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RE: Something Feels Really WRONG About the World...
The last week? I'd say few years! The world has been going more and more off kilter as time goes by! Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Typhoons, Volcanoes, Tsunamis...Wars, Refugees...madness. Absolute madness.
The more it happens, the more people seem to want to close themselves off - Brexit, Catalunya, maybe Scotland soon. Who knows, all of Europe?
The world is going to implode!
Fear... lots and lots of fear, usually driven by the media. If you're not supposed to be scared of this, you're supposed to be scared of that.
"The end is near!"
Of course, people have been saying that for a really long time, but now we live in the digital information age, so news of the end immediately spreads to everyone, where before it was contained in some local town, somewhere...
Yes agreed on all points! For sure the internet has perpetuated the discovery and the reporting of incidents and it's much easier to follow things realtime with more accurate facts. But the weather, the disasters, it seems to be more extreme. Or at least extremes we've seen before, record levels, but we're seeing all the extremes in a shorter period of time!?
And the people, seem to be crazier.
But maybe it is just the access to the knowledge that makes it all feel "more" than before.
In some sense, it feels like there has been a "quickening" of life... whether it starts with the digital age, or goes all the way back to the Industrial Revolution is hard to say... but more and more seems crammed into less and less time-space. What;s puzzling-- and a little alarming-- is this notion that natural disasters are following the trend...
Are you saying it's alarm that people believe it...or that it might actually be true?