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Photo by C.I.S.A.Others call it the end of the world. Each and everyday the news all around us gets more and more serious and devastating. A government that can’t govern its people, millions of job losses, and draconian laws being made so quickly that everyone will be in jail in the next 10 years. The Bible calls it the entry point into Armageddon, while others call it a societal breakdown.
The whole of society is breaking down. An accepted pattern and framework no longer exists, therefore we must return to "traditional standards" such as marriage and the sanctity of the family unit. The new criminal is even more dangerous than anyone can imagine. People are afraid to walk the streets because of the homeless, and many of them are on drugs. This is fact and not personal ideology. Check the statistics for yourself. But we are deep in denial, like a cheated on spouse who knows the sorry truth but tries their best to ignore it. In the last decade or so the spotlight of truth has swung this way and that, and one institution after another was suddenly exposed as being precisely as rotten as we always thought it was.
What's that? The economic boom is an unsustainable fantasy? Riot police can be a little "handy"? CEO’s are greedy? The (soon to be defunct) New York Times might have used underhand tactics to get a story? What next? Oxygen is tasteless? Pigs stink at poker? Children are overrated? We knew all this stuff. We just never had the details. What about each other? Society? Can we trust us? Doubt it. We're probably not even real, as was revealed in the popular documentary The Matrix. Made of pixels. Your co-workers? Pixels. You? One pixel. One measly pixel. You haven't even got shoes, for Christ's sake’s the very fabric of life breaks down around us, even language itself seems unreliable. These words don't make sense. The vowels and consonants you're hearing in your mind's ear right now are being generated by mere squiggles on a page or screen. Pointless hieroglyphics. Shapes. You're staring at shapes and hearing them in your head. When you see the word "trust", can you even trust that? Why? It's just shapes!
Right now all our faith has poured out of the old institutions, and there's nowhere left to put it. We need new institutions to believe in, and fast. Doesn't matter what they're made of. Knit them out of string, wool, anything. Quickly, quickly. Before we start worshipping insects.
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The whole of society is breaking down. An accepted pattern and framework no longer exists, therefore we must return to "traditional standards" such as marriage and the sanctity of the family unit. The new criminal is even more dangerous than anyone can imagine. People are afraid to walk the streets because of the homeless, and many of them are on drugs. This is fact and not personal ideology. Check the statistics for yourself. But we are deep in denial, like a cheated on spouse who knows the sorry truth but tries their best to ignore it. In the last decade or so the spotlight of truth has swung this way and that, and one institution after another was suddenly exposed as being precisely as rotten as we always thought it was.
What's that? The economic boom is an unsustainable fantasy? Riot police can be a little "handy"? CEO’s are greedy? The (soon to be defunct) New York Times might have used underhand tactics to get a story? What next? Oxygen is tasteless? Pigs stink at poker? Children are overrated? We knew all this stuff. We just never had the details. What about each other? Society? Can we trust us? Doubt it. We're probably not even real, as was revealed in the popular documentary The Matrix. Made of pixels. Your co-workers? Pixels. You? One pixel. One measly pixel. You haven't even got shoes, for Christ's sake’s the very fabric of life breaks down around us, even language itself seems unreliable. These words don't make sense. The vowels and consonants you're hearing in your mind's ear right now are being generated by mere squiggles on a page or screen. Pointless hieroglyphics. Shapes. You're staring at shapes and hearing them in your head. When you see the word "trust", can you even trust that? Why? It's just shapes!
Right now all our faith has poured out of the old institutions, and there's nowhere left to put it. We need new institutions to believe in, and fast. Doesn't matter what they're made of. Knit them out of string, wool, anything. Quickly, quickly. Before we start worshipping insects.
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