"I wanna' get off!" is the second part of that statement from an iconic movie. Unfortunately, today we are talking in real terms of the possibility of this globe of ours deteriorating to the point of no viability, but then the hitch - where and how can we get off? Where would we go? No, that little rocket ride jaunt will not do the trick.
The parameters of such a necessity are enormous, almost impossible to imagine successfully met, and the whole issue is the basis for one sci-fi movie after another. The worst point of all those movies? The fact that they failed to the point of destruction, with that likely fate due to the failure of the character of man to stand up, do the right thing, and leave behind all the earth bound problems. But no, along with their belongings, they dragged their emotional and mental baggage, weakening the 'colonies'. Yet another colossal failure.
So, back to reality. The western USA burns, others drown in Europe, as the smoke chokes us all over the globe, drought destroys the food producing capacity of mankind, and what do we do? Just about nothing, really. We pave over remaining acres, as our water, our air, the very ground we walk upon, are poisoned. Terra firma is not so firm anymore. Unfortunately, we are so busy squabbling over the sports equipment that the game is postponed until too late to play becomes a real issue.
What are we doing? We are becoming ever more hateful, ever more selfish, ever more uncaring about the needs of others as we become too focused on maintaining our own perceived power. The power to do what, you might ask? Well, the power to destroy us. The power to actually kill those we simply do not like. The power to live a Big Lie, one after the other. The power to destroy all that our ancestors have built over the years. The power to turn this earth, this battered home of ours, this small globe, so beautiful when viewed from space, into a dung heap, a shameful future archeological site for some future space explorer.
Example par excellence? Just use your GPS to get to DC and cry over the debacle before you ."For months, lies and conspiracy theories have been spread, threatening our self-governance,” but on we continue down that dangerous track.
The step to remedy this is to "focus on fixing the errors", referring to Biles but absolutely applicable to our situation. Our problems are "mental' says one, but not for us, as we actually faced a physical attempt to overthrow this government. Not so simple, particularly as the GOP shuns its responsibilities and the truth, and calls the insurrectionists "political prisoners"!! I kid you not. Sadly so. Compounded by idiots, dangerous ones, like Goetz, who is more concerned about Brittany than his country, belittling the rebels' crimes.
All this as the country continues to bleed citizens due to COVID and the superbly moronic dangerous approach of the GOP. It seems that supporting the GOP demands a deep loyalty second only to that of kamikaze pilots - die for your beliefs, follow the commands unto death with no hope of rescue, no room for thought, and do not question - anything. So we die here in Florida. We die in backwoods areas. We die needlessly. We die because we do not think, have been encouraged not to think, to be obedient robots to the Leader. The faint squeak of the door as it opens to the possibility of sanity among GOP governors is a welcome sound, but hurry it up, will ya'! With you, why not pack some of the recalcitrant members of Congress who remain in their own manufactured muck.
Lest one think that the stupidity is on one side, think again. Yes, it weighs far more heavily on the GOP side; however, the Democrats are tainted as well. Lightfoot says she will ban white journalists, on a roll, she thinks. Well, she is not. She is simply perpetuating prejudice along a different path, just as bad, based on the same poison as any other prejudice. Excluding any one group, no matter the justification, is wrong. Wrong and dangerous. Existentially so. Furthermore, the mouths, the crude statements and trumpeted ugly beliefs of the "Squad" are just as reprehensible. Well worthy of criticism as well. Their ethnic origin or coloring does not preclude them from criticism. Not at all.
Nope. Back to the title statement. However, the truth remains. There is no way, no how, nowhere to go. Not now and not in the near future as well. The distant future? The prescient 1972 MIT study took care of that. We have until 2040 before the entire system collapses; no rescue in sight. Can we pull off a global rescue? Maybe, just maybe, if we put aside all poisonous segments of our minds and accept that we are all in this together. Right down the tubes if it gets to that point. No rescue rocket ship for Baby Kal-el. No rescue rocket ship for us.
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