Madness, Mythology, Morality

It hardly needs to be said that we live in interesting times, compared to the past we cannot say definitively whether today's madness exceeds that of any past generation but I believe we can comment on the potential for worldwide consequence to localized mistakes. We are far more capable of fucking up everything than we have ever been before. I posit that developments in virtually every relevant arena suggest a shift towards a new Dark Age in our consciousness, despite the fact that many individuals and truth-seekers have fought so hard to maintain the loftiest of trajectories. Such a claim can not go unsupported, and so here I detail the evidence:

We, at least in the US, are growing more stupid and we're proud of it.



We are, in fact, less likely to trust our goverment and it's becoming
more difficult to do anything about it.


Our government is practically run by oil companies with no long-term plans for what happens when we run out. This while energy consumption and population around the world skyrockets.

Our media is in the hands of relatively few corporations, many with political interests or motivation to sell you crap. For this and other reasons the media has been uncharacteristically and detrimentally easy on the current administration

We live in a "free country" that has a higher proportion of its population in jail than any other nation on earth.

Take a look at the way we divide federal money. We spend over half of our money on the military, paying off debt (frustrating in light of the Clinton-era surplus) and funding a corrupt and inefficient healthcare system. Very little of our dollars goes towards education.

I could go on and on about these sorts of things, but in truth we are all already quite familiar with them. I do not propose any solution, but I'm mad as hell. I'm embarrassed that we've mucked things up so badly and further humiliated that we seem to be doing very little about it.

I would argue that our social consciousness has failed us. For a multitude of reasons we seem to look the other way. In a compartmentalized society I suppose its easy to assume that the job of administering the human experience must belong to someone else because our parents and bosses never suggested we do anything about it.

It occurs to me that, while all of these problems are worth working on individually, there will never really be any change without a revision to the social consciousness and a return of responsibility to the individual. To my mind, the only way to do this is through the increased efficiency of the transmission of ideas. More effective art, systemic encouragement of new ideas, and motivators other than the broken system of capitalism that go us into this mess.