Four years ago today... and in the aftermath of this, the U.S. media called it the day the world changed forever. Was comedy even relevant anymore? Movies? Parties? And now, four years later to the day, the NFL season kicks off, NBC is launching its new fall lineup of sitcoms, and the only article on the front page of the paper about 9/11 was about how real estate is much cheaper in Manhattan than it was four years ago, and how in the post 9/11 world Manhattan has developed more of a nightlife.I think when history looks back on the U.S. empire, it will view them (and us, of course) as a people so distracted by momentary diversions, by football games and sitcoms, that we ignored the fact that the world was crashing down all around us.
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It is truely one of our most significant challenges, to be aware.
Four years ago, wow. Feels like only yesterday. I imagine that this will happen again. Humans blowing each other up, buildings being destorying, being rebuilt,being destroed being rebuilt. If there's one thing you can count on is history repeating itself. Change is constant, but that change is consistant in that it is repetitive and cyclical.
North America is disposable. Momentary diversions are also monetary diversions.
The world comes crashing down around us only to be rebuilt moments later.
Beware of self fulfilling prophecies.
Make new cycles!
But what is there to learn? Our mass hypnosis of sports and movie stars is what maintains our world. As long as the destructive reality can be ignored, this paradigm remains.
There are 2 futures I see:
1. The way of gradual change. There will be shocks of violence but they will be subdued and will be soon forgotten. Evolution of technology and culture happens relatively slowly. Without sudden shift.
2. The way of sudden shift. This can only come about through mass destruction. Not a few thousand in the towers. Not tens of thousands in a typhoon or war. This sort of massive global consiousness shift comes via massive bloodshed. Millions dead. This is the true nature of World War. Atomic bomb.
The destruction of those towers was very significant but only in a metaphorical way. Bloodshed is the true measure. This is what the Ancient Gods desire. Its numbers. Look at the stats. All these desasters and wars that we think of as being enormous are very much miniscule compared with the bloodbath of the holocaust and world war ii.
This is perspective.
For world war three we need a massive escelation. Iran would be pretty big. But for a true world war we need world powers opposing each other. Currently the idea is of Russia and China engaged with US quasi-European alliance.
Thats the prophecy. I could reference you to Nostrodamus and all the other bullshitting necromancers if you like.
As far as desire or personal will:
I ride the chaos train. I will accept any future. I desire for destructive apocalypse and rebirth into paradise. I could also go the way of gradual change. But I certainly do not condone Imperialism. That shit s got to stop.
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