I was reading about the Australian wildfires. I light a candle for those who died and those of their relatives who are left to mourn for these senseless deaths.
And as much as the 20th century taught us about senseless death, the 21st century will be the worst ever, and maybe the last in human time.
The unemployment statistics in the US are the stuff of horror; the US is engaged in two simultaneous foreign wars, and at least another half dozen by proxy, including Israel/Gaza; the world is full of angry, disaffected, poverty stricken men and their numbers are going to swell. There are pundits predicting that the future will be determined by them….
When the barbarians came to Rome, they had military leaders. When the new barbarians strike, it will be from within, and they will have no more conscience or self-governance than a drunken teenager high on meth. Over the next 15 years, we are going to see barbarities undreamed of brought into our living rooms, and then into our daily lives.
See the lyrics for Leslie Fish’s No High Ground. I wish I could, the damned things aren’t anywhere I can locate on tha interwebs.