I have lost count. No more fingers and toes to use, as there are too many out there who are saying the same thing. More and more forcefully, commentators on all sides of the game give voice re their concern about the resemblance of our history to times past. Cosmic changes await us unless and until, and very soon, we make the proper turn in the road and leave the dangerous path behind. If we do not, we are warned that the cataclysmic changes which took place in and to great empires will be replicated in the modern world.
If this is too hard for one to figure out, peruse the pages in the plethora of tomes of history. Within those pages the names of crazed leaders who were so intent on occupying a seat and a name which would carry them through their times and way into the future. So much so that they indeed got what they wished for. But surrounding that name and their history was a great dark cloud, for in that search, in that crazed ambition, they got their name and their history though in manifestly negative manner.
I cannot speak for sure as to their thoughts, as to what their reactions would be, should they find a wormhole in space via which they could see exactly what they had left behind and put forth for the scholars of the future to dissect. Is that what they would have wished? Caligula. Nero. Henry VIII. Hitler. Mussolini. Stalin. Orban. Macron. Khoumani. Mamdani. Starmer. Trump. Netanyahu. Abbas. Extremists of all kinds.
The list never stops for all these men and more, wanted and continue to chase fame and too often found infamy instead. Too often they indeed got what they had pursued so intently and in their undignified and even crazed behavior, their faults overcame the good they might have done or initiated. Their names have left and threaten to leave a bad taste in the annals of humankind.
When the shakers and movers of the world are more likely and inclined to shout at and threaten other leaders rather than carry on a sane conversation, the world is in trouble. When the Great Empires and alliances of the Times begin to eat themselves from within, pieces of the agreements flaking off, then the world is in trouble. And when those who are supposed to guide us need guides themselves, the world is in trouble And when grandiose actions and threats are spewed out in an endless stream, the world is in trouble
The crazed and wild competition; who is the best, who is the richest, who has the best and most dangerous weapons? Who will come out on top? And then the concern, the fear, as now, whether the rivalry and overblown egos will cause one to go off, irrevocably, and in the heat and fury press a button which will burn the world in flames which cannot be overcome and for sure, once we emerge from yet another dark period wherein mankind struggles to emerge from more caves, the names of the leaders will be known, with dirt and anger, with bloodstains that cannot be washed out and away.
Today, there are no more 'little wars'. A conflict which might have begun between two tribes spreads to their allies. These allies have bigger allies, more powerful allies, and they join in, creating proxy wars and convenient places to test out in real terms all sorts of new inventions, much better at killing and destroying. New weapons traditional or new, as in biologic and nothing stays small anymore.
The leaders of the world blind themselves to the severe consequences of their hubris. Consequences worldwide and harsh. It is especially aggravating when all one has to do is look back in history, ancient and modern, and see that these wars answer no real questions, solve no matter in any permanent manner. More wars are fought over the same issues, wars which could have been prevented. With the right reactions and the right words at the right time.
Unfortunately, we do not see our way through, and we are stuck time and time again in yet another eddy. It carries us nowhere other than into larger and larger circles of faster speeds and deeper waters where too many of us will find we cannot swim. Certainly not for long. And there we are again. Fighting wars which could have been avoided, competing where we should have been cooperating, and the Hate and Insanity continue apace and well, here we are again.
Mankind, tasked with the responsibilities of tending to the world has failed abysmally. We refuse to allow wisdom into our actions and decisions. We allow emotions of the worst kind to invade our hearts and souls. The compassion and care and love which should be within have been cast out. We've become weaker and weaker, morality almost forgotten. False words fly through the air and negative results abound. And on we continue, choosing and worshipping false gods which gives us no hope, no goodness and, I fear, along with many others, that the nuclear threat has gone viral.
We who were meant to be the rulers of the world, the brightest, most comprehending of this duty, of the responsibilities to and for all inhabitants of the world have gone rogue. Our leaders and us, ourselves, have no one to blame other than ourselves. We have painted over the true reflection of the mirror and have used faulty versions which please our egos but destroy our souls.
Yesterday and today and Dear G-d, I hope not tomorrow.
The most dangerous self-inflicted wounds and aren't we proud.
Please note that there will be no new posting until Sunday due to a holiday.
See you then.
Be safe. Be careful. Be kind.
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