I rolled out of bed this morning a few minutes later than usual, flicked on the kettle and cracked two eggs into a pan of fresh melting butter. Im surrounded by the vast openness of the western plains that are so familiar to me. The warmer-than-usual winter sun just peering over the horizon, and streaming through my open window is pretty normal. A small mob of kangaroos graze a short distance from my house, and Ive got a busy day to look forward to.
Here, everything is normal. "Same same" as they say.
But I am aware that "normality" is increasingly becoming a blessing and a luxury.
Whilst the world has never yet been free from war and pain, for many of the children of the world the sunrise is marked with the unceasing clammer, the piercing noise and din of battle. They have no rest. No safety. Nothing is sure. Least of all their future.
Financial markets and the central banking system teeter on the brink of collapse. Bubbles everywhere are over-inflated and ready to pop.
North Korea works tirelessly to develop weapons for the sole purpose of destroying the US. They may have just arrived.
Tensions between Iran and the US are ratcheting upwards on a daily basis.
Highly radio-active water is being dumped into the ocean off the coast of Japan.
The list goes on for far too long.
The point is: Where are we headed here?
Why does the human race seem to repeatedly use its ability to learn, to build, to engineer and create, for the purpose of destruction? It seems we are determined to wipe ourselves out.
I have a feeling that our civilisation has arrived at this point many times before. Did we bring ourselves to the point of extinction then? Will we do so again? Are we already there?
Its a sobering thought.
To me, I see greed as the driver of calamity. The "love of money is the root of all evil".
Mans endless thirst for power and control is destined to destroy us if we don't change our thinking.
This is our story. Lets make it one to be proud of.
Links:
https://www.rt.com/news/397931-nkorea-can-hit-usa/
https://www.rt.com/news/396358-fukushimas-radioactive-water-released-ocean/