It is a natural consequence of life. It cannot possibly be avoided. And despite our best efforts, it is a nasty, dark business. Death. D-E-A-T-H. Everything that lives must die. We all know it. Some of us embrace it and try to live in the moment. Others avoid it and continue to dwell on events that have passed and worry about those things that have yet come to pass. In the end, we all die the same way. The heart stops beating, the blood stops pumping, the oxygen disappears and then we're dead. It can happen quickly or very slowly depending on the circumstances, but at the end of the day -- or, rather 'life,' so to speak -- we all meet the same fate. Death.
Now let's kick things up a notch. Rather than talk about the death of one thing or one person, I think it is important to start talking about the death of humanity -- as a whole. The extinction of a species on a planet that has seen the comings and goings of many different species over many different eras. We will be rather short-lived, relatively speaking, due to our unique ability to bring about our own demise. Unless we change everything very quickly.
Human-fucking-beings. As far as we know, no other species in the history of species has been burdened with such things as consciousness, cognitive/intellectual/emotional ability, etc. For example, this is why dinosaurs roamed the earth for millions of years without too many problems. They were a dominant species and they dominated, naturally, for a very, very, very long time, as they should have. But, as we all know, shit DOES happen, and a huge asteroid explosion/aftermath wiped out the dinosaurs. The important thing to note here is that the dinosaurs didn't do themselves in -- they wanted to LIVE...the poor bastards.
Human beings, on the other hand, were born with a leg-up in the 'intelligence' arena, and within a relatively-few thousand years we've made quite a mess of things with due haste. We sowed our own demise the moment OIL met MONEY. If you were to look at any accepted world population graph, charting the growth of humanity from day one through now, it looks something like the chart below.
The beginning of that GIGANTIC spike on the far right of the graph coincides with the discovery and refinement of oil around 1900. That's when oil became the basis for the global economy. We are an oil-based economy. And we live in a monetary society. Do the math and you end up with these charts.
Maybe I should explain. Along with the discovery of oil as a source of energy came the reality of oil as a source of money. Humanity is addicted to energy, obviously, as everything we need to survive in modern society comes from some source that -- if you follow the trail, eventually you'll find it -- relies on oil for energy. That's just the way it is now. We're stuck with it. The problem is that 'oil' is a finite resource on Planet Earth. Fast-forward quickly to modern day -- All of the big oil companies, and agencies (OPEC, etc.) and governments and academics and economists know how much we've got left. And, as diligent human beings addicted to energy and money, we've been sucking, extracting, fracking, and refining the shit out of oil for over a hundred years now. It's in EVERYTHING, and I mean everything. Go educate yourselves, because weird shit is going to start to happen (oh, wait a minute -- weird shit is happening all over the world).
All the craziness going on in the middle-east has nothing to do with religion. It has to do with oil and money. They've got the most oil over there and everybody wants it. Because, remember, it's a finite resource (see above). The ONLY reason the United States of American Idiots has any interest in anything in ANY of the 'Arab' countries is because of oil. We need it, and we need more and more of it, and it's running out. Quickly. So, if it seems like all kinds of crazy shit is happening all over the world at the same time, it's because IT IS. You can call it what you want, but it is simply the natural collapse of a world based on oil and money. More on this later. For now, watch this:
