Time Warp and Ecology: More Taurus Thunder...
There is one last factor of the current times to consider, and to my knowledge, it is a condition never before faced by humans, and I've never read about it anywhere. Each of us who can read is aware that there is an "ecological crisis" on the planet, words that barely reveal the depth of the situation. Some people (such as businessmen) call this progress, and for sure, some people are too ignorant to notice, and for sure, others know perfectly well what is happening and do not care because they are too angry or in too much individual pain to worry about collective events. Others are kind of thrilled at the prospect.
But consider this, if you want to get a sense of the real spirit of our times: we either think or know we live on a dying planet. We know that if corporate growth continues at the current rate of "progress," and if mass-consumerism spreads to China, Russia and South America (though this may not even matter), and if the population keeps growing at its current rate, we will pollute ourselves to death; we will shatter the ozone to the point where it cannot protect our skin, we will warm the planet and flood the densely inhabited coastal regions, we will poison the water and the air to the point where it's not safe to drink or breathe, and it barely is today. And we know there is no turning back from each successive step in this direction. We know this perfectly well, and most of us -- that is, about 99% of us -- do nothing about it.
Could it be that the very rush of life, the sense of fleeting time in the Western world, is merely the feeling of time running out?
But is not time always running out? Life, as we know it, is a temporary experience. The opportunities that arrive are temporary opportunities. Yet the paralysis and fear that we feel seem to be fairly permanent, and well-supported by collective values: peer pressure not to care, not to grow, not to be free, and to be scared but helpless.
the above by Eric Francis. more available at www.planetwaves.net
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