Boiling frogs- When the frogs are us
Boiling frogs- When the frogs are us
When boiling frogs, smart frogs jump out when the water gets too hot.
The age of minority unipolar rule is over.
The dinosaurs of the 21st century insist on extinction rather than adaptation.
So how many more birthdays is beloved planet Earth going to have when we cannot differentiate between evolution and devolution, as we court another mass extinction. The road to another mass extinction is becoming a five lane freeway paved with blood.
I have just watched the Netflix series Life on Planet Earth. It is an excellent series as it traces the history of the planet 4 billion years old. That covers a lot of territory, a lot of ups and downs, failures, successes, mass extinctions, a lot of failed adaptations, a lot of evolution and devolution.
It is very important that that we know the difference between evolution and devolution as it is very much about life and survival.
The series rams home the fact that life in any form on the planet has a very tenuous existence. Long before Man arrived on the scene the forces of nature and evolution came close to rendering a living planet, a dead planet. The planet we know today had a very rough birthing, with innumerable casualties along the way.
Given the history of the planet it appears our existence may have been an after thought, a frivolous gesture, by the cosmic powers to put mankind in the petri dish and see how we made out.
Given our pension for war and violence and the wanton persecution of others I am not even sure we are worthy of a frivolous after thought. We spend too much time blotting our ledger with the blood of others. We have suddenly turned into the new Sodom and Gomorrah hell bent on burying ourselves in the rubble of our creation.
Boiling frogs has suddenly become the great fetish of Western civilization( I use that term loosely), the problem being that we are the frogs in the pot and the temperature is rising in too many ways too fast and we just can’t take the heat.
When I say “we” I must qualify this as we are the frogs boiled but the our feckless leaders are the boilers turning up the heat in their crazed mania. Instead of orderly and pre-scheduled evolution-the natural order of things— they are running scared, full of fear and loathing. They are the dinosaurs who can’t have their way and are stuck in the gummy tar pits of their own making. They are the petulant children who can’t have their way, so they are just going to burn down the house and everybody in it. They are the blind leading the blind into the abyss, a failure of their ability to lead and accept the world is in constant change and this change is beyond their control.
They cannot come to realize that power is not absolute, and empire is never forever— especially when it is riven with corruptions and run by crazy ideologues tripping over bad choices, bad policy and ruinous ideologies. They start each day by pissing in their own shoes.
The world they thought was theirs has evaporated with time, change and evolution. Suddenly greater forces are taking over, closing in, and they have to accept they are a minority in a larger majority. They desperately try to claim the majority are malevolent forces on the march, but for the most they part are merely insisting on their right to exist and self-determination.
The dinosaurs of the 21st century insist on extinction rather than adaptation.
For too long they have suffered superior a chronic ethnocentrism, and overweening superiority that heaven and earth are theirs to have, claiming their manifest destiny, their exceptionalism, their racial superiority and their ruinous pagan version of capitalism. These fatuous claims are constantly used to justify their tyranny over others, their wars and their wanton sociopathy.
The underpinnings of their claimed superior, are rooted in greed, envy and megalomania.
They are completely blind to the fact other cultures have legitimate rights and values, often superior to their own, and those cultures have endured over many centuries. The is also known as a criminal lack of empathy for others.
Now we are seeing the calamity that comes with culmination and the day of reckoning. How long ago were the seeds of this calamity planted? We can go back hundreds and even thousands of years; or we can go back a hundred years. I choose the latter as most of that time as I have been a spectator to events, I have seen the before and I after. I have seen the decline as have so many other eye witnesses. I have seen the benchmarks shaping the calamity of today.
Decline ends in culmination, the great reckoning and it is upon us as the dinosaurs rage at the world with war and violence; subverting truth, teaching us to hate, vilify and scapegoat refusing to acknowledge the events, insurrections and harbingers they perpetrated. They tell us to blindly obey, strip us of our rights, weaponizing everything, and desecrating decency.
Boiling frogs has become the order of the day. Smart frogs jump out of the water and insist on their right to be free, escaping the sociopathy of the pitted dinosaurs.
Western leaders are lost in the wilderness of their denialism hotly pursuing devolution when they should be embracing progressive change, evolution and adaptation.
History has rendered its judgment and they are in contempt of court with their persistent criminality. At least the original dinosaurs had vertebrae.
The dark age of minority unipolar rule is over, and the world must move on to better times.
So how many more birthdays is beloved planet Earth going to have when we cannot differentiate between evolution and devolution, as we court another mass extinction. That road to another mass extinction is becoming a five lane free way paved with blood.
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