2012, the year of DOOM (progression)

First off, please go to Dr Maxtors analysis and watch this very important video. I hope it opens your eyes.

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It’s commonplace now for people to review the year, but screw that, it’s been a rotten year for humanity. I’m going to look forward into an errrm, even more rotten future (I thought I’d get this one in nice and early, seeing as the new year ‘feeling’ is there and I wouldn’t have to ‘compete’ with all the other ‘2012 doom’  posts next year ;). It does amuse me quite a bit dreaming up of all the excuses that will come out when those who have choses to believe the Mayan calendar spin. Ho ho ho!) .

And this isn’t about the tiresome Mayan calendar thingy. Karen Alloy dealt with that rather nicely here. This is about the doom from our own failings, failings that we could overcome if we really decided to do it.

I know a number of highly intelligent very charismatic people who do a range of excellent deeds, such as those who conduct research into the global godless-isation (i.e. satan-isation) of our lives, others who’ve given significant parts of their lives to help the plight of the Palestinians, some who are trying to re-teach traditional sustainability concepts and skills for when the growing food crisis becomes too much of a problem.

As for myself, I have a number of interests. My self-critique says that by trying to be actively involved in many of the things which hold meaning for me, I end up in a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none type scenario, but output from each of the ‘jack’ elements, is not particularly effective and poorly sustainable/consistent (something else grabs my time). Hence I understand why people specialise their interests to a particular field, but many of these wonderful and marvelously dedicated people don’t get the results that their efforts should produce. Their results are very disproportionate relative to their applied effort. I put this down to one main factor. Their NETWORK / support group / number of activists is just too small and that is a result of apathy/selfishness/I’m ok ‘cos I’ve made it / look after No. 1 / kind of thinking, where living the alleged ‘comforts’ of this life are what life is all about.

I also know strong critics aware of the global banking scam do nothing about it and ridicule or rubbish efforts of others who do do something about it. I know very well read Muslims who hardly ever mention the slaughter of the Palestinians and the rapidly approaching destruction of Al Aqsa.

Al this it’s quite incredible and yet horrifying at the same time.

Meanwhile corporations continue to grow and use their massive wealth to buy up any significant competitors and end up with monopolies (you’re an idiot if you believe monopolies and mergers commissions prevent this. All they prevent is certain kinds of monopolies!) and practice fraudulent economics / market saboteur techniques almost totally intertwined with government and media. Most of this is sustained by dangling economic carrots in front of the eyes of the masses. Their eyes are transfixed on the lovely carrot, (made to look lovely by being lit with multiple flourescent bulbs and surrounded in dark green (plastic) grass, 70 percent of ‘unshapely carrots were binned in search of the shapely one to display; that 70 percent were mixed with domestic sewage so that the poor or homeless were not able to get it which would reduce demand and lower market price) they are unable to see that the direction they chase the carrot in, ends ends with a vast gorge, the gorge of doom. And many of the people aware of the impending doom, even though the have sympathy for the impending fate of the proverbial donkey, just throw rotten tomatos at those yelling ‘stop chasing that carrot!’.

If we as a species were truly advancing*, the success of these amazing activist people would yield multiples of the efforts they put in , not ever decreasing fractions.

My old chemistry lecturer used to describe equilibrium as sitting in a bath and trying to push the water to one side. The more you pushed the greater the force to resist what you did. The same principle is found in solenoids and so on. There appears to be a convergence in the field of science and social science/humanities.

I think they know this and surely get very frustrated at times, yet they persist.  Their human spirit and sense of altruism is just so amazing. The face they project as the inevitable doom approaches is simply Incredible and so admiral. And no matter what ‘goosebump’ of an effect we have along the way, at least we can stand proud that we did something.

It is better to have been an activist and failed then to have never been an activist at all.

* I apologise for the use of that word, but  my background – the one that put food on my plate – is one in which ‘advancement’/’progress’ etc words and concepts that are incessantly churned out to the near total exclusion of everything else, and an ethos which has brought about the reinvention of the wheel many times over.  It’s hard not to borrow their terminology, but it is useful, as no doubt it will be something that has been drummed into you too.

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