[MD] apocalypse...now?

[david buchanan]

Krimel said to Gav:
The world has been transformed into something entirely new about every decade in the recent past.

dmb says:
How so? I guess it depends on what you mean by "revolution". I don't see anything that deserves the name. If you're talking about computers, I disagree. Starry-eyed geeks talk about cyber-utopia but all I see is a pointless acceleration of the same old same-old. Politically speaking, we've been moving backward. Socially, everything looks like a re-treaded version of the same old issues we've been dealing with since the 19th century. So what's entirely new? What transformations have you seen in the last decade or two or three?

Are you saying that you DON'T have the sense that we're on the verge of something? I do. I think global warming is pretty freakin' epic, for example. This little ball is getting pretty damn crowded too. If this latest financial collapse is as big as they say, it will be a new version of the global depression we saw in the '30s. Civilization is literally fueled by stuff that's running out. The collapse of these huge unsustainable systems seems to be converging, exerting pressure from several sides at once. It seems these are the kind of pressures that will really push events, force some real changes and it's about to happen whether we like it or not. 

If the apocalypse is "the time when things are revealed" then this would deserve the name. Now is the time when the inherent contradictions in our way of being are being exposed for what they are. Our unsustainable, hyped-up, gasoline-powered ego-mania is running way too hot and she's gonna seize up. Or fly apart.

P.S. Gav, on behalf of the American people, I want to apologize for the quality of the food you encountered on the road between Minneapolis and Bozeman. (Can't get a decent cup of coffee anywhere between them either.) That is probably the worst region in North America, foodwise. I should have made it a point to hit some of the restaurants when you were here in Denver. There are a dozen good ones right here in the neighborhood, some of which even serve American food. My back yard isn't too bad this time of year either. We had hundreds of peaches - our friends and neighbors each took dozens and the squirrels and birds were happy about it too. We've got grapes, eggplants and the pumpkins are already huge. There's a free-range organic rancher in southern Colorado, a Japanese guy with a parcel of land as big as Tokyo for his family and the cows. (Although, "Coleman" is the brand name.) Best steaks I ever ate. The difference in quality is not very subtle either. I mean, nothing else will do now. Normal beef is just downright bad by comparison. It's like I can taste their miserable, lot-fed, filthy lives. This is just as true for chicken. 

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