Do not know what the future holds...

Written on 27-12-11

The meaninglessness of existence....yesterday Tina’s friend and hostel mate was brutally shot down in Manchester. Within hours Facebook filled with likes and a video with his pics....body will take one month to reach his helpless parents on India.

The decline of the west....along with the rise of the BRICs and east...is having a searing impact on the west have-nots....those without jobs... evident by the increase in the number of beggars in downtowns of developed economies..

The sharp schisms in most advanced societies.....are tearing their very fabric apart....

The picture is not very good anywhere else...the world seems to be hurtling close to the edge....the hurtle is intensifying.... almost like an anthem....I have been singing for past forty plus years...

Now all is compounded by climate changes....like a voice crying in the wilderness.....

Do not know what the future holds. The worst case scenario is unfolding both on the climate front with extreme weather conditions becoming a norm and the global economy is teetering dangerously with most economies world over leveraged on debt and financial excesses. Is there no way out of this morass. Even the emerging markets are veering dangerously with their high populations eager to surge on all the energy hungry cars, air conditioning and other toys of mass destruction.

Human kind is bent on destroying itself.... suicidal.... Malthusian.... the living dead.... all going thru the motions.... of enjoying life...malls.... consumerism.... losing their capacity to be human.... everything is so plastic... the rock musicians sang of all this forty years ago.... now everything has gone too deep.... instant gratification..... is there no way out of this imbroglio.... perhaps only in death.... as if from one state of living dead to another...  zombie like we move forward to the future.... like the Hollywood sci-fi cli-fi movies.... celluloid to celluloid..... dust to dust and ashes to ashes...