Do you ever get the sense that human civilization is a juggernaut that basically has no one steering?\u00a0 Our activities have become this unstoppable force that tramples anything that gets in its way but basically has no idea where it\u2019s headed.\u00a0 Now there are lots of people and their leaders who try to direct things but most of them seem to be idiots or so completely selfish that they only recognize their own priorities or even if they seem to exhibit some altruism, they\u2019re completely mistaken in their beliefs about what are the important problems or at least what are the right things to do about them.<\/p>\n
And now that humanity has increased to more than eight billion souls and with our capabilities to destroy enormous numbers of people with weapons of mass destruction, we seem to be constantly on the brink of blowing the whole furiously spinning human enterprise to smithereens.<\/p>\n
I am aware that this is hardly anything new.\u00a0 Going back to 1945 and Hiroshima we have been living in the shadow of Armageddon now for eighty years.\u00a0 And going back to 1914 we have for well over a century been living in the seeming collapse of European Renaissance civilization.\u00a0 But it does seem to have reached a breaking point.\u00a0 With the current trends we have seen concerning population decline and apparent rampant psychiatric collapse of a sizable percentage of young people we must be reaching the point where either someone or some group rallies a core of people to step back from the brink of collapse or this whole civilization will break down into a dark age; something like what happened during the so-called late bronze age collapse.<\/p>\n
In general, it looks like there needs to be a sanity check on what we value.\u00a0 The current social media environment is so dysfunctional that if someone proposed destroying the internet he might become the next prophet; whether you want to compare him to Mohammed or Martin Luther.\u00a0 But whatever the solutions that are selected there is no doubt at all that our present trajectory is disastrous.\u00a0 And I have named religious reformers because it is obvious that the primary problem is not economic or technological.\u00a0 It is spiritual, or if you prefer, psychological.\u00a0 We have allowed nihilistic concepts and other harmful ideas to percolate into young minds through teachers who shouldn\u2019t be allowed to interact with children.\u00a0 And it\u2019s having dire effects.\u00a0 For this reason, it will require a reset of what we teach children.\u00a0 I\u2019ve begun to hear that some states and localities are purging the trans-gender subject matter and teachers from their schools.\u00a0 But it\u2019s going to take a much more systematic approach to get a handle on this poisonous influence on children.\u00a0 And I fear that places like California it\u2019s already too late to fix.\u00a0 People will have to flee to save their kids.<\/p>\n
The real question in my mind is, \u201cIs it too late?\u201d\u00a0 At a certain point if a society can no longer provide the basic services and protections for its people, they will flee in search of a refuge.\u00a0 It happened in the bronze age Eastern Mediterranean.\u00a0 Can it happen here?\u00a0 I think so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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