Saving the world before bedtime?

[raybear]

I'm really not much of an alarmist or believer in the nature of the apocalypse, and yet....lately more and more things are happening in the world where I find myself thinking more and more "wow, that's the type of fcked up shit I'd see in a movie!" But it's real. Excrutiatingly real. And sometimes I just wonder if it's another notch, another tick on the doomsday clock. If our world really is on the verge of imploding.

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i thought i was the only one.......

[esquemeauxpi.livejournal.com]

i try not to really think of it as an "end of the world thing", but i do see the world getting fucked up more and more, and i always question what it could be a sign of.
Are people simply getting crazier as time goes by?
Are they egged on by some unknown force?
Why has the "it's my way, or it's the wrong way" mentality taken over the entire world?

AND WHERE DID ALL THESE RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISTS COME FROM!?!?!?

....kinda scary :(

Re: i thought i was the only one.......

[nineinchlovely.livejournal.com]

I definitely agree with your comment about the "my way or the wrong way" ideology. That's become wicked prevalent lately.

I'd say that the world has been fcked up for a good long time though, except lately we've found more precise and dastardly ways of offing ourselves and others and creating general malaise. Obviously the stuff about climate change putting NYC underwater is something new, but that's due in large part to the onset of the reliance on oil and fossil fuel usage and hacking the fuck out of the local flora and fauna.

I'd like to blame Dubya, but I think the problems started long before he did unfortunately. ;)

Maybe we're coming to the next revolutionary period..I read somewhere (can't remember where at the moment but..) that societies tend to have revolt/revolution and whatnot every 30 or so years. Hrm.

Re: i thought i was the only one.......

[esquemeauxpi.livejournal.com]

Maybe we're coming to the next revolutionary period..

i've read some things about how big time revolutions come around ever 2-3 decades, and that most of them start off with some type of assassination.\
It's just that any New World Order that comes from any of the insanity going on these days will probably be aweful thing. People seem ready to die & kill for their causes a lot more....i don't want these people to rule the world.

[brothernumber3.livejournal.com]

my roommate and i have been talking about this for about 6 months now
how the world is crumbling in on itseld, and not too many seem to be noticing

she and i are both conivnced that in the end this a very good thing.
because people cannot live under capitalism and dictatorship, we can get by for so long,
but i think that period of getting by is coming to an end

and thus, my long-held belief that useful revolution is inevitable

all you need really is to know that there are so many others willing to just say no to the shit... say no and mean it