing something like the monolith in the movie "2001: Space Odessey" -- an international evil cabal, criminal empire that encourages and rewards the worst of behaviors. A few multi-billionaires, some billionaires, more millionaires, and "the huddled masses yearning to breathe free" of onerous tariffs and taxes, regulations and rules, limited employment, housing and self-actualization opportunities. Small business owners struggling and going under, swallowed up by monopolies and conglomerates. Impoverished, ailing youth and elders dependent on charities and a retrenched welfare state. Working people taking two or three sometimes mindless and/or dangerous jobs, often entailing extraordinary commutes in time and traffic, to make ends meet and trying to care for their families and communities. Overwhelmed by costs of mortgages and medical care, and sick and tired from the burdens they bear. Requiring the ever-increased expense of higher education and legal representation amidst the myriad, byzantine laws promulgated at every level of government involving personal, professional, familial, commercial, educational and artistic experience. A worrisome necropolis that drains good people of money, power, energy, health and life itself, with an ever-widening disparity of resources available between rich and poor, and a shrinking middle-class saddled with debt. Against all that is an aphoristic worldwide City of Light -- a loose affiliation at every level of individuals, organizations, some governmental agencies, civic leaders, educators, artisans, political associations, media outlets, voters, all cognizant of and resistent to that direction, creating and maintaining an alternative awareness, consciousness and worldview. The old world that lavishly remunerates greed and acquisition by fair means or foul, with some of its "top dogs" attempting to alleviate some of the misery caused by establishing and underwriting philanthropic foundations, fellowships, scholarships, institutes and trusts to deal with the human and planetary consequences of it all -- including, for children and adults, homelessness and diaspora; mental disarray, most particularly depression, treated by an ever-increasing cornucopia of psychotropic drugs with unfortunate, sometimes fatal, side-effects; decreasing availability of potable water, a life-essential, for expanding population billions, more and more of whom are struck by diseases concommitant to consumption of contaminated substances, including foods and air; famine, war, individual and mass murder and disfigurement over ever-diminishing non-septic requisites available for the masses. In the Age of Technology, we have to choose whether continuing innovations and inventions will be used for the preservation, protection and benefit of living and inanimate, delineated and analogized* ecstancies*, or be allowed ever-expanding manipulation and exhaustion toward the annihilation of species, planet, universe and history to the short-term, ultimately suicidal extravagance of a very few statistically. The sneering avariciousness of that monumental Pacman-like tornadic force against the universality and existence of history. The spread of mechanistic overseers and drones, with human beings still evolving onward and upward in capacity and capability. The American Dream turning into a nightmare of home and credit card debt, spiraling insurance costs, legal and illicit drugs, violent criminality, educational dysfunction, and undiagnosable disease. The Scales of Justice out of control, dipping and rising with a building psychotic momentum, analogically whirling and spinning themselves insanely off their pedestal into the universe toward The Dead Zone. The Wheels of Progress losing traction and binding cords metaphorically, tattered rubber flapping into the incredulous galaxy, blindly and pitilessly careening toward a destination of ultimate destruction for every thing and every one, every ecstancy*. We're at a critical point, juncture, and it's time, as ever, for adults, and children even, to take a stand and push back that devouring spiral with an uplifting, affirmative, instant and effevescent energy that commands the air, fills the skies, covers the land, and atomizes the waters through and through. God, the loving Creator of it all, is on the side of righteousness and life, continuance. Through civic involvement in every way citizens of the Earth can, one by one and together, end that reign of intimidation and terror until it's over, crushed, converted or defeated, here in the twenty-first century since the appearance of God as man, Divinity as flesh and blood, crucified to save us all everlastingly. Le monde sans la fin. World without end.
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