Monday, July 03, 2006
The Sky is Falling!
There's an Aesop fable about this, if I remember correctly, though it might not actually be an Aesop. Anyhow, the sky is not falling yet, but it looks like someone just turn up the heat on the world. Starting with Thailand, which has been steaming for a while, although it's more of a local problem. The Middle East is getting worse by the day, now that Israel decided to escalate. The current political dynamics in the US is also quite toxic. All that needs to plunge the world into a major chaos is a real disruption in crude shipment from middle east. The damage could be long-lasting.
If only people will get some sense, and start climbing down. That is not likely though, given the dynamics of fear, hatred, and mistrust. It takes extraordinary courage. Nothing short of the second coming of Christ, or the Buddha descending from Nirvana, or an Alien visitation (like in Contact), is going to decelerate this crisis.
In Indian cosmology, there's a cycle of destruction and rebirth. The cleansing fire by Shiva, and the creation by Brahma. In many ways, human history is such. The thing is it's not gonna be pleasant for the people who live in this time. Being a witness to history, may sound grand and all on the one hand, but then there's an ancient Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting time."
There's an Aesop fable about this, if I remember correctly, though it might not actually be an Aesop. Anyhow, the sky is not falling yet, but it looks like someone just turn up the heat on the world. Starting with Thailand, which has been steaming for a while, although it's more of a local problem. The Middle East is getting worse by the day, now that Israel decided to escalate. The current political dynamics in the US is also quite toxic. All that needs to plunge the world into a major chaos is a real disruption in crude shipment from middle east. The damage could be long-lasting.
If only people will get some sense, and start climbing down. That is not likely though, given the dynamics of fear, hatred, and mistrust. It takes extraordinary courage. Nothing short of the second coming of Christ, or the Buddha descending from Nirvana, or an Alien visitation (like in Contact), is going to decelerate this crisis.
In Indian cosmology, there's a cycle of destruction and rebirth. The cleansing fire by Shiva, and the creation by Brahma. In many ways, human history is such. The thing is it's not gonna be pleasant for the people who live in this time. Being a witness to history, may sound grand and all on the one hand, but then there's an ancient Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting time."
# posted by tectona @ 9:29 PM 
