Runaway Trains Always Crash

 

Do you ever stop and take a genuine look at what is actually happening in your world?

I am not talking about the politics of dancing through your neighbourhood.

I am speaking about everything you see, hear and interact with during every millisecond of your existence.

The perverbial “Stopping to smell the roses.”

When was the last time you simply stopped and surveyed this high tech, high energy, highly inflationed, highly strung society we have constructed?

If you cannot answer this question without hesitation then I suggest you take that “pause” asap.

Our lives have become a cascading overload of stimulation.

Comparable to a runaway train barreling down a mountainside heading to the heart of a city.

“I hear that train a coming, it’s rolling around the bend.”

We have been purposely ignoring the Engineer’s blaring horn.

That locomotive is gaining momentum as city center nears.

This world we have constructed is a scary place.

The blame for the fright lies in our own laps.

In our bank accounts.

In our Mortgage Brokers accounts.

In our cowardness.

And definitely in our fears.

We stole “childhood” from our babies. Replacing it with technology and “Social Media” (Antisocial Media?)

Today’s youth live in a world that few of my generation are capable of understanding.

My generation experienced the invention of the radio, the television, the modern automobile and all the other wonders birthed during the industrial age.

We witnessed music’s metamorphic transformation from gospel based bluegrass to Jim’s Hendrix’s teeth chewing out “The Star Spangled Banner” at the Woodstock Festival of 1969.

We watched as our youth, both male and female, went into a frenzied blitz of pure excitement as four lads from Liverpool stepped off a British plane onto American soil.

That singular moment may well have been the catalyst of the changing of society as we had known it to be.

Perhaps being the day the downfall of “family structure” took its first steps.

Before the coming of the modern era, everyday life was far simpler.

Psychologically wise.

In the physical sense life was hard. Anything and everything we needed or wanted was “earned” – “worked for”.

Nothing came easily or without cost.

A copper penny was just as valuable as a gold coin.

Unlike today’s world.

We didn’t have multiple credit cards in our wallets. Nor did our homes have multiple mortgages. Belonging to the bank more than to families.

If we were blessed to own an automobile it was paid for with sweat stained dollars earned off the backs of hardworking people.

In today’s world we simply apply “on-line” for yet one more “loan” or extension to our “line-of-credit”.

It is suffice to say that the average person’s accumulated debts will become the unwanted inheritance that their loved ones most definitely did not wish to receive.

The lucky families are the ones whose relatives had afforded life insurance. (I often muse as to why we do not call those policies “Death Insurance”. For logic dictates that in fact it is a death benefit.)

The accelerated lifestyle of today has come with a conglomerate of costs.

Affecting all aspects of life.

We, literally, have become far too busy to find and enjoy moments of relief from the onslaught of modern day technology, financial stresses and worries.

Rarely do families share time with each other.

Time has become a commodity. A luxury that few can afford to waste. A luxury that has become a yoke of extreme stress upon our shoulders.

My question to the cosmos is,

“What is the rush?”

Why do we accelerate at full speed to be the first in line at the next red light?

What is the sense of us having a brake pedal if we are never going to depress it?

All this hurrying and stress has affected us, being “society”, in every possible aspect of living.

Society has lost its social foundation. The foundation that was built on trust, care, neighbourliness and cooperation.

Answer me this,

“Do you trust your neighbours, your government or your doctor?”

Better yet ask yourself this,

“Do you or can you ‘trust’ yourself?”

These were trick questions, for if you just asked yourself them then the answer was a hard “No”.

Stop and take a preliminary gaze at the world that surrounds you.

Taking notice of the numerous and often chaotic things about you.

The rush of the crowds on the busy streets.

The amount of complaints you hear from friends and strangers alike.

The military tensions happening worldwide. The numerous conflicts those tension based conflicts have caused.

The constant pressure to “earn more, spend less”.

The look of defeat on the faces of your fellow countrymen.

The brown haze that distorts the beauty of sunrise and sunsets.

Even the strongest of steel has a breaking point. When that break happens the consequences are severe.

