We only know the world we’re born into. Most of us were bored to tears in our history classes in school. At least I was. All that stuff that happened before my life began was like so many fairy tales. How could it apply to me? My concern, like all of us, is the here and now, the immediate present, this is what’s real, that which is happening NOW.
I was born about 3 years before the US got attacked by Japan, so to me, World War II is real and relevant to my life. To everyone born after the war was over, that is the world they were born into, one where there was no World War II. Likewise for those born after JFK was assassinated or after the Viet Nam war. Events that happened prior to our lives might as well never have happened because they never impacted us. Or so we think.
The truth is that everything that ever happened in the past, literally everything, has created this moment. You would probably not have been born if the Romans hadn’t invaded England. Everything would be different. All existence today was created by all the yesterdays.
My point is that we don’t see much beyond ourselves, not in terms of the world around us and not in terms of our very real and solid connection with the flow of events. If we want to know where we’re going, we have to be able to see where we’ve been before we came into being.
This is by way of following up on my immediately previous post. AOW left a comment that it was all doomsday scare talk. Not really. I was just following the flow of time. When I was born there was less than a third of the people on Earth that there are now, and then the War whittled that number down considerably. We humans have certainly made up for lost time though.
I’ve watched our own population become nearly overwhelming and all the destruction to our society that it’s brought, and seeing where that’s going is simplicity itself. The prediction by our government that Mexico will soon become a failed state is a likely one, and the cause of Mexico’s problems is overpopulation. That’s why over 30 million Mexicans have already flooded into the US. Their own country can’t support that many.
But that’s not just happening here, it’s happening everywhere. In fact, Americans are bailing out of the US, moving to Canada and anywhere else they can find more room. If we weren’t suffering from overpopulation we wouldn’t have had another 500,000 people line up this month alone for unemployment benefits. It won’t be long before our Employment Insurance systems collapses.
Just because something didn’t happen within your own personal span of years doesn’t mean it doesn’t affect you. It does. Everything that ever happened does, and the events of a 1000 years ago and more will continue to affect you and your children and their children for 1000s of years yet to come, and you’d be wise to take a good long look at the path that time has laid out for us all.
I learned as a boy that knowledge is survival. At one time you could go through your life from one end to the other, blithely unaware of what we like to call History, and probably do about as well as the next guy. That’s all coming to an end. How it’s going to end, I really don’t know, but I can see the flow of time, and the way our world is now is not the way it’s going to be, and soon. Look at it. Do yourself a favor.
It’s partly about timescale. “Our” society is whatever we grew up with and are used to, the real problem is when changes are on such a scale and at such a rate that we find own lives completely transformed. In the case of improperly controlled immigration from poor countries the short term (at least) changes are never good despite the liberal propoganda. Cheap travel and a globalist philosophy that denigrates any concept of nationality (for white non-Hispanic westerners anyway) just makes these problems so much more widespread than it has generally been in the past.
As for looming calamities, your commenter is quite right that our rulers overplay or even invent these things to keep us in line, you don’t need to be an expert on history to know that. But with 6 billion people and rising demand for every raw material you don’t have to be much of a mathematician to know that the calamity will come.
PS: 3 years before Pearl Harbour? You really ARE an old fart!
Your last couple of posts have been good reading. Over population is a huge problem.