PARALLEL WORLDS

     Shakespeare had it right. When the world of nature is going bonkers, look around and check the world of man. What is going on? When the comments are made in Julius Caesar about the weird events of Nature, the comets, the crazy storms, the explanation is given which states that this is a clue, a reflection, to the disorder, the unnatural events in the world of man. This motif runs throughout the plays of Shakespeare.
     Now skip thru the centuries and stop when the dial hits 2018. Take a look around. Look at the past few years, the past few decades. Compare the events of Nature with the events and deeds of man. A tad scary, I believe.
      When man no longer is careful with the resources of nature, when he believes that he can rampage thru it without a care, then we are looking at a world of nature that will backfire, and so we have it. Just look around and see us tear up the world, allow a Canadian company to ravage the lands of The Bears Ears Monument as Zinke drastically shrinks it. Watch how uranium threats to the nature and the people of the area grow and overwhelm us. Watch how we threaten the coastline of the country in the name of oil. Promises, promises that nothing will go wrong and uh, what was that about Deepwater Horizon and Exxon Valdez?
    The world of Man has lost its way, lost the directions and pathways to the right way of life, the thoughtful and kind way of life. We rip each other apart. We have plans for a last resort of war with Korea!!! Plans that just went thru an active assessment at that. Russia has nuclear drones in the ocean. We have revived hatreds of old that never really were lost, only buried. We have allowed them to bloom with their poisonous seeds and flowers.
     We have returned to the god of money as the head god, the one we worship, sacrifice to, obey above all others. No matter who or what is in the way, we rush forward. In this mad and insane rush to accumulate mega bucks, insane fortunes, we trample over others. We trample on the rules of Nature. We trample on the rules of Man.
     We have allowed insanity to take over and the world of Nature has responded. We have the mudslides of a back area of a Central American country, only this one happened in the wealthy enclave of Montecito in California. We have constant floods, storms of the century which are coming every year. We have induced earthquakes into otherwise safe and stable areas due to fracking. Our cities are flooding and the nations of the world are facing the same dilemmas that we are. Island nations are disappearing yet we just keep on going, oblivious to what is happening and then what? Will we choose one of the apocalyptic movies as our guide on survival in this new world that we create? Will it be Mad Max or Snowpiercer? 
     What are we doing? What have we done and what more are we planning. The parallel worlds are imploding. Look around and see the tired faces of mankind. Look at the bewilderment as disasters overtake them time and time again.
     As for myself, I am fatigued, physically, emotionally, mentally. What is the use of trying to think, of planning, of hoping when the world appears to be run by the lunatics, truly the time when the inmates are running the asylum. And the world of Nature confirms my feelings as Mother Nature grows ever more challenged and fatigued as she tries to hold it together.
     So who will win? Who will retain that much more energy and come up with either the solution or the truly damning end of the world? All I know is in my own parallel worlds I am tired, so very tired. What about you?