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WHO IS NEXT
I would like to recommend the following web site to my readers called dropping knowledge. These folks usually have a very interesting opening page and the recent one is fantastic; a short video titled WHO IS NEXT. The slow motion apocalypse speeded up. Have a look. …>here
or watch it above… turn on the sound and turn up the volume!
“dropping knowledge invites you to ask and answer questions covering social themes of global significance. When you ask in order to understand, when you answer in order to share, this is what we mean by dropping knowledge”
From Asia Times
August 22, 2008
“It’s the year 2016 and a professional futurologist looks back at some unfortunate predictions made in 2008. He explains how the Chicken Littles were just as far from the mark about dramatic change as the Panglossian utopians, and that a different kind of apocalypse, the slow-motion kind, is what really happened to the world. – John Feffer (Aug 21, ‘08)”
That’s the lead-in for a most interesting article by John Feffer (co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies) titled Apocalypse Later…> go to article
What was of interest to me in the lead-in was the idea of a “slow motion apocalypse”. The idea that sometime things don’t just jump up and smack us on the head in an all-of-sudden manner. No great clap of thunder proceeds a sudden catastrophic destruction.
Instead, the terror comes in a slow drip, drip, drip… like the melting of the ice on the polar caps.
It’s slow. We don’t notice it.
Somethings we can’t notice.
Some we don’t want to notice.
Great changes are wrought in this manner.
Feffer’s article ends with this bit of wisdom and warning, it’s the “Goldilocks Apocalypse”:
“…we seek out the comfortable middle at our own peril. Not too hot and not too cold, not too hard and not too soft, it’s a strategy guaranteed to lull anyone into a dangerous complacency. After all, once you’ve made your bed, however comfortable it may be, you have to lie in it. And it’s then, after a few brief moments of self-satisfied sleep, that you’re bound to hear the scratching at the door.
The bears are home. And they’re hungry.”
