Artist's depiction.
Brooklyn, NY 12.21.2012 - 2:00 pm
Current date and time in Perth, Australia: 12.22.2012 - 2:45 am (or so)
As I, and many many others (including the modern descendants of the Mayans) predicted, nothing very much out of the ordinary happened today. The calendar changed.
My predictions for the next century;
The world will go on with people here to witness it. The struggles for the good of all will be complicated and nuanced but, as it has for thousands of years, life will continue to improve for the human race. We are all safer and healthier right now than at any point in human history so far, that's a fact.
There will be disasters, and setbacks, and it might get very bad at times but we will get through it. And these bad things won't come from an angry god. They will come from chance and human failings like greed, laziness, and willful ignorance.
Our species is literally still in its childhood. On average, mammalian species get a million years or more on this planet. We've had 200,000 or so. Opossums have been around for 70 - 80 million years, I bet we can split the difference. In any event, within the short blip that our individual lives represent we have to face the fact that most likely tomorrow is coming, it will be quite similar to yesterday, and we have to act accordingly.
In regard to the human power structure; they already have everything they want. There is no need for implanted microchips or some kind of "mark of the beast". There is simply no need for them to go to all that effort. Having everyone fight over the crumbs they leave behind has worked great so far. They won this fight before you or I were born. We are now seeing the seeds, only the very start, of the struggle to balance things out in a compassionate and rational way.
This is something I have been talking about for years, seeing the balance of wealth and power widen at an alarming rate, and now many more people are talking about it too. That means slow, difficult, complex change will come, and is happening. We all will be part of figuring out how to get there. It's our responsibility to fix our world and it's not going to be easy.
Right now is a perfect moment to take or renew responsibility for our lives in a world that will still be here, and still be a mess, in an hour, tomorrow, in 10 or 100 years, and so on. Right now is always a perfect moment to do that, so if at first you don't succeed, you know.
Let's not put off doing something toward the greater good right now whether that means make art, or make a meal for a loved one, or for someone who has less than us, because we feel or believe the world might end tomorrow.
Ultimately that is the effect of the apocalyptic mindset, it means living for the moment in the most selfish of ways, because well... fuck it.
As individuals it's our job to face the fact, any day could be our last here on earth. If you think about that mental struggle in depth, you may realize what I know to be true; all religion, philosophy, art, and most sex stems from the mental and spiritual effort to accept and process the inevitability of physical death for each and every one of us.
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