Take a look around and remember the promise of G-d, that he would never destroy the world again by water and sent the rainbow as a sign of that promise. The rainbow appears seldom enough to call forth comments and calls to 'come see' when it does. There is beauty in Nature that we often forget to see, hear and admire.
But there is also ugliness in the world. Some of it is natural. The San Andreas Rift in California is one of the ugliest sights I have ever seen. It appears as if someone took a hatchet to the world and exposed what lays beneath. Ugly - and frightening.
The power of the oceans during a storm, the strength of the downpour, the beauty of a world covered in snow - all stunning but all covering up danger and resultant ugliness. And when a nation gets struck by one disaster after another, earthquake, tsunami, volcano eruption, then one must think and consider. One must wonder what was left out? What are we missing?
We are missing that which goes without saying, that mankind's worst enemy is itself. We are doing a pretty damn good job at destroying the world all by ourselves and our harmful and destructive behavior. I do not understand why people are so willing to forgo the future for the chance of some money or power now, a fancier car or bigger house or more expensive clothes and apparently this is all having a major detrimental effect on our world and on our future - or if there is even a future out there!
We would always hear a date - next century, end of this century and too many of us would think, well, I won't be here so okay.... Yes, our kids will be here but selfishness is amazing, is it not? But now we are hearing that we have so damaged the world, that we have increased the harm to it at such an exponential rate that 2040 is looking like the border, the point of no return. 2040!!!!! That is around the corner for all intents and purposes and how silly, how stupid, how blind, we will look at some point on some other planet as historians of the universe discuss the downfall of Earth and its population.
Malthus was derided and denounced for his theory, the one that states that the world will outrun its ability to produce enough food, have enough clean water, and that was with its population increase. Now add to it all the damage we have done to the Earth and weep, my friends, weep hard and long. Take a look at the pictures around the world of starving people.
Maybe it is past the point of no return right now for all practical purposes. China and India keep up with their pollution. America does the same and now we are getting worse with that creature and his minions at the head. We are gobbling up arable land for more ticky-tacky developments even as we crowd the life out of our living spaces. We throw up huge and unnecessary mansions on former fields. We cut down the trees and damage our air we need to breathe. We pour chemicals into the ground, into the waterways and we do it in the name of ease and money, of corporate profit.
No country can go it alone and yet each country refuses to work together or groans at the thought and more and more are pulling out of an accord on this matter, the leader of which is US!!! So even as we dig ourselves further and deeper into a political mess, we are creating more and more of an existential mess. What does it matter, evidently, if we lose democracy, lose our very souls, if the corporations and their head honchos increase their accounts and the environment further deteriorates? Well, there are no lifeboats from the mess we make, are there? There are no new arks into the vast realms of space. Nor will there be, certainly not in time.
So I take a look around. I look at traitors to their souls like Collins, like Manchin and wonder if they will face payback. I wonder at the creature of the White House, ruining our lives, tearing up the Constitution even as we allow perverts to take over. I wonder at the growth of false and fake 'factoids' that people choose to believe. I look at my grandchildren and cry.
Who exactly is the winner here?
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