This train is almost at the end of its track!

The resulting collision will be catastrophic beyond compare.

I pray that I do not come across like some hillbilly conspiracy theorist preaching the end of days, but I truly do believe that the end of days is coming.

I do not mean that the end of the world is soon to arrive.

I am referring to the end of “society”, this chaotic form of communal life, as we know it to be.

Albert Einstein once stated that there will come a time of man where we will be capable of developing technologies that work but we will not have the capability of understanding “why” said technology works.

(Oddly, Artificial Intelligence just came to mind.)

I fear that time has arrived.

The average person goes through life with rarely seeing the reality surrounding them.

They are trapped in the “tunnel vision” of the robotic trances of basic survival.

“Wake, Breakfast, Work, Lunch, Work, Pick up the children from Daycare, Supper, Bathe said children, Sleep and Wake to daily repeat the ritual of existence.”

What’s missing from the above list?

EVERYTHING!

Including living life itself.

Where is the time to cuddle with your loved ones after a long hard day of work?

Where is the time to gently caress your partner’s hair as your bodies succumb to relaxation?

Time has become such a commodity that no longer can you take that long relaxing bath, but rather you must take a “quick” shower.

That often supper must depend upon “Uber Eats” due to the lack of time in your schedule to prepare a proper meal.

We have allowed cable tv to become obsolete and with it we have lost the winding down of our hectic day while watching a “family” show with our “family”.

Those precious moments have become obsolete as, although we sit in the same room, we all are living in our own created realities.

Momma no longer plays bass. Now she “FaceTimes”.

Daddy no longer plays fiddle. He now plays “Digital Blackjack”.

Junior no longer bangs on the drum. He prefers to “TikTok” away his evenings.

Sister no longer sings. She prefers to lip sync along side “YouTubers”.

I am as much entrapped in the same world as I spend my evening manipulating this “iPad”.

I see a massive change coming soon.

We cannot continue to exist while ignoring how greatly we are “not” existing.

We can no longer ignore the present level of corruption within most governments.

We can no longer ignore the military tensions between nations such as Russia, China, India and the newly formed “Divided States of America”.

Tensions that I strongly suspect will soon escalate into war. Possibly Earth’s third and final World War. (There will never be a “fourth” world war.)

Take for instance the chaos that has consumed the once great “United States of America” since Donald J Trump arranged for Elon Musk to rig the electoral computers in Pennsylvania during the last American election. Something they both publicly and readily bragged about on election night.

The fact that Americans applauded both Trump and Musk when they admitted doing so says volumes about the society we have created.

Look at how one nation’s group of redneck, rampaging, uneducated, followers of their “Shepard”, (the MAGA’s), devotion to their obviously “demented”, narcissistic, pedophile wannabe dictator has affected the economy of the entire world.

The MAGA followers are the epitome of the definition of “Sheeple”.

Sadly, in my opinion, the damage they have done to American society is non-repairable.

When, and if ever, the American people decide that enough is enough, the previous United States of America will be obsolete.

It will be the “Divided States of America” . Divided into at least two, possibly more, new nations.

The division and hatred that the corrupt Trump administration has created between American citizens has forever changed not only The States, but more importantly, the way the rest of the world perceives of their country.

Not to mention all the other countries, many of which were once American allies, the Trump administration has attacked economically and, in some instances, militarily. (That’s a topic for other days.)

“What is the answer to stop this madness?”

The damage and chaos is great, too great!

We have no choices left to make the changes in time to save society as we know it.

There is too much happening in too many places to too many people.

It will take decades, perhaps centuries, before mankind evolves enough to achieve such a goal.

We are in the position of either all nations laying down their arms and demilitarizing their society and then work together to build a better more Utopian world or wait for the total collapse of life as we know it and rebuild using the lessons learned from the mistakes of our past.

That is ….. if we survive this present danger.

Time will tell.

Many nations and groups are doing their best to try and stop the train before it jumps off the rails.

An admirable but unrealistic endeavour.

The train is getting closer.

And,

We all know well that ……..

“Runaway trains always crash.